 Alrighty, as some of you may know, I've been playing with pouring acrylic paints. I am by no means or stretch of the imagination as an expert, and I will link Anne-Marie Ritterhoff's channel in the description below. I really do recommend that if you're interested in doing some acrylic pours of your own that you not only, of course, watch, like, share, and subscribe my video and my channel, but that you go over and watch her channel because she really does have some great information. Okay, I've already mixed up a few colors. I've got one more here to mix, and I thought I would stop and show you exactly what I do. So this is some, obviously, orange paint. This is Amsterdam Acrylic. This is Azo Orange. This is a semi-transparent, and I'll talk about that in a minute. That's important. So this is Liquitex Pouring Medium. I'm going to put, you know, I don't know, a decent size squirt in there of pouring medium. You want to do, like, 20-30% pouring medium. Not that I bothered to measure, I just put some in there. All right, mix it up well, thoroughly mixed, and then start adding some water a little bit at a time. Not too much. Do it slowly. Mix them in. You can't take it back. If you make it too thin, then you have to add more paint and more pouring medium. You can always make it thinner and add more water. So that's why I'm using this Squeezy Bottle, and I've got more control about how much paint goes in there, and that's way too, still too thick. We're looking for the consistency of light cream. So I'm going to keep stirring, I'm going to keep scraping down the sides of my container and keep adding it in until we get the right consistency. Now when you're picking your colors, no matter the paint that you're using, you want to use a balance of opaque and semi-opaque, and maybe even one transparent color. You get better results. It is really important that you spend some time, that's way too thick, that you spend some time and you get your consistency right, that you spend some time and do this mixing part. Turn on some music, your favorite tunes, and just start mixing up your colors. These particular cups that I'm using are actually from Q-Tips. They are from Dollar Tree, and they come in these containers that actually have lids so that if I mixed up a bunch of paint, I guess in theory I could just stick a lid on it. I don't know how long it would keep because I don't think it's super airtight, but I like the fact that they have these containers that I can reuse rather than throwing stuff in the trash. Some of you may know I'm not a huge fan of plastic pallet knives, and I did just purge a bunch from my selection. Thankfully, Michael's had some on clearance for 49 cents because I also really like the idea of having a just plain straight edged plastic pallet knife to do the mixing with rather than again using a bunch of popsicle sticks and putting stuff in the trash can. That's just about right. You want it to come off your stick, what you're stirring with in a continuous stream. It shouldn't be too watery, again it should be like the consistency of cream, like the kind that you put in your coffee, half and half. If it's too thick, it's not going to flow and it's not going to pour the way you want it to. A little bit more, that's just about right. So make sure you're continually scraping. As you see, I'm scraping the bottom, I'm scraping the sides and really getting it mixed in there. You don't want any lumps. Yeah, that's good, okay. Marie's got a lot of videos about mixing the paint, what you should, what the consistency should be and everything, so I do recommend that you go over and watch her channel. She has a new video called, I think, Instructions. So here's the colors I chose today. We have titanium white, Van Dyke brown, turquoise green, phthalo turquoise, alrylamide yellow light, I don't know how to pronounce that name, and azo orange. These two are Atelier Interactive Acrylics. The white is Dayla Rowney and the other three are Amsterdam Acrylics. All right, I am going to get a couple more pieces ready and I'll be right back. Now you want to do your pour over something that it doesn't matter if it gets messy because it will get messy. This is a cookie sheet lined with obviously paper. This is something I use just for crafting. It's never used for baking and we're going to use that. These are called plastic paint tripods and these come in a pack of 10 like this from the hardware store for less than $5 and they will just keep the canvas elevated off the paper so things can drip off nicely. Now I want to try repouring over this stretch canvas that I did once already and it's okay but this is not what I wanted at all and it's going to come out bumpy and it's not going to be smooth and flat because there's like glitter and stuff on here. That's okay. We're just playing. I do want these little feet though so they are on the wood and not on the canvas. Now for our paint. I'm going to push this just to the side right here. There we go. So I have another plastic cup. This is a bigger one obviously. Before we do anything now we want to take our paint and we want to put some silicone oil in it. This is 3-in-1 silicone oil from the hardware store. It's generally in my hardware store it's by the automotive department but you should be able to find it just about anywhere. I'm going to put a squirt like that into each color and there's a little bit more white so I'm going to give it an extra squirt and then stir it up. Make sure your consistency on your paint is still good and that it still drips off. So give them all a stir. Stir that oil in and it's important that you get it stirred in. The oil is what helps the paint kind of separate and cause the cellular pattern in the paint that we're all always looking for when we do acrylic pours. So it's kind of an important ingredient. One that I didn't understand about at first. So those are good. Before I do anything else I'm going to put my apron on because last time I did this I got paint on my clothes. So apron, apron, okay. Now I mixed kind of a lot of paint because I'm hoping that I have enough to do two pours but we'll see. I don't know if I'm going to or not. I'm still going to use to judging that and how much paint I have and pull that under. So we're going to take our plastic cup here and I'm going to start with the titanium white and I'm not going to pour all of it in but I'm going to put, I don't know, about that much. Then I'm going to go to the Bifan Dyke brown and hold it kind of up high. You can already see, can you see there what's happening in the cup? That's what you want. That means I did a good job. Okay, add some more white and a little bit more of each color. Now if you're like me and you're a mixed media artist don't get rid