A friend of mine over in another country had been making some lovely resin clocks for a while on MDF and, as I would not be impinging on her market at all, I thought I would try making one on an LP as I had a bunch of old records hanging around and I thought… Read More Fluid Acrylic Clock Painting
I decided that I would start making some greeting cards as I had a bunch of good quality card stock to use up and I thought some small fluid acrylic paintings might make some nice designs for blank greeting cards. I’m not sure how financially viable it will be but does allow me also to… Read More Fluid Acrylic Greeting Cards
I have always been fascinated by the sea and in particular the fabulous colours in seas other than those in the UK! Having lived in Dubai I have seen what colour a turquoise sea can be and those are the seas we all dream about (although I know there are even more fantastic ones that… Read More Fluid Acrylic Wave Paintings
So I was doing some small canvas pours for freebies for my upcoming open studios and this is the one that I think has come out the nicest. I used 5 paint colours in this pour as follows: white permanent magenta velvet purple silver deep turquoise I only used a really small amount of the… Read More Purple & Pink Dirty Cup Pour
So I have bought 8 small canvases that are going to form part of some goody bags that will be given to visitors to my studio during my Open Studio in June this year. I wanted to include an acrylic pour canvas in each bag as well as a bunch of other little gifts to… Read More Small Pours with Silicone
Fluid Acrylic Painting with a Hairdryer So I often use my hairdryer in my paintings to get out the bubbles from the paint and resin and to get some cells appearing with the silicone but I decided this time to use it to actually move the paint around. The video is included below and for… Read More Using a Hairdryer in a Painting
So I was experimenting with some other designs that revolved around squirts of paint and lots of different colours and I wanted to have a fluid acrylic painting as a base. I came up with the following painting after a couple of other efforts and I really like how it has come out. The base… Read More Using a Fluid Acrylic Painting as a Base
I recently created a slightly different purple abstract painting using fluid acrylic paints. The method was as per the long instructions that you can find on this page. Further information is below: This painting used quite a lot of white paint, I wanted to have the effect of the purple floating through the painting with… Read More Purple and Gold Abstract Painting
How to make a wooden frame for your fluid abstract painting. So because I have been creating my fluid abstract paintings on my own canvas boards (see here for instructions on how to make the canvas boards), the paintings really needed a frame to finish them off. Firstly I’ll show you a picture of the… Read More How to Make a Wooden Frame
So for my latest collection of fluid acrylic paintings I wanted to work on canvas board for a couple of reasons – the main one being that I wanted to put a coat of resin on top and I knew that for that I would need a really flat surface so that the resin would… Read More How to Make Your Own Canvas Board