easy paint pouring

Hello, this is Maddie from the South Whitley Community Public

Library and I have a paint pouring tutorial for you.

This goes along with our theme of painting without a

brush for june for kit of the Month club.

And it's a really easy way to create a fun

little canvas without a paintbrush.

So to start out with, I have your list of

materials you'll need.

You will definitely need newspaper, um any newspaper, preferably if

you're going to have it laid out, make sure that

there are a couple of layers um to avoid spills

and leakage.

Um That's always good.

Then you will definitely need paint.

I used this little um their little paint pots, they're

actually kids washable paint but they work fine, they are

water based and they do take a long time to

dry, especially for this project because we're going to be

using multiple layers of paint and it will be kind

of thick, so just be prepared for that.

This isn't something that you could probably do um with

kids and then just leave it out for a few

minutes and then expect it to be done.

It's going to take a while to dry but it's

worth it.

So um I used black, a light blue and a

like magenta fuchsia ish color.

Not quite purple but you know pinkish.

So those are the paint I used.

Next cups.

We used little dixie cups just like the bathroom sized

ones. Um You don't need much more than that because

you're going to be using a different cup for each

color. Um So you don't really necessarily need a big

cup. You can just use small ones.

Yeah. Next we have canvas now canvas for this.

We used just a standard four x 4 board canvas.

It is pre treated, it's primed white.

Um But other than that you can use pretty much

any canvas you have lying around.

Um Keep in mind that if it's a larger canvas

you need more paint.

And also um if you're gonna use a large canvas

you might wanna use a larger cup as your base.

These cups worked fine with the small canvases because it

is such a small cup so you can just set

it just like that.

But keep that in mind.

If you if you have a larger canvas you'll need

a bigger cup.

Maybe like a solo cup then for water.

Just water to thin down the paint what I'll show

you further on and then a straw.

We just have a regular old straw.

Um Not like barn straw but a drinking straw and

then paperclip.

Um That just helps you with the design.

It helps you monkey around with what you're doing.

Um It's just a fun tool.

It's like it creates a marbling effect, I'll show you

later. Um And some additional things.

Um I know I said paint without a brush but

I did use a mini paintbrush actually.

I used the end of it.

You probably can still see there's some paint on the

end of it.

Um I used it to dig the paint out of

the paint pot.

Um You can use anything, you can use a popsicle

stick, another straw, a spoon, it's whatever.

But I use the end of the paintbrush.

And of course where would we be without paper towel?

Because um yeah I kept getting paid on my, oh

I just did.

Huh? I got paint on my um on my hands

so you always need that.

So that's your list of materials.

So we'll get onto the actual tutorial.

Uh I started out like I showed you, I just

used a cup as the base um to keep it

off of the newspaper.

This helps because it helps it dry.

And also the underside, you'll get like little drips underneath.

And this allows it.

If you just had the canvas lying on the newspaper,

you would run into the problem of the paint drips

would get on the edge of the canvas against the

paper and it would stick to the paper.

Then you'll end up when it dries, You have to

peel it off of the newspaper and I get stuck.

So this just prevents that, it gives it like a

little pedestal and then you can just paint on top

of it, so that's your initial setup.

Uh And then you'll have um here we have, I

just took the paint pot and the paintbrush and I

emptied it out into one of the cups.

Um If possible, just use different cups for different colors

so that you won't get anything mixed up, then I

added water.

So this is kind of, you have to kind of

eyeball it.

I didn't I'm not going to include measurements just because

um it's kind of up to you, as long as

it ends up being something like this, this is like

sort of an oily bubbly consistency, it should be like

syrupy. So initially when you put the paint in the

cup it's going to be like gloopy, gloopy is probably

the best word I can think of.

Um But if you add a little bit of water

it's going to become more therapy.

And um oily.

So I went for oily, especially for black because I

wanted black to spread the most across the canvas because

black was like my base colour I was using.

Um So that's just a good way to start out

with like an oily consistency.

Next you'll just start pouring.

So paint pouring is just all that sounds like it's

just pouring paint on a canvas or whatever you can

paint on whatever you want.

Um But that's what it, that's what it looks like

to begin with, you just start going um I kind

of just went everywhere.

I didn't really have a clear path in mind, I

just thought it'd be fun to just swirl it around,

drop it everywhere.

Um So that's initially what you do and then as

you finish, just make sure you kind of spread it

out um depending on how many colours you're going to

use, I was going to use three, so I want

to definitely leave room for the other colors.

So after I finished with black and moved on to

blue, um I initially started, I think I've said initially

three times, I'm sorry about that, I like the word

initially I guess.

Uh So I I added the blue into like the

puddles of black.

Um and that kind of added like a poppy effect.

I don't know, it was kind of cool, um that's

what it ended up looking like, um That was cool,

I could have just left it like that, like I

think that looks cool, kind of minimal, but I think

it's you know, cool.

Uh And then I added the magenta e fuchsia color

um around the edges and as you can see the

the blue kind of swirled in with the with the

black really well because when you mix the paint with

the water, oh and I did, I didn't mix all

the colors with water, I just didn't take pictures of

me adding water to the blue or the fuchsia um

color. So you'll add water to all of them before

you start pouring.

But um they'll mix as you go so you'll kind

of get an understanding and a visual for what it's

going to look like eventually as you pour and I

went all the way around with the purple color and

then I went more with the black because as I

was looking at it, I thought I don't want this

to be like just a bunch of blue and purple

on top, like I want to add more black and

then I went back with the blue also so you

can see it just is it's just a swirl of

paint like it's all over the place um Now to

manipulate your canvas into making it more marble.

E you can use the paper clip.

So the paperclip if you've ever made a cake cheesecake

brownie mix where you'll take the knife um and go

through the batter and sort of swirl.

I guess I could do it this way you kind

of go up and down and swirl around.

You kind of make like a I don't know like

a a swirl pattern I guess.

Um This is what it looks like, you can kind

of see it um As you go back and forth

with a paper clip you'll create that effect just like

you would like a knife through batter or whatever.

Um So that adds a nice touch.

And then also I didn't quite get the paint all

the way to the edges of the canvas so to

ensure that without touching it too much I was able

to use a straw.

This is a great angle of me.

Um But it's just me blowing on the canvas with

a straw.

Um And air just allows that manipulation to like push

and as you'll see some of the paint did drip

off obviously.

Um And that's why we have the newspaper, the several

layers of newspaper.

I think I did like I didn't unfold it, I

just left it folded so They're like four layers of

paper there to protect the countertop.

And this is what I ended up with.

I just left it kind of as is I didn't

really manipulate it further after I did that swirl effect

with the paper clip and then after I blew on

it to get to the paint all the way to

the edges.

I just left it like that and I was satisfied

with it.

I don't know it looks kind of cool.

I think it looks cool anyway but there's my example

for you and then I left it out in the

sun. Um I found a sunny spot here in the

library and I uh left it to dry as I

mentioned this is water based paint and there is a

lot of it on this campus depending on how much

you used and how many layers.

I used a lot of layers.

So um it's actually I can see it right now.

It's over there.

Um it's probably going to take several hours to dry.

Um I looked it up online and it said water

based paint usually takes like an hour but that's if

you're actually using a brush and it's one layer.

So just be prepared that if you're going to leave

it in the sun it might take a few hours.

But then it will be dry and then you can

frame it, display it whatever you want.

So hope you enjoy paint pouring.

Thank you.

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