Acrylic Paint Pouring: 16 fluid painting projects & creative techniques

by Tanya Jung

Overview

Create 16 unique and beautiful works of art using a variety of fun paint pouring techniques.

Now it's easier than ever to create amazing art using acrylic paints! Paint pouring is the latest technique to take the art world by storm, and stunning and unique effects can be achieved by simply pouring acrylic paint onto a surface.

Discover the qualities of acrylic paint and the variety of mediums, gels, pastes and resins that is available to create a huge range of fascinating effects. There's advice on what tools you'll need, the kinds of painting surfaces that suitable for acrylic pouring, and how to dry and seal your finished picture ready for display.

After the comprehensive techniques section, which includes intriguing methods such as dirty pour, flip cup, double swipe, puddle pour, tree rings and dipping, there are 16 great projects to try - all with clear instructions, materials lists and step-by-step photographs. But there's no way you'll stop there - paint pouring is addictive and you'll soon be creating amazing works of art of your own!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782218463
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	07/14/2020
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,149,397
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Tanja Jung was born in Oettingen in Bavaria, Germany. She grew up in Munich and, as a girl, had a passion for photography and painting. As an artist, she is self-taught. She is increasingly interested in all art forms and has experimented in numerous creative spheres such as inchies, scrapbooks, tangle drawing, mixed media, drawing, pouring, and so on. She teaches in many of these areas.

In addition, she works in the specialist artist trade, holds training workshops in paint pouring and other creative techniques, and also works as a freelance artist.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Materials 10

The world of acrylic paints 12

Materials for acrylic pouring 14

Additional materials 19

After pouring 25

Surfaces for acrylic pouring 28

How to start 30

Techniques 32

Mixing the paints 36

Setting up the workspace 38

Projects 40

Dirty Pour 42

Dirty Pour meets Flip Cup 46

Black Beauty 50

Orange Dream 54

Light as a Feather 58

Perfection All Round 62

Pink Cyclone 66

Dream Pair 70

Pull the Strings 74

Crazy Rings of Colour 78

All In One Go 82

Paint Puffball 86

Flower Power 90

Neon Night 94

Colour Bath 98

Double Dirty Cup 102

Index 108

Acknowledgements 110