Acrylic Pouring-Mixed Media Techniques with Katherine

Hi Everyone, it's Katherine here with an "acrylic pouring" technique using lots of Pentart Acrylics as well as the beautiful Down by the Sea paper collection.

Let the Sea Set you Free by Katherine Sutton

This is a fairly messy technique - but it is great fun and gets super results.  To set it up I used a tray, covered in a plastic bag and several plastic cups to mix each of my paint colours in.  I used Dark Blue, Silver, Pink, Teal and Light Green acrylic paints - which are a thick acrylic so I watered them down with some of the Dekor Primer that Pentart has so that they were a thin cream-like consistency - you don't need a lot of paint as the pigment is quite strong, so I used about an inch long squirt of paint.  I also used some of the new Delicate and Glamour metallics in greenish silver and purplish silver as well as the rich gold glamour paint - again I thinned these with a bit of the Dekor Primer too.

I had quite a rough canvas board - you need your base to be something that doesn't warp with all the paint and water.  I then balanced it on some upturned cups so that the paint could run off onto my plastic covered tray - you need it to be flat so you can control how you tilt the canvas and where the paint ends up.  As the canvas was so textured it meant that I got some cracks on my pour which I really like, if you go for a smoother surface this doesn't happen, it did make me wonder about adding some crackle medium under a pour to see what happens.

For the first step I created a few blue puddles on my canvas.

I then added some of the greens in the centre of my blue puddles and then added lots of different colours around the canvas.

I put the edge of paint brush through the paint in a grid type pattern, just to start the mixing, then I tilted the canvas gently and just let the paints run into each other and some will run off the canvas onto the plastic tray.  I did use my paintbrush to encourage paint into the little areas of dry canvas you  can get.  You can also add more paint, at any time whilst it is wet, if you don't think you have enough  Once the canvas is covered in paint just leave it to dry

This is what it looked like after all my titling - I added a few drips into the top of the purplish silver, and little flicks of greenish silver in the bottom corners.  I then left my canvas to dry overnight.

Once dry I started to decorate it.

I used the Mandala die with the Sea Lagoon paper as well as a few flourishes from the Fanciful die set, and added some of the Earth Zinnia flowers in the bottom right hand corner.  I added some 3D balls and also 3D powder, dripping Gold Glimmer Mist on them and adding a little bit of the Rich Gold glamour paint too.  My sentiment is from the Noteworthy collection as well as the pink seahorse.  I added a few gems just for a little sparkle.  In the top corner I repeated a similar range of embellishments.

The paints have a really nice glossy effect and beautiful shimmer.

I added a little bit of silver wax paste around the edge of my canvas and extra gold glamour paint around my embellishment clusters.

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper - Down by the Sea - Sea Lagoon

Noteworthy - Down by the Sea

Dies - Mandala and Fanciful

Glimmer Mist - Gold

Blossoms - Natural Earth Zinnia

Jewels - Double Dot Citrus


Pentart Supplies:

Acrylics - Dark Blue, Silver, Teal, Light Green.

Gesso - White

3D Powder

3D Balls

Glamour Paints - Rich gold

Delicate Acrylics - Greenish Silver and Purplish Silver

Wax Paste - Silver