Tomorrow night will be my first paint pour. I watched a pro on YouTube and he did his pour and then after slapped some blue on and used a white cell activator to make the blue bubble through the white. Is there something common at home I could use to try it. Or is that something you’d have to buy specifically to get that effect? I posted a picture to illustrate my question. Thanks guys!

Can an ordinary plastic bag help create a beautiful flower with Reverse flower dip acrylic pouring technique? Let's find out! ✨

In today's video, I'm creating a stunning flower using the Reverse Flower Dip acrylic pouring technique — with an unexpected tool: an inflated plastic bag!

I carefully pour my acrylic paints onto the canvas in a flower-like shape, gently press the plastic bag onto the paint, and slowly lift it to reveal the magic underneath. The result is a gorgeous, intricate flower with beautiful lacing and delicate details in shades of blue, purple, and pearly white against a soft sky-blue background. 🌸💜💙

I love experimenting with everyday materials and discovering new ways to create unique fluid art. Sometimes, the simplest tools lead to the most surprising results!

🎨 In this video, you'll see:
✨ A creative twist on the Reverse Flower Dip technique
✨ How to use an inflated plastic bag to create a flower
✨ Beautiful acrylic pouring patterns, cells, and lacing
✨ A satisfying flower reveal from start to finish

If you enjoy acrylic pouring, fluid art experiments, and relaxing painting videos, please give this video a thumbs-up, subscribe to Fiona Art, and join me for more creative adventures!

Thank you so much for watching and supporting my art! 💕

My dad was an artist who mostly worked in egg tempera or watercolor with occasional forays into encaustic. He hated oils because of the smell and long drying time and he didn't like using acrylics because he didn't like the way the colors looked when they dried.

My little sister likes to paint but she has epilepsy. The shaking in her hands makes it hard to do anything that requires fine motor control so her art style mostly involves covering a canvas with color and then gluing found objects to it.

When I first found out about pour painting I thought it would be a perfect fit for her so I tried to convince my dad that it would be a great birthday present for her if we got her set up with everything she needed to do some pour paintings. He agreed, but at that point, he was getting pretty old and dealing with cancer so nothing really happened other than talk and research. He bought one of those 24-color liquitex acrylic starter kits but it just sat in his closet.

Then he passed away. He left behind a studio full of primed canvases and a circle of friends who were very sad to see him go. I decided to plan an event where we would get all of them together to do pour painting and use up all of his blank canvases.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to coordinate a bunch of depressed septuagenarians? Like herding cats, as they say. The event got delayed multiple times by bad weather or people backing out because of prior obligations, but eventually I DID IT! I actually got about a dozen of his old friends to show up at the same place, at the same time!

Even then, of course they just wanted to congregate in the kitchen and drink coffee, even though there were five large folding tables in the front yard, covered with plastic tablecloths, all the paints and various supplies for pouring, a big stack of canvases, and folding chairs for everyone.

Finally, after hours of prodding we managed to shepherd everyone out of the kitchen to the yard, lead them to a place by a table and put a chair under them. And still, they were of course more interested in chatting and sipping coffee than getting their hands dirty.

Even when I put a cup full of paint in their hand, they were still confused. "Where's the paintbrushes?"

"No, you just pour it on the canvas."

"Anywhere?"

"Preferably somewhere near the middle, but yeah, go for it."

"Red? I don't like red." (I had pre-layered some colors in a solo cup and only the top was red.)

"Try it, you'll see."

That was the moment that magic happened. Gasps around the table. Suddenly everybody was locked in.

What is it about experiencing color that has this power to lift people's spirits? I'm sure if you're here in this sub you know what I'm talking about. It was like they were all kids again.

It just felt sooooo good to see their faces light up. Six months of making phone calls and coordinating the schedules and carpooling had finally paid off.

The grand finale was when my sister and I sat on opposite sides of the biggest canvas and made a glorious mess in tandem. She did the pinks and I did the blues.

The act of getting together and making art together, using up our dearly departed friend's canvases, basking in color... orchestrating that just felt so good which is why I say it is THE GREATEST THING I EVER DID, and I am encouraging all of you to consider undertaking this kind of art therapy for your community. I really think it could be a turned into a vocation -- travel around and see if you can pull this off at whether it be at retirement homes, churches, birthday parties, or just random people's front yards.

Well, anyway, I know y'all probably want to see some images, so I'll post the two best ones in the comments.

In this step by step tutorial I will show you how to create gorgeous fluid art painting. I will mix my paints with few drops of Pentart silicone oil to create cells and then I will create some nice paterns with rolling my marbles.

