W.A.L.T: create an acrylic pour using negative space and the blow and kiss technique.
Last week me and my classmates each made a stunning acrylic pour. The pours that we did were negative space pour, which means that there is a lot of white in our painting instead of lots of colour. For our acrylic pours we also used the blow and kiss technique for the majority of our paintings. This is when you blow the paint outwards using a straw creating a pretty ripple effect, that looks similar to feathers. The kiss, is when u press a blown up balloon onto the wet paint and lift it off, the result looks a little like flowers. Most of us only did a few kisses on our paintings though.
These are the supplies that we used to make our pours.
- Paint (white or black and any other colours that we wanted.)
- A large triboard panel
- Straws
- Balloons
- Plastic cups
- Paper towels
- Rubbing alcohol (optional)
- Newspaper
The first step we did to make our paintings was to paint our triboard panels white to make sure that when we pour on the paint it wont warp. The next day after the panels were dry, we covered our desks in newspaper and put an ice cream container on top of the newspaper. Then we put our panels on top of the ice cream container so that when we did our pours any access paint would drip off the side onto the newspaper. When we had finished doing this we filled a plastic cup up with white paint and then poured that paint all over the board. We then tilted the board around so that the white paint went all over the board. After that we refilled the cup with any paint of out choice doing a few pumps at a time. If we wanted we could add a bit of rubbing alcohol in between the layers. For a few cells amongst our paintings. Once we had finished with that we poured out all the paint that was in our cup some where on our painting, (preferably close to the corners), and started blowing it out with a straw to create this cool rippling effect that looked a little like feathers. Once we thought that we had blown it out enough, so that there was still a desirable amount of white left on our canvas, we blew up our balloons and pressed them down a couple of times across our paintings. Then we were done! Most of us continued to make little changes to our paintings before they were dry to make sure that they were just right, but other than that we were finished.
Overall I really enjoyed making these acrylic pours, and I hope we get to do some again in class. I do think that my pout turned out pretty good in the end and am happy with the result.
If you had been the one doing these painting what do you think you would have done differently, and what would you change about mine if you could change anything?
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