- I think if I wouldn't
have ran out of canvases, I would still be pouring the colored paint over the canvases. (beeping) Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. I recently told you guys
that I really want to focus on learning and trying
other things in 2019, so I get out of my comfort zone more often when it comes to art, because sometimes, we tend to stay in our little comfort zone because we're just too comfortable and sometimes we are also
a little bit too afraid to do something more advanced
or a little bit scary. Ah! (beeping) So many of you guys kept recommending me to try acrylic pouring. We're going to do this together today. And because I really needed
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videos about acrylic pouring that I've watched on
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supporting this channel. I've got all the things that
I need following the tutorials I've watched on Skillshare. One of the things, the main things you will
need is pouring medium. 'cause I will be experimenting
with different techniques, I also have silicone
so we can create cells and stuff like that; also a torch because it helps
to create the cells we need, a little bit of water, and all the basic like Popsicle sticks and cups to mix the paint. All right, I'm nervous,
but I'm super excited, so let's begin. In the tutorial, she said we need one part of this acrylic pouring
medium, and then we need paint. I will use the turquoise
green, 40 of that, and mix this very well. So since it's a little bit too
creamy like, it's not poury, I will add a little bit
of water as she said. So it kind of needs to be liquid, but shouldn't be too liquid. I feel like this paint
is just way too thick. That's why I need more of the liquid, and I think it also depends on what type of paint you're using, what type of acrylic
pouring medium you use. So the recipe can be a
little bit different. That's the first color. I'll be just mixing more paint and then we can finally create the first painting. If you're not sure what colors to use, you can look for some color
scheme inspiration online. I would rather start
with a few colors first and see what I can create
and let's hope for the best. Okay, so to minimize the mess that is going to happen now, I have this box. I place this old Tupperware
inside and now I can just place the canvas on top so it's even. Because you will have
to move things aground, I also have some gloves which
we are going to wear now. Let's start. So the first technique
is puddle pour method. So basically, we just want
to create small puddles of paint and then you want
to add more paint on top. Now here, I didn't follow
any particular order. I just poured in the same
color one after another, straight inside the previous puddle. You can use lighter colors
in between the darker colors so they're a little bit divided or you can just simply play around with
the different variations just to see what way you prefer. (bell chiming) All right, now we can move it around. One of the things I realized later is that I used too little paint. That's why it was a
little bit more difficult to spread out the paint
all over the canvas. It looks funky! (laughing) Even though you can't completely control the way the paint moves around, you can still look out for the
pattern and the composition you like and then you can just stop. (lively music) If you are stuck somewhere, you can just add on a little bit of white paint to the edges. Wet paint on the edges
will help the paint move over the edges and the
corners a lot easier, kind of like the wet on wet
technique with watercolors. We getting somewhere. Really pretty, don't you think? Okay, I think it had
enough moving around so now we can just put it aside, let it dry, and then we can move on
to the next technique. The second technique I wanted to try out is the dirty pouring technique. So in this technique, you
want to pour all the colors you need into one cup and then you flip it over onto the canvas. You can either pour it on to the canvas or do the dirty flip cup. Here you want to start
with the color you want to have on top and also, let's add a little bit
of silicone this time. So here, you have the
silicone for mechanical stuff, but I think you can also use hair products that has silicone inside. So what we need is, if this even works. All right, now we need to
spray the silicone thingy into the, add a little bit
of silicone drops inside. All right, now I want to
add everything into one cup. Let's start with white, 'cause I want to have the white on top. Then you can pour in
all the colors you want, one after another, on top. Okay, so nervous; quick, quick. Okay. Once you've poured in all
the paint inside the cup, place your canvas on top and then flip it. Pow! And now just remove the cup. Ah. (lively music) Hmm, the cup looks really pretty. I think it looks really
pretty when the paint runs over the edges as
it creates a natural, put-together look. Even though I think having
some uneven drips of color on the edges will make the
painting look more real and hand-made rather than making it look like a print on a canvas. Now I need to kind of activate them. (torch whirring) I really like how this
turned out with the cells. There's a little bit of
pink, a little bit of green. Very earthy and maybe
this time we can create something that looks more like the ocean. We still have some canvas left, so, we can experiment the whole night. Let's test out more. The next technique I want to
try out is the swipe method. This time, we will try
to recreate an ocean. Now we need a lot more paint, so I already have a little bit more white; now we just need a
little bit more of blue. So I will just use this green
and mix a little bit of blue inside and see how that goes. All right, so now we
just need our trusty box and a new canvas and then
we can start testing. I'm super excited. We start with the lightest blue, the darker blue. Here we will add the white. You can use spatula thingy or
try the paper towel method. You just swipe it like that. I hope this works, I hope this works. I'll use a bigger towel. Okay, wish me luck. Here, I place the paper towel very lightly on top of the white paint and then I carefully move the paint that the paper lightly
grabbed from the lower all the way to the upper