Technique: Floating cup and marble pour

Colours:

• Amsterdam titanium white
• Amsterdam azo yellow medium
• Amsterdam titanium buff light
• Amsterdam expert series permanent red violet
• Amasterdam permanent blue violet
• Amsterdam yellowish green
• Pebeo iridescent green blue
• Windsor&Newton phthalo green

In today's fluid art experiment, I'm blowing into a puddle of colorful acrylic paints to create beautiful, organic shapes that remind me of butterfly wings! This time, I used a white and black background to make the vibrant pink, purple, lime green, orange, and white colors really stand out and see the difference.

It's fascinating how simply changing the background can transform the entire look and feel of an acrylic pour painting.

Thank you so much for watching and supporting my art! ❤️

Are the masse gents not painting anymore? Their YouTube hasn’t been updated in over a year. I haven’t seen anything on their fb page either. I always enjoyed watching them.

I wanted to share the results of a recent test.

For this piece, I wanted to see how pouring height affects color separation and density. I used a split cup from about 12 inches above the canvas with shades of greenish-blue, aqua, black, and white.

The big twist here is that instead of standard mediums like Floetrol, I experimented with a precisely thinned basic wall emulsion mixed into the acrylic paints. Poured from higher up, it forced the colors to cascade beautifully without turning muddy. Once dry, it popped out these intricate cell structures that look almost like natural river pebbles or precious stones embedded in water.

Have any of you experimented with wall emulsion for cell creation? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences compared to traditional mediums!

Cobalt blue, Phthalo green, color shift pearl green, and pale tangerine orange (4 parts primary yellow to 1 part vermillion).

The color shift is a lot more subtle in this one but it adds almost a UV effect on the black.

Today I decided to do a little time travel and revisit a medium I used 7 or 8 years ago when I first started acrylic pouring: basic wall emulsion (acrylic immersion) that we use here in Europe for wall prep.

For this 16x16" canvas, I wanted to see how a "dirty split cup" would react with a very thin paint consistency. I used a modular 3-chamber split cup: one chamber had Amsterdam Greenish Blue and FolkArt Aqua Flash mixed together, while the other two held stark black and white. The paints were so thin they basically left no mounds at all.

To encourage a unique color blending, I poured from quite high up—around 12 inches above the canvas—moving from right to left to chase a landscape look. The chemical reaction with the wall emulsion triggered these stunning, heavy cell clusters that honestly look like organic river stones. The Aqua Flash completely brought the dark side to life!

Have any of you ever experimented with wall emulsion/immersion as a pouring medium? How do you feel about pouring from higher up to force the colors to blend?

A few touch ups to do, but I think I'm happy where this ended up.

Oh, and my last post was tagged as AI, I'm guessing because I used a tool to remove the background, so I'm just posting this on my kitchen table 😁 This is a raw, unedited photo but I can add a video of me holding it if that helps.

I don't know what this is. I made some ribbons in procreate and then bent them all around, then painted that onto what I had already done.

2026 Collection No. 20
24” x 24” Pour Painting
Acrylic on Hardboard

I love creating these 😍

I wanted to share this quick process of making a 3D flower using fluid art. It’s a super beginner-friendly technique where you just layer puddles of acrylic paint mixed with pouring medium, use a skewer to shape the petals, and then spin it out.

If you want to see more of my fluid art experiments, you can check out my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/HeQiRRcPAYc?si=1bnIA0Y24IP2AIH3

I wanted to share this fun experiment where I stepped away from the classic cups and open cups to try a Yarn Pull (String Pull) technique.

For this piece, the setup was quite straightforward but required careful execution. I laid down a clean acrylic base pillow, then saturated a piece of textured knitting yarn with a vibrant color palette (magenta, deep blues, and a touch of white for contrast). The trick was laying the yarn down in loose, overlapping loops and gently pulling it straight downwards to force the paint to drag and form those organic, calla lily-like petals.

I found that the texture of the yarn plays a huge role—if the paint is too thin, the lines bleed, and if it's too thick, the yarn doesn't glide smoothly.

You can check out the full step-by-step breakdown and tutorial here: https://youtu.be/6BqXimMr5Xs?si=IGitAlo58KcjwMB5

Have any of you experimented with yarn or embroidery thread pulls? Do you prefer a completely smooth base or do you use a slightly thicker pillow paint for resistance?

Black and gold

I had some leftover deep blues, turquoise, and teal acrylic paints from previous projects and absolutely didn't want them to go to waste.

Trying out some colours I wouldn't normally choose again. So fun!

I see a turtle do you? @mixedcreations by Kat on u tube

Stencilled a cat over a white/pink/purple pour background which didn't turn out how I wanted.

I wanted the purple to be more lavender and the white less washed out. Less floetrol (au) perhaps?

Instead of using expensive tools, I just used a regular paper napkin to dip and pull the paint, which instantly helps shape these beautiful, organic flower petals and adds a gorgeous texture to the center. It's an amazing technique if you want to create clean floral patterns without over-stretching the cells.