Dirty, Dirty Pour

Art made by a lot of people at a class I ran in my backyard last summer. Click for pics and general instructions.

Acrylic Paint Pouring, aka the #dirtypour technique

Liquitex pouring medium
Golden Acrylics pouring medium
PVA glue ( archival quality)
Elmer's glue
Floetol Easy
Flow GAC 800 ( helps stop cracks from forming)
91% rubbing alcohol
silicone in spray form or in liquid form)
imethicone ( instead of silicone - you can find it it some hair products like L’Oreal)

Mix 2 parts Floetrol : 1 part paint : 1 -part water, plus a couple of drops of silicone (or small spray of silicone)
5 parts Floetrol : 3 part paint : 1 parts 91% rubbing alcohol (add alohol or silicone if desired)

Danny Clark - he gives a lot of technical advise and talks a lot about the science
Annmarie Ridderhof - she is the Godmother of the flip cup
Rich Cheadle - check out his furniture acrylic pour makeovers
Color Arte by Leslie Ohnstad - she makes some really awesome mica paint pigments
Caren Goodrich - check out her flower puddle pours
[Pebeo paints - some of the most awesome and weird paints- but a bit expensive

Flip Cup: placing the canvas on top of a cup of paint, and flipping them over before releasing the paint
Dirty Pour: placing multiple colors of paint into one cup before applying it to a canvas
Swipe method: placing paint down on your canvas in a pattern, and then using a knife or other tool to drag some of the paint over the top of other colors.
Puddle pour: to pour paint into puddles before manipulating. Most often done by pouring concentric rings of different paint, one within another.
Swirl pour: to use a dirty pour cup and then pour it slowly onto the canvas using very small circular movements to form a ring pattern with the paint.
Ribbon pour: to pour from a cup in lines, forming ribbons of color
Balloon drop: to fill a balloon with paint, and then pierce the balloon, making a splatter effect, or to use the bottom of a balloon to drop it into the paint with the intent of manipulating the paint.
Hammer technique: using a hammer or mallet to hit (do this gently) the paint to cause it to spatter or move). This is done sometimes to break up the paint a bit.
Straw: using a drinking straw ( I have also seen this done using a air brush tool and a compressor) to blow air on the paint to manipulate its movement.

Canvas/Wood/Record/ object you wish to paint on
acrylic paint
silicone
pouring medium of some kind ( see list at top of page)
ome type of plastic cover for your work station (this is fun, but messy)
cups/ bowls/ jars to hold paint
spatula/ knife or palette knife
cardboard/ acetate (to drag across a swipe pour )
mixing sticks/spoons/knives (to stir paint)
freezer paper (optional) to preserve spilled paint
thumb tacks to hold the canvas off the table
painters tape to protect the back of your painting if you wish to be neat
heat gun/ torch/ lighter to pop bubble and to manipulate the silicone or alcohol in the paint
gloves ( unless you like getting paint on your hands)