This acrylic pour with an owl embellishment is an example of using acrylic pouring to enhance realistic work. Acrylic pouring is so versatile, that artists can easily incorporate it into pieces to amplify their work. Pours lend themselves beautifully to dreamy, surreal backgrounds for skilled artists to paint realistic scenes on top of (like the owl below by Brenda Bennett). The advanced artist can also benefit from paint pouring.
POURING PAINT ON CANVAS HOW TO
With acrylic pouring you can isolate color related skills and learn how to use colors in interesting ways to see immediate results rather than needing to master all the skills at once. This can be difficult and take a long time. When learning to paint realistically you have to learn form, color, medium, lighting, shading etc. Pour painting can help artists learn color theory before moving on to other techniques.Many people do pour painting just for this purpose and don’t care about the results nearly as much as the relaxation the process brings. Just watch some YouTube videos of pouring and you’ll already start to feel the relaxation the technique brings. The process itself is cathartic as the paint flows across the canvas and gentle tilting creates new shapes and designs. Pour painting is a great stress relief and is fun! Paint pouring offers a medium that is forgiving and beautiful.
With pour painting absolute beginner artists can still create beautiful pieces that inspire them and others relatively quickly compared to more realistic focused art forms like sketching, or watercolors. Creating art can be a mental hurdle for some as they find it hard to express themselves, and many beginner (and advanced) artists are overly critical of their work to the point of discouragement.
POURING PAINT ON CANVAS PROFESSIONAL
One does not need to be an artist, have received professional training, or even picked up a paint brush to begin creating art with this technique. Pour Painting is the perfect art form to start with as a new or aspiring artist for a few reasons: Abstraction and a love for the mixing and mingling of colors really sits at the heart of pour painting, and the dance that each color performs on the artist’s desired surface is surely what attracts most beginners! Why Should I Start Pour Painting? Pour painting (also is the act of mixing acrylic paints with a flow enhancer (like Floetrol) and pouring it onto a surface to create abstract swirls and designs.
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