Fluid Acrylic Painting: Dutch Pour Method Irises

1. Acrylic Dutch Pour/Irises Introduction: everybody. This is gonna be my first acrylic pouring video. So I am just gonna do it with you experiment and we're gonna do a Dutch poor before we get started. I want to show you the materials that I'm using, the paints and so on. All my pains are mixed with flow trawl and a little bit of water, and the recipe is on the description for you to follow. I use paints from Dick Blick. These air called black acrylics and they just really their creamy. They have a nice little shame to him, and they work just beautifully, especially for the Dutch pores or fluid art painting. These bottles are little score bottles that you can mix these air six ounces. You mix that your paint your water in your flow trial. You shake it up with a small cap on top, take it off and it squeezes nicely onto the canvas. Today I'm gonna be using chrome yellow to Tini and white, ultra marine blue and metallic gold. And we also have the green oxide. Um, this is my blowtorch. You can get those also on Amazon or local hardware store, and this is a little floppy disk, I call it, It helps spread. The paint will see in the video. Want to do the background of the off the white paint? I spread it around with this. This is really nothing more than the top of a cool whip container lid cut in half. It works really nice. It's nice and pliable. Another option is taking a Styrofoam plate, cutting the circle out in the center and then cutting it in half. That's all that isn't Styrofoam. In my video, you'll see out using a magnet I got at a local store when I cut that in half. It's just as I said to drag the paint. Okay, let's get started. 2. Step 1 Background: So, first of all, we're gonna flood the canvas with white more, and we're gonna fill in all this negative space. You gotta get around the edges that it covers the side. No. Take my magnet and works nice. I like that. But it's not enough. Just get some looking good. I just don't want to see the Canada, but I'm gonna be adding color colored paints for the flowers. One. Do you like a such poor technique? I'm gonna try the blow dryer too. But this is so much fun. I'm, uh Excuse me. What's my for today? It's winner. So lots of stuff going around right now, but a little bit about me. I'm a floral designer. I've been working the floral industry for over 20 years as a designer, doing flowers for weddings and events. And when I was in my early twenties, I had gotten pregnant with my first son, firstborn child, and I wasn't working at the time. So I taught myself how to paint when have taken summer classes in school, in advanced art classes. But I never knew how to paint. So I painted a nursery in his mural, a mural in his nursery. Ever since then, I've been painting and experimenting with new things. My medium is usually acrylic panes and these are killed paints, too. 3. Step 2 Add color: So first I want to start with blue and I'm gonna try and make it look like irises When I blow it out. Going to start with It's quickly. Yeah. Purples. So pretty. Maybe a little gold. Maybe we'll dio a little bit took in spots. I'm not really sure. Okay again, so you can blow it over the color. Is he just put down? I am excited about the possibilities of being gorgeous. All right, open this. See? Has an open closed valve on it. Does the torch I put on clothes open there. It's the air bubbles out. Yeah. Nice last type. Finish done. 4. Step 3 Blowdryer: 5. Varnish & conclusion (2): Here you go. Something got a nice mixture. Soft pastels of blues and yellows and lavenders gets into some really defined cells. I love this over here, the in the light. So Michael is to try and make flowers as I learned to do this more. I just love the way paint blends naturally.