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How To Get Straight Lines Between Ring Pours *frog tape separators* acrylic paint pour, fluid art

I made the pouring medium 2parts pva glue to 1part water by weight, and then mixed 5part pouring medium to 4part paint by weight. I added extra water to some to thin them down so the consistency of all paints was the same.

Various suggestions for things to decorate with acrylic skins. Also a demonstration of making pendants with bezels, cabochons and E-6000 glue. The interesting thing here is that the videoer considers it sufficient to just glue the cabochon down (rather than gluing the skin down first), because that will hold everything in place underneath it, presumably because the cabochon will glue itself to the bezel sides. Worth a try.

This video shows you how to make your own Acrylic paint using Langridge Dry Ground Pigments.

You can make totally amazing tape for your Art Journals and Mixed Media art Projects with leftover Acrylic Skins. (That is, sheets of acrylic paint formed as part of the acrylic pouring process.) You can even cut this tape with fancy scissors, die cutters and punches. This is a way to use those skins that are just too thin to peel up on their own. This needs acid-free (non-yellowing) wide clear tape. The creator used Scotch Ultra Clear Heavy Weight Packing Tape, but other tapes would work just as well, so long as they are acid-free (and wide).

Step-by-step tutorial for consistent dendrite fractals in varying sizes and styles using a "mystery" liquid, acrylic inks, India ink, fluid acrylics and regular acrylic paint. See how to create beautiful snowflake - like patterns in any color. For these fractals the author used :

Artist Loft Flow Acrylic white paint from Michaels as the background... but ANY white paint seems to work (She tried at least 4 others too, including craft paint, with similar results).

Liquitex Acrylic Ink - Deep Violet Golden Fluid Acrylic - Quinacridone Magenta DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic - Titanium White Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay India Ink - Teal

91 % Isopropyl Alcohol "Mystery product" ... watch the video to see what it is.

Pretty thorough introduction to acrylic pour (fluid art) techniques. This video covers techniques on how to prepare your canvas, puddle pouring, dirty pours, funnel pours, flip cups, swipe / spreading, surface dipping, and more.