![]() ![]() TIP: if you do run out of paint, and you have a bare corner of canvas/board, just scoop some out of what's left on the cup and slap that in the empty space. You don't want to let too much run off the canvas/board or you won't have enough left to reach all four corners. Let the paint run back to the centre of the canvas/board before tilting to another corner and repeating the scoop and dab thing. Use your finger to scoop up some of the dripped paint and dab it on the corners and along the sides. Tilt the canvas/board to one corner letting a little bit of paint run off the sides. Golden rule: don't keep moving the paint about as you'll start mixing it and getting dirty colours. We need to help the paint here by tilting the canvas/board to spread the paint. Get your heat source and quickly run it over the paint to pop any bubbles and get the silicone doing its magic. Whoom! The paint will form a big circle in the middle of the canvas/board. You want to lift the cup at a bit of an angle as you effectively want to break any seal that might happen between the cup and the canvas/board. This will stop the paint sticking to the cup and get all that painty goodness out. TIP: you can spray some WD40 inside the cup (and spread it around) before adding the paint. Maybe give it a few gentle taps on the butt to help it? Wait a few seconds for the paint to run down inside the cup. These act as legs and let any paint drip and run off the sides. Hold the cup and the back of the canvas/board and flip the whole thing upside down. Take your canvas/board and put it upside down over the cup. It's just to get the colours moved about in the cup. Take a lollipop stick, put it in the cup, and draw a number 8. Keep pouring them into the cup until you've got over half of an 8oz cup. Maybe a bit more red? Some more white? Sure, why not. Some red (just a little), some blue, some yellow. Take a new cup and start pouring in some of the paint. Some people use push-pins to lift the canvas/board. This is to put your canvas/board on when the paint is running off it. We'll do what's called 'a dirty cup' flip. Lastly, add the magic sauce: about three drops of silicone to some of the cups. ![]() Do you think if you poured them all into one cup you'll have enough to over half-fill it? If so, good. I find that white makes the painting go all pale and dull looking. TIP: try and use more colours and less white. Choose the three primary colours (red, blue, and yellow) and some white. So, do that for each colour you want to use. When you scoop some paint onto the lollipop stick and let it run off it should run off in a continuous thread, but not like water. You want to get the paint to the same consistency as warm honey. Squish some pouring medium into the cup (which has the paint) and stir with a lollipop stick. Not too much paint (maybe 5mm deep) as we'll be adding about the same in pouring medium. Take a cup and add a single colour of paint to it. Now we need to get the paint ready to put on the canvas. If cells aren't your thing then you don't need this. You'll need this to activate the silicone and pop bubbles. You can get them on Amazon for about £10-15. These are the butane-filled ones that are used in kitchens. You'll probably need to get this from Amazon/eBay. Some cheap dollar/pound shops do 3-in-1 or WD40, but most aren't 100% silicone. You only need about 3 drops of this in some cups to give that cell look to paintings. Silicone is the secret ingredient that makes the paint go all funky. You'll need over half of an 8oz cup to cover about an A4 sized canvas. Buy different sizes of cups such as 7 or 8oz and even some little shot cups. You'll mix paint in the plastic cups, and stir it with the lollipop sticks. ![]() plastic sheet (for minimising mess - optional).Hell, try cheap undercoat, it might work. If you use wood you'll need to get Gesso. You can buy cheap box canvases (a wooden square/rectangle with canvas stretched over it) or you can use bits of wood. For white, get a big 500ml tub as it's the most commonly used colour. Get big tubes of the stuff as you'll use lots of it. You can get these cheap from dollar/pound shops, but I'd recommend getting some decent student/artist quality stuff from Amazon. You can get 500ml bottles of glue from dollar/pound shops. Most of the things can be bought from dollar/pound shops. This Instructible will focus on acrylic pour painting, but on a budget. It needs no drawing or painting abilities and lets you act like a five-year-old by getting paint all over your hands. Well, acrylic pour painting is just the thing for you! Is your drawing deplorable? Is your painting pathetic? ![]()
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