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Create Beautiful Artwork with Color Pour – paint pouring tutorial!

Jen — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 06:20:42 +0000

Color Pour Paint Pouring Tutorial. Paint Pouring is an easy way to create one-of-a-kind art by pouring paint onto a canvas using different techniques. Kids of ALL ages will love making their own poured art!

Color Pour Paint Pouring Tutorial

Have you seen those videos where people pour paint into a cup and then flip it upside down on top of a canvas? They lift the cup up and all of the different colors of paint swirl together across the canvas, creating the most beautiful art? It’s mesmerizing! American Crafts created a line of paints specifically for paint pouring – Color POUR – and you can get the line at Jo-Ann stores. Color Pour paints are specially designed for paint pouring!

American Crafts sent me a box and asked me to give them a try. The kids and I spent a morning creating some beautiful pieces! This is a project that ANYONE would love. Kids of all ages, adults, girlfriends, etc.

How to Create Beautiful Artwork with Color Pour – paint pouring tutorial

Supplies:

You can get all of these supplies at Jo-Ann stores or online at Joann.com

Plastic Drop Cloths

Paint Pouring Cups

Pre-Mixed Paint There are all kinds of different paint palette colors available. Plus metallic paints, etc.

Glitter Paint Mix-Ins (optional. There are many types of glitters and foils you can add to your piece)

Canvas of your choice. You can also color pour on different surfaces like glass bottles to create a vase.

Directions:

Protect your work surface

Cover your counter with plastic sheeting

Pour your paint

Decide on which paint colors you want to use and how much of each. Pour the paint into the cup.

Pour your paint

You can flip the cup onto your canvas and then pull it up so that the paint flows out that way. Or you can pour the paint onto the canvas in a swirl or pattern. It’s up to you!

Rotate your canvas

Rotate your canvas in different directions so the paint flows down the canvas, creating a pattern.

Keep adding paint

You can add as much paint as you want, creating texture.

Add glitter or foils to your canvas

There are all kinds of different textured glitter you can add as well as different foils.

Cell Magic

There is also something called cell magic that you can use. It’s a medium that works along with Color Pour’s Butane Torch. The cell magic creates “cells” when exposed to the heat. I didn’t use the torch or the cell magic, but the results are beautiful if you want to give it a try!

Each canvas is unique

It was really fun to see the different ways we each personalized our canvases!

Paint Pouring Video

Here’s a little video of Hannah pouring paint onto her canvas:

Pour techniques

I poured my paint on in strips and then let it pour down the canvas in one direction.

Foil and glitter

Hannah added lots of glitter and foil to hers.

Nick swirled his paint

Dalen layered his paint.

Kids love creating art

Now the kids have art for their apartment and dorm rooms!

I have tried creating art using paint pouring before and while it was fun, it was hard to get the right consistency. I made a paint poured canvas for our master bedroom makeover last year. Regular paint is too thick to work effectively. And the finish wasn’t glossy like the Color Pour paints are. Give them a try. I think you will love creating art!

Have a creative day!

xoxo

I am a designer with American Crafts and Pebbles. I received free product to try out Color Pour paints. All opinions are my own.

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How to Make Fool-Proof Original Art for Your Home

Jen — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:34:43 +0000

Make Fool-Proof Original Art for Your Home

Have you ever seen those abstract paintings that are so cool and wondered if you could make something like that? They are harder to recreate than you might imagine. In my Bedroom Makeover I really wanted to incorporate my paint palette into the room with an original canvas. Make Fool-Proof Original Art for Your Home.

I spent two days working on different versions and ended up painting 4 different paintings. The one that I liked the most and ended up using in the room was by FAR the fastest and easiest of the four that I created.

Make Fool-Proof Original Art for Your Home

I’d love to share with you how to make fool-proof original art for ANY room in your home. And another nice thing about this idea is that you don’t need a lot of expensive supplies. Oil paint and supplies are pricey and they are worth the investment if creating art is something you plan to do long-term. But if you are looking to create a one-time masterpiece, skip all of those pricey materials and do what I did. I used the same paint I used on the wall to create my giant canvas. I also used plain ordinary paint brushes. The only supply I bought specifically for this project is a finishing clear, topcoat.

Here’s how to create fool-proof original art for your home!

Make Fool-Proof Original Art for Your Home

Supplies:

Canvas

Paintbrushes (one for each color you are using)

Paint

Topcoat

Cheap plastic Sheeting

Directions:

I laid my canvas on a table and covered the table and the floor under the table in cheap plastic paint sheets to protect the table and floors.

Decide what colors you want to use in the canvas.

The trick of this technique is having the paint drip in stripes down the canvas.

Separate the canvas out into the number of stripes you want and then paint the canvas while it’s laying flat in those colors, use lots of paint.

I used a separate paint brush for each color because you need to paint the stripes pretty quickly before the paint dries.

Now gently prop the canvas up on the table. I put a chair behind the canvas and propped the canvas against the chair.

The paint should start to drip down the canvas.

If the paint isn’t dripping fast enough, add a little more paint and direct it down with you paintbrush.

You don’t want the paint to drip down too much or it will cover up all of the colors except for the top color. So if it is starting to drip too fast, decrease the angle that the canvas is sitting or lay it down flat again.

Once the canvas has dripped the way you want it to be, lay it down and let it dry until it is completely dry. Mine took about a day to dry.

Once the canvas is dry, add a clear topcoat over the whole canvas and sides of the canvas and it will look like oil paint.

Hang it up!

I really love the way the painting brings all of the paint colors in the room to life. I hope you will try making something for YOUR home!

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xoxo

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