As everyone ushering the new year 2021, I’ve been busy painting painting and painting. I’ve made several artworks, but one of the novel one was the acrylic pour. I’ve been seeing alot of the impressionistic and abstract works flowing online.

Also, these organic artworks can be done by any lay people, regardless any way you approach it, it will turns out nice and not too childish on your wall. Just what I looking for to decorate onto my rather empty wall in my newly shifted house.

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After watching several acrylic pour tutorials on Youtube and references on Pinterest, I decided to go with the impressionistic seascape view. By Cathy Sik:-

And following the tutorial and some personal research, everything was fine, except here are few tips to add on if you’re also like me on your first time trying acrylic pour:-

• Preparing your acrylic pour colors:-
  • If you’re like me, using acrylic colors from tube, and blending it out using pouring medium, mix your colors in the cup FIRST to your desired shade, before mixing into the pouring medium. As it will be difficult to blend the colors together once you have the pouring medium.
  • Also, try to make similar consistency for each colors as you do not want one color runs faster than the rest. The consistency for each color should be honey-like.
• Blowing your acrylic
  • In the tutorial, Cathy blew some of the colors to create waves, but I realize overdoing it can “break” the waves into smaller colors, unless that’s what you going for, go ahead
• Your final artpiece, is not your final artpiece
  • Although acrylic known to be fast drying medium, because of the thick consistency that was used in the pouring technique, it continues to move around even after you have leave it flat on your counter top. Mine was different from what I initially did in the night before, but well, that’s the beauty of it, let nature take it’s course and surprise you
  • Don’t try to control the outcome too much, since it will continue to run into itself after your leave it dry
  • Also, I added some hair oil to create cells, to my surprise, it didn’t come out immediately after I did my pour but the cells only start to appear the next day. This is amazing. Now I finally understand why some people find acrylic pour so fascinating.

Happy pouring, and I hope this some little information from me will make you less nervous about doing your acrylic pour.