Acrylic Pour Painting- An Easy First Pour (If You've Never Poured Before!).

This demo is for those who have never poured before. I have found there are a couple of different kinds of people. The first group of people that I run across is people they've watched a million videos in Facebook land and YouTube land and everywhere else and they see these different techniques, recipes, advice, ideas and they get so confused and so flustered that they never even start. The other kind of people that I often see are the the bold people. They want to do their very first pour they want to do a six foot by eight foot in their living room but they've never poured before. So my advice to both those kinds of groups of people are to just start on say something small. You've got to get a feel for it because you can watch all the videos you want and study and do all the stuff and that's the way things are. Now people go to the internet for advice and answers. Back in the day before there was an internet you just had to just start. I'm going to show you something on just an 8 by 10 canvas. A great idea for your very first pour. Or my advice is to just try it start and do something small. You can always work up to something bigger later. You can work up to the divisions that you have in your mind later but there is no greater teacher than doing it yourself. So let me show you the easiest way to do a pour. I'm using my happy medium paint ready to pour. Another problem people have is recipes they hear about how do you mix paint to pour. I have I created my own happy medium paint ready to pour. It has everything in it that you need including silicone and it will give you cells and all you have to do is shake it up to mix the ingredients before you use it and just spend your time being creative instead of worrying about mixing and measuring and all that stuff. One more bit of advice before I start is like people have problems what color combinations to use. That's always a tough one. What some real simple advice I can give you is you can stick with colors that are the same like say for example a couple of different blues which I'm going to do today and also white and black are like free colors that I use in all my almost all my paintings. I always use white and I often use black. They're add-on colors that give you some nice contrast that will they won't conflict with any other colors you're using. Kind of a free color is gold which is a nice accent color so I'm going to use that today. My gold is called new gold. Here's the technique it's going to be real easy it's this is called a puddle pour. I'm going to start with my dark blue. I'm just going to pour some in the middle and then I have turquoise which again is another type of blue and I can pour some white. I'll throw a little gold in here maybe come back with a dark blue. So here's again it's just a puddle right now but I haven't done anything with it and you can see the cells are already coming up. So you can just have fun with with alternating between a few different colors before you do anything with it. Just let me see just go back and forth with your same colors. Not getting too carried away with too many different colors so you can see they're all kind of going to stay in the same family. Now I just want to I'm going to tilt it around now and let it start to spread. See and you're getting a feel for what happens here when you tilt these colors around and so it's starting to spread over more of the canvas. There's no pressure here because again you're just practicing. This doesn't have to be the greatest painting you've ever done you're just getting a feel for what happens here. I use little yogurt cups to prop my canvas up. So you can see with just a little more tilting with the tilting starting I'm getting some some of the blue that's popping up through the gold and you're starting to get some of the effects that everybody is seeking. One of the things about square canvas is reaching the corners. You can either pour a lot a lot more puddle than I did here or you can come back and hit your corners before you really tilt and I'm going to do that here with some black because that'll just give me some contrast and this will help fill in the corners once you really start tilting. I'm gonna do some black and I might even throw some white around here just to help fill this space. Again you're just playing here you're seeing how it goes. Now I probably have enough on here to get some complete coverage. What's cool about the white is the white sinks and you can see it sinking into the black. It makes some interesting effects. Now I'm going to go for more tilting and I'm going to get it to run over the edge. Turn it. You can see the shape start to change. You can let it run as far as you want and if you see something you like that you don't want it to run completely off you can stop and let it run back the other way. Your first few paintings might not be the greatest thing you've ever seen but here's here's another technique that I like to use as it's kind of a free fun thing you can do if it's if it's a painting that you're not going to keep you can do a swipe. Now I have done a lot of swipes with an offset spatula but if you don't have one of these the paper towel swipe is a lot of fun. I'm going to show you that with this painting here and we'll just see how you can do another technique. I'm going to turn it in the same painting and it'll give you some practice and you can decide if this is something that you want to do more of. I personally like swiping a lot. I'm going to get this to fill in right there's a little blank spot. Now I'm going to touch the paper towel to the whole edge you can see where it's touched the whole thing and I'm just going to drag it across. I almost always end up liking my my swipes. You can tilt it a little bit to let it let the shapes change but you can see it it's uh you really get some neat cells here and that is all there is to it. I mean this is so painless what are you waiting for if you haven't done if you haven't done any pouring yet this is a great way to start and just do a puddle pour swipe it tilt it and you've just broken the ice you've gotten your feet wet no you've gotten your hands wet. So I hope this helps I hope you'll give it a try if you haven't already it's time like I said there's no greater teacher than doing something yourself and you can then you're on your way to creating your own vision of the type of paintings that you want to do and if you would like to shortcut all the recipes you can try my happy medium paint ready to pour you can only find it at our on our website it's at happymedium.fun and if you need supplies I have a list of all my favorite supplies it's on my amazon shopping list page all the links are in the description below as well as my social media links follow me on instagram check out my other youtube videos there's lots of techniques about swiping etc. I have a playlist of all sorts of techniques that I've done over the last couple of years on my youtube channel so check it out thanks for watching please comment like subscribe if you haven't already and I hope to see your paintings soon