of the drop paper because that's got some great color on it. Alright so now we're going to do what they call a flip cup. So I'm going to lift up my canvas and I'm going to put it on top of my cup like this. My cup is about in the center and then we're going to flip it and we're going to put it back on our little stands and we're going to just leave it sit there for a second and let it chill out. And here is one that I did last night and this is on a wooden board. Some of the same colors, not all of the same colors. Really cool. Alright. Are you ready? I have no idea what's going to happen because this is not a smooth canvas so we'll see. Alright, you ready? Okay. See what's happening right there? That's what you're looking for. Now you don't have to move it around like I'm doing. I like moving it around. Some people who do pours don't like moving it around. I will tell you that don't move it around so much that you lose some of the patterns that you're getting that you like. Like I really like that so I'm going to stop and we're going to mix some more of the paint. I'm still getting used to how much paint that I need you know for the different pours and it really is kind of a guessing game. I don't have enough experience yet to be a good judge of how much paint I'm going to need. I probably should have just used all of this but that's okay. Live and learn, right? Okay, so now for this pour I'm going to do this. I'm going to go around the edges actually first. Let's take one of our palette knives and do that. Okay, I've got another palette knife here. This is what I mean about it being messy. So I want to make sure we get all of the edges filled in and that I scoop up some of the extra paint to fill in any holes that we might have. Make sure we get the sides and make sure I don't miss anything. See, messy. So I've got some extra paint. There's a part I'm not so crazy about so I'm going to pour some extra paint in there. Okay. Can I wash? Well, I'll not wash my hands. I'm going to just get the majority of the paint off. This is a micro torch and not only pops the bubbles, it helps some of the cells pop up but it also pops the air bubbles in the paint. So this is kind of an important part because all that mixing and stirring did create a lot of bubbles in the paint. You do of course want to be careful that you don't set your canvas on fire. Be careful when you're using a torch because you don't want to burn yourself or set your art room on fire or anything like that. I'm going to move it just a little bit. So there you go. I think that's pretty interesting. Oh, zoom out. Big surprise there's paint on my camera. So there you go. That is how to do an acrylic pour. This is a pretty busy one. It's not what you would call a calm at all but I think I'm okay with that. So I am going to try to, I do have some paint left over in my cup. So let's try to do something with the paint in my cup. Let me move some things around and I'll be right back. This other canvas that I'm not super thrilled with and I don't think this is enough paint to cover it but we're going to stick it on here anyway and see what happens. All right, you ready? While it's just sitting there upside down, I'm going to take what little paint is left in these cups and scrape it and put it all together in one of the other cups. I don't think we're going to get very far with it but we'll try. This does use a lot of paint but I think especially if you have some paint that you want to use up, this is a great way to do it and it's a lot of fun. You have absolutely no control over what happens. You know the paint is going to do what it wants once you stick it on the canvas. I find that challenging and I find that interesting and it's very intriguing but it is very messy just FYI. But what good art is not messy, right? So we'll just give that one or two stirs and see what happened here. There we go. That is pretty right there. I think that's prettier than the other one. Let's see if we can push it out a bit and what happens. So I'm really trying to make it stretch by tipping it. Maybe I wouldn't tip it this much but I don't mind what's going on with it either. I find it interesting. So we have this one which I think I'm going to pour in here. I'm not sure why I want to do that but I know I do want to do that. We're going to use this hopefully to fill in some of the edges. It's really messy. I think I said that already. I never seem to remember to take any of my jewelry off when I'm doing this and I always get paint in my jewelry every single time. Today's no exception just FYI. We're a little teeny tiny bits left. Now the pouring medium is going to make the paint so that it takes a really long time to dry. So when you get these done and you like them you need to just let them sit because yes they're going to take a really long time to dry. This is called swiping FYI. I love that. Alright let's see what happens when we torch it. I think I like this better than the other one. I got my torch at the hardware store. This is called a micro torch. You can also get like a crème brûlée torch at probably anywhere that they sell cooking implements. That will work. Again take all precautions. You are working with an open flame and butane. It's very flammable. It's really messy but I'm having a lot of fun. Alright so there you have it. There is a second one. I'm going to get a bucket and I'll be right back. So these are the two we just poured. They're still really wet but they're so cool. This one especially. These are the ones I poured the other day. This is from last night and this is the first one I did over the weekend. I should say the first one I did that worked. These both have gold in them. Gold paint. Just gorgeous. Some of these will be for sale on my Etsy store. So if you're interested in buying one keep an eye out over there or email me or private message me here on YouTube. My email address is in the video description. Don't forget to like share and subscribe. Check out Amarie's channel because she does a great, much better job at this than I do. I'm just learning. But she's got a wonderful channel so check her out and don't forget to like share and subscribe if you would like to join one of my Facebook groups and share art and a creative life with the rest of us. Your creative journey with the rest of us we would love to have you. I have a couple of different groups there in the description below. And if you want to send me happy mail support my channel by shopping in my Etsy shop. All of that stuff. Check out the description. It's all down there. All right. And that's it for today everybody. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself like play with acrylic pouring and have a great day. All right. I'll see you later. Bye guys.