Acrylic Pour Painting for Beginners

So I've already added water to my acrylic paints in these little cups, and I've added Floetrol, which is this stuff here, Floetrol. It is really supposed to be used to smooth out latex paint, just so you can get from like Home Depot and stuff. So I added that to some colors already, but I'm going to add a little bit to my silver and to my purple. So that's right. So I'm just going to stir that up, and then all of my paints will have water and Floetrol added to it. So the water is just to thin it out so that it's fluid, and the Floetrol is going to help us create some cells and make our paint smooth and make it go further. So I have silver, purple, blue, and black that I'm going to be using. Okay, so I also have some silicone ready. This is just treadmill belt lubricant, 100% silicone. Okay, I got this from Amazon, and I have a cup, a disposable cup. So I'm going to start by just putting the colors that I'm going to use one at a time into the cup. I'm going to do first some purple. It's great to use things you can throw away, like plastic containers. I'm going to put a little bit of the silicone in, a couple drops. Let's see, let's go a little bit of blue, and let's do some more purple. So now I have my canvas on top of something because some of the paint's going to drip off, All right, this is a dirty pour, so I'm going to just place the canvas over top of the cup. I'm going to turn it over, tap it to make sure that as much paint as possible is coming down onto the canvas. And now when I lift it up, all the paint's going to come out, and some of it's going to probably flow over the edges a bit. So what I could do, I'm going to get a box in case I feel like I used a little too much paint. So to be safe, get some things out of my way. Let's move this over here. There we go. This way, if it goes over, I don't really want to make a huge mess of my kitchen table. Okay, we ready? Ready. All right, up it goes. Ooh, this is going to be a cool one. I really like these colors. I don't want to waste any paint, so I'm getting as much out as I can. The edges are going to be the sides that are the hardest for the paint to get to, so that's why I want to put any extra over there. All right, and you can see already all the cool cells we have from the silicone and the Floetrol. As I turn the canvas, more and more are going to show up. If you're afraid of getting your hands dirty, you could always wear gloves. Disposable gloves, cleaning gloves, throwaway gloves would be the best. I'm really liking this area here. I kind of want to keep a lot of those cells all in one area and not have... I'm just going to help the paint get to all edges of the canvas, though. And now I'm actually, I'm happy that I used the amount of paint that I did, because if I would have used any less, I think I would have had a hard time reaching all the edges. So you really do need a lot of paint to do this. There's one more thing I can do once I get this to all the edges. I could use a torch to try to bring a little bit more cells out, and it pops air bubbles, too, but too much might not be a good thing. I like this. I'll just do a little bit so that you guys can see. Two fingers, that's okay, until it dries. Okay, so now I'm going to use a butane torch. So I ordered this off Amazon, and you buy the fuel separately. And I'm going to just torch a few areas. I have the lights off so we don't have so much glare right now, but I don't want to create too many cells. I really like this part here, and I'm afraid that if I do too much to it, it's not going to look good. But let's just try a little bit in here. Oh, you can see right there. See how that's bringing out more cells right there? So let's turn it over here a little bit and see how that reacted. So it pops air bubbles, and I don't know, I guess the heat just helps bring out more of those cells. Over some time as this dries, more cells can come out naturally, too. So the heat is probably helping it dry a little bit more quickly in these areas. Put your hands on this for me. Put your hand underneath the cup. Ready? One, two, three, flip. Pull your sleeves up for me. Okay, lift it up. Wow. Okay, let's see what happens as we move this around. Look at these beautiful colors you've made. Oh my goodness. Do you want to hold on to this and try? Yeah. Okay, so you're going to just tilt it. Try not to let the paint run off of the board. Try to keep it on the board so when it starts to get running, like it's going to run off, then you tip it the other way. Right, so we let it like almost run off, and then we're like, whoo, back the other way. Yeah, look at your art. Look at that. That is something to look at. Wow. this epoxy resin. It's a quartet. I got it from Home Depot, and this is supposed to be for like furnishing tables and stuff, but I put it over my pour paintings because when you create a pour painting, it looks so beautiful at first when it's shiny and the paint's wet, but then as it dries, it kind of gets like a little dull. Here, let me see if I can show you. Okay, here's it. So here is the acrylic pour painting that I made. It's now dry. But now these ones here that I've added the coat of epoxy resin to, they're shiny. So this is the one that I made in my video. I added a little bit of glitter to it too, just in one area. And then this is another one. See how shiny and glossy? So basically what you do for epoxy resin is you have to mix up equal parts of these two two different liquids that come in. There's a resin and then there's a hardener. So two different bottles. And you mix up equal parts of them, all the directions, and then you pour it on top. And it will, if you use enough, which you need to, it will run over. So you've got to have something underneath, like a plastic bag, and you want to raise it up so that it gets a place to go. I could just use something to clean it up with. Use gloves because you don't want to get this stuff on your hands. It does not come off. Even when you wash it, it just feels like it's staying on. It feels disgusting. So definitely use gloves. Here's one more thing I want to show you. So this is an epoxy and acrylic paint that I made today. And I made this by mixing up epoxy, epoxy resin, and then I added, in different cups, I added just a tiny bit of acrylic paint to some epoxy resin. And I poured them as I kind of wanted to onto the canvas. And I also used a blow dryer to kind of blow around the paint a bit, and the resin, and it really creates these beautiful effects. I added a little bit to my silver paint and epoxy. Well, I hope you enjoyed learning all about pourpainting, and adding resin to your pourpaintings, and all the cool things that you can do with acrylic paint. Bye.