(77) Acrylic Pour on a Budget - Part 2 - First Painting

Okay, so if you're watching, in my last video, I just went over acrylic pouring on a budget. I broke it down based on the money that I spent for how much it was going to be to do two different paintings. It's less than $10 per painting. So if you'd like to see that video, check that out. I'm going to use some of my colors for two different paintings. So I'm just going to open these up. I have canvas that are 7 by 14 inch. I really like that size. I haven't poured on these before so I'm going to try this out to see how it works. I got from Walmart along with my cups and stir sticks. I got Mod Podge from the dollar store which I'm going to be using as my pouring medium. I have a little bit of water to help thin the paint. These craft paints are already quite fluid so you don't necessarily have to add a lot of water to them but I like to make sure that they're the consistency that I like so I always have some water available. And then I have just a plate that I'm going to set some cups on and then well actually I don't even need some cups but this is what I'm going to use also from the dollar store to catch my leftover paint. So I'm going to set one canvas aside for now. Three cents a piece. First ones that I'm going to use are some teal colors and a purple and then I may light beige depending on how I feel I'm going to mix it up because I'm going to use it in another painting but I do want to show I have people ask how I mix my paints so I'm just going to show that these cups are a little bit smaller so we'll see how much I can fit in them and to mix colors together to get the shade that I like so I'm actually planning on the purple I'm not going to mix anything with it. As you can see it's a little fluid but not it may need just a little bit of water especially since I plan on adding some Mod Podge just to help it go a little bit further. Especially on a 7 by 14 I want to make sure that I have enough paint to cover my entire surface. So as you can see I didn't add a ton of Mod Podge but I added enough just to give it a little bit of help it go a little bit further now it is as you can see quite thick so I will be adding some water to help thin it down and get the consistency that I like so I'm going to add just half my stir stick for each cup get some of my supplies out of the way there's a little bit of purple paint left I used probably two-thirds of the bottle from the weight. That's what it feels like. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to use up more of it. I might save it for now. I do want some of this Key West. I like that color. And what I'm going to do is actually mix. I want to darken it up just a little bit. So I'll mix a little bit of this Tuscan Teal with it and see how that looks. And I like that a lot. That's actually similar to something that I mixed up last week for a painting. It's a really pretty color it's not too bright and it's almost when you mix the two together it almost has like a soft gray tint to it and I really like that it's not too bright but it's really pretty so I'm really happy with that one let's do one more probably a little darker and I'm going to add some of this cloudless color to it it is a more of a light blue it's not as much of that turquoise green that's still really pretty it's nice and dark still that blue lightened it up a little bit but as you can see this one it has that more green tint to it and this one is more blue I like the differences so I'm going to just keep those as is so I may just because of the amount I'm going to mix up a little bit more paint here to make sure that I have enough since I have a larger canvas and like I said to make it go a little further we're actually going to mix up just a little bit more of this color too so we have a decent amount of each of them to make them go a little bit further i'm going to add some more of that Mod Podge and then i will add water to get the consistency that i like and once i get most of that poured out what i tend to do is add water and shake it around just to get as much paint as i can out i don't want to waste it so even if i don't use it this time around i still have paint left in some of these bottles so i stir it i also scrape the sides to make sure that i'm getting all of that color integrated in and i'm going to add a little bit more of this Key West color and lighten this one up just a little bit keep it that more greenish teal instead of the blue okay so i have those and then i already added a little bit to the purple i'll add a little bit more so this bottle i'm now calling empty it actually looks pretty empty so I'm not wasting any and if I don't spill it are some air bubbles in it from shaking but what you can do is really lightly torch your painting after to help get some of those air bubbles out and we're just stirring to get all that color mixed in with the paint and then adding water to the Mod Podge I actually don't know I don't think I'm going to have to add too much more water to these that seems like it was just enough that my consistency is pretty good that's about where i like it some people compare it to honey or heavy cream this one may need just a little bit of water it's a little bit thicker so i add water slowly i'll put a little bit in mix it together get it all incorporated and then decide if i need more water i don't add a lot all at once because if it gets too thin then you're just going to have to start adding more paint and you can mix up a lot more than you want to use that way and just a little bit more that's pretty good just a little more so we have our two colors here still debating i really like this one but i i think they're too similar so i'm going to add just a little bit more of the lighter color i don't want them to completely blend together when i pour i do want some contrast so we'll add this in and then if you have other colors of paint if you want to lighten it up even more you could always add in white to help I'm not going to I'm going to keep it with what I have from my acrylic pouring on a budget video and then since I added more paint I'm going to add just a touch of water to help thin that down and as you can see I am very messy and spill on myself a lot but that happens it's okay okay so I have those two colors mixed up I'm going to set them side and do the purple and then I'm also debating I think I want one more color but I can't decide if I want a darker I think I'm actually gonna go dark I'm going to use some burnt umber I think that's gonna be really pretty and give it more of an earthy tone with the colors that I'm already using I'm not going to use too much I think I want that purple to shine through more than the brown but we'll have enough here a little bit of the Mod Podge kind of move those out of my way and now we are going to pour so I have my plate here just to kind of try and catch some of the paint and how do we want to do this I think this one is going to be a dirty pour and the next colors that I may do in the next video I'll with the paint from the acrylic pouring on a budget video I have another set of colors I think I may do those as either a dip or a flip cup so I'm actually going to do two pours especially since these are all the same size cup I don't want to overfill them too much so I'm going to do two and just pour your paint in however you want to and whatever layering oh that's really pretty already those colors mixing and if you have leftover paint, save it for something else. Don't throw it out. Don't add too much paint to your canvas. If you have leftovers, find something around your house to pour on. I always save paint since there's so much liquid in it. You can save it for a couple of days and you won't have an issue. Sometimes I use mine after a couple of weeks and if you just add more water or pouring medium to it you can really get it flowing again so it just depends if you have a place that you can store it and save it I would recommend doing that and I can already tell I'm probably going to have some leftover paint I'm probably going to have a little bit of purple so I'm going to save that to pour on something else and I'll have a little bit of the teal leftover but I do want to make sure that I have enough paint for my canvas I definitely think I will so what I'm going to do now is just take one of my stir sticks and just do one stir through it you don't want to sit there and mix it all up or else it's just going to turn into mud but I do like to give it oh that's really pretty I do like to give it a little swirl and now we will pour and tilt and one at a time we're both together we're going to do both together that's really pretty so you can tilt this any direction that you want I'm going to try and keep most of it over the plate not all of it will be over in that corner oh shush buddy just a little bit that way and then i'm gonna stop i really like this so my paint was thick enough that i have really good coverage around the edges even though i'm using craft paint i have some really pretty designs in here i'm a big fan of the kind of stone earthy looking striations so even though i did a dirty pour I still got some of that design really well. I'm hoping that I can do something similar with the other colors that I have but for right now I am going to leave this one and wash my hands and then get the camera down and take some pictures. Thank you!