part of the canvas. Since I felt like there
was not enough white paint to create the cells, I repeat
the same step in the hope that I will move a little
bit more paint to the top but it rather created something that looked more like a wave. I think it's gonna look cool with this, like a new wave or something. All right, now we need the torch. And with the torch, we'll
create beautiful waves. (lively music) Now heating the silicone
created the pattern only very slowly so I wasn't
sure if I did something wrong. But as it turned out, I
just needed to be a little bit more patient and just give the paint and the silicone just
a little bit more time. (lively music) It's actually so cool. The longer I look at
it, the more I like it. (lively music) (torch whirring) Okay, you shouldn't put
too much fire on top. (lively music) It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Okay, I think that's enough. What else could we make next? Now since you played around a little bit with the different techniques, now I really want to be
more bold with the colors I choose and really see what I can create with all the techniques I just tried out. Now for my next painting,
I'm going to use a purple, a gold color, a pink, a red, and a white, and I will only add the
silicone into the colors and what I just discovered
is that in my spray, you can spray it like that, but
you can also use this thing. So what I did, I took a small bottle and then just sprayed this inside. So now we just need to
mix it together and then we can deal with the magic. After I discovered how to
actually use the silicone spray, I think I went overboard with the amount of silicone I added, so I got way too over
excited and completely forgot that the type of pouring medium I used that if you use too much of
this oil, the paint can crack. Ooh, my God, it looks so pretty. (lively music) Since I couldn't stop myself
from experimenting even more, I tried even more color combinations, and ways how I could apply the paint. (lively music) Really fun to just play around with paint and you don't really
know what will happen. So it is just really fun
to just to train yourself to let go and just have fun. (lively music) ♪ Enchante ♪ ♪ Enchante ♪ Can also probably do multiple layers. For example, if it's an ocean scene, maybe you can create the
sand first and then do this technique on top so
to create a beach scenery. I think it will be super fun. Now I just need to let it go
and let the paint do its magic and then come back and
see what it created. So excited! And since I had lots of paint left from all the experimentation, I tried to use them all up on one canvas. I used the puddle pour
technique and just went crazy with the color combination. It's now had enough paint for sure to make the distribution process easy. I was really curious about
how the painting will look in the end as we kind of added way too many different colors, but who knows. Maybe this will actually look pretty cool. But since the colors look
a little bit too saturated and bright to me because
there was just way too much going on at the same time, I really wanted to see
what else I can do with it. So I used a pallet knife
and used the swipe method to see if I can bring
out some of the cells. (lively music) It feels adventurous right now. And I also added a little
bit of white on top so I can mute the colors because they were way too elaborate for my liking. (lively music) As you can see, there are so many options and depending on which
technique, which colors, and on when you stop playing
around with the paint, you can get such cool color patterns. (lively music) All right, so this is the final version. I think I won't change anything. And since I didn't want
to waste all the paint that was in the card box, I used one of my leftover canvases and a few sheets of watercolor paper to get the pattern on top of them. And they actually turned out pretty cool. Okay, it's in the middle of the night and I had to stop myself. I think if I wouldn't
have ran out of canvases, I would still be pouring
acrylic paint over the canvases. And I still think I have
some in the basement. But anyway, we have a lot of paintings that we created today. You just need to wait until they are dry and I am super excited because I think I already know what's my favorite. So see you in a bit. All right, so it's been
two days and the paint has finally dried and
this is what happened. (dramatic music) Cracks on every painting
where I used silicone. Obviously, you really
shouldn't use silicone with this type of pouring medium, which kind of sucks because you are kind of limited to what you can do. The pouring medium stated that the usage of too much silicone can cause cracks but I didn't think I used that much. I guess you need to skip
the silicone entirely if you want to use this
type of pouring medium. I still really love how
the paintings turned out, even though they have lots of cracks. The other issue were the air bubbles that I couldn't get rid of completely. All the remaining air
bubbles popped eventually and created small holes here and there. Next time, I will just
do this before I mix all the paint together so I can get rid of as many air bubbles as possible. As you can see, I still need
to experiment and learn more about acrylic pouring, but at least we got all
the mistakes out of the way so we can improve from here. Let me know in the
comments if you would like to see a follow-up video where we actually make perfect paintings without any cracks. But I really liked how
the pattern turned out that created by just
placing watercolor paper on top of the excess paint in the box. I didn't expect that at all. You could frame that or
use this as a background or color paper for future projects. All in all, it was
really fun to experiment and to play around with the paint. You never know how the
painting will look in the end. Don't forget, you can get two free months of Skillshare Premium with the link in the description box down below so you can learn anything you want. I think I will finally learn how to paint with oil because it was
on my agenda way too long, but at least now, I have some
experts I can learn from. I really hope you enjoyed this video. Give this video a thumbs
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