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Rainbow Acrylic Paint Dirty Pour on Canvas DIY Tutorial
Just similar finding the mythical pot of gilt at the terminate of the rainbow, this pigment pouring technique is gold! Mix pigment amongst a dash of magic together with created a celled rainbow on a gorgeous blank canvas. I love pigment pouring! The effects are then amazing together with stunning. This tutorial is great for beginners...this is my tertiary pour! Get the supplies needed together with teach pouring!
Big beautiful cells shape inwards diverse rainbow colors adding to the uniqueness of this piece.
Here's a video tutorial of the process:
Check dorsum hither for the supplies needed together with teach to function on your ain function of art.
Fill each loving cup amongst 2/3's of Floetrol together with a daub of pigment inwards rainbow colors inwards each cup. Fill a large loving cup amongst Floetrol together with white paint.
Use a stirring stick to stir inwards all the colors evenly. Then add together 2 drops of silicone lubricant inwards each cup. Stir inwards thoroughly. Check the consistency...it should drip similar warm honey. If it's equally good thick add together a twosome drops of H2O at a time.
Place a prepped canvass on laissez passer on of a loving cup over a plastic purse or disposable surface. I used a board canvass together with equally it dried it warped a little...used venture forest boards or stretched canvas. Pour a bunch of white pigment on the canvas.
Spread the pigment some amongst a brush or putty knife.
Pour colored pigment inwards a large plastic loving cup inwards a bullseye pattern. I went correct inwards rainbow order, get-go amongst red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, imperial together with pink.
Slice a stirring stick through the centre of the bullseye inwards an X shape, that's it.
Take a deep breath together with mean value happy thoughts.
Then pour the pigment out on the canvas. I used a diagonal displace from the bottom corner to the laissez passer on corner. I love the ribbon-like effect. Then elevator the canvass amongst your hands together with tip together with disputation the canvass to deed the pigment around.
Add to a greater extent than white on the corners is needed. I love how it turned out! The vibrant colors together with bubbly cells are perfection.
And that picayune rainbow squiggle is my favorite!
Now the difficult part. Let it dry out overnight together with to the touch. Then house it on a shelf, inwards a box, out of the way...and permit it cure for three weeks. The slower it dries the better...if white pigment dries equally good quickly, it has the possibility of cracking. Don't oestrus it up...just ready it aside together with forget it for a while.
After curing the pigment is irksome together with matte. It needs a wonderful coating of resin or varnish. Finish it off amongst a high gloss upshot to convey dorsum the vibrancy of the pigment colors.
Let the resin or varnish dry out completely.
Then frame, mountain or hang on a wall! This is the gilt at the terminate of the rainbow! This is definitely a slice you lot tin dismiss practise too!
