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LiberalLoner

(11,456 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 02:31 PM Jun 2025

Tried acrylic pour painting for the very first time.

I hope to get better as I go along and learn more.

Working on small 5x7 budget cradled boards until I learn what I’m doing and then I might try something larger.

I feel with abstract work, more of my spirit or subconscious comes out.

Have you guys tried this technique? It’s really fun.

I think pour paintings are also done with watercolors sometimes, where you block out your whites ahead of time and pour the paint onto the paper.

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A mockup using Smartist app:

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Tried acrylic pour painting for the very first time. (Original Post) LiberalLoner Jun 2025 OP
Pretty cool. Diamond_Dog Jun 2025 #1
Thank you! It was so much fun and so freeing! LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #2
Gorgeous! Nt spooky3 Jun 2025 #3
Thank you! 💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #4
Yw spooky3 Jun 2025 #17
Very Pretty. Srkdqltr Jun 2025 #5
Thank you! 💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #6
Beautiful! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #7
Thank you! 😍💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #8
Pat B Allen was s professor at the School of the Art Inst of Chicago SheltieLover Jun 2025 #9
These are both very beautiful. If this is your first try, I can't wait to see the second. LoisB Jun 2025 #10
Thank you so much! 💙💙💙. I need to learn how to get the cells and lacing. Might take a lot of practice. But LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #11
That you are excited and having fun is really the important aspect. They really are beautiful. LoisB Jun 2025 #12
Thank you! 😍💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #13
i have a friend who does similar paintings w ink. mopinko Jun 2025 #14
So cool! I have heard of those alcohol ink paintings! 💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #15
"" AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #16
You might like this video: spooky3 Jun 2025 #18
Oh I love this! Thank you! I like their work much better than my own! I can LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #19
Glad you liked it! Nt spooky3 Jun 2025 #20
My dad really got into doing those bif Jun 2025 #21
So cool! 💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Jun 2025 #22

spooky3

(37,921 posts)
17. Yw
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jun 2025
and i like how you “staged” them. You should be a designer if you aren’t already!

SheltieLover

(73,855 posts)
7. Beautiful!
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 04:16 PM
Jun 2025

Art therapy is pretty much all process based, with the presumption that the art form is an autonomous entity wishing to create through us. Great stuff!

SheltieLover

(73,855 posts)
9. Pat B Allen was s professor at the School of the Art Inst of Chicago
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 05:13 PM
Jun 2025

When I studied Art Therapy there.

She has written some fabulous books about the process:

Art is a Way of Knowing

And

Art is a Spiritual Path.

The 1st one is basically the master of art therapy method.

Enjoy!



On edit: website. https://www.patballen.com/

LiberalLoner

(11,456 posts)
11. Thank you so much! 💙💙💙. I need to learn how to get the cells and lacing. Might take a lot of practice. But
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 05:53 PM
Jun 2025

I’m really excited and having fun at this!

LoisB

(11,688 posts)
12. That you are excited and having fun is really the important aspect. They really are beautiful.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jun 2025

ENJOY!

spooky3

(37,921 posts)
18. You might like this video:
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:49 PM
Jun 2025
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At around 11:40, you’ll hear the director ask the painter about Cyndi Lauper. Earlier the tribal people were shown the We Are The World video and this painter was very taken with Cyndi .

LiberalLoner

(11,456 posts)
19. Oh I love this! Thank you! I like their work much better than my own! I can
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 04:51 PM
Jun 2025

See I am using too much paint with the pouring mixture. I will make an adjustment when I try a second time!



bif

(26,246 posts)
21. My dad really got into doing those
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 08:15 PM
Jun 2025

He was always artistic. But after he retired, he really got into doing abstract art on big masonite panels. He bought latex houseplant and would pour the paint onto the panels and let it flow wherever it wanted. My brother and I now have several hundred of these!

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