Fluid Art
Introduction: Fluid Art
Hello Everyone,
This colorful Instructable is about how to do Fluid art using various techniques. Its really cool way to play with colors even though you are an amateur or you don't like paint in conventional method using a brush or any hand tool. Just pour the colors together and be curious to know what you get as result.
Little theory about fluid art, this technique is also known as Pouring theory or art therapy. It soothes your mind, when the color gets to flow in different direction, its relaxes you. Beauty part is when you do same technique with different colors you get a different outcome, even slight changes in pattern will be there like human finger prints, looks same but everything will be unique in its own way.
Let the fun begin
Step 1: Supplies
1) Canvas Board (6"x 6") - 6 Nos
you can also use wood, acrylic or even coasters.
2) Fluid art acrylic colours - As per your choice
I have taken White, Red, black, yellow, Neon yellow, Neon green, Neon Pink and Neon Orange
3) Pouring medium
Recommended brands are Brustro, Liquitex
4) Paper cups (150 ml , 75 ml size)
5) Hand gloves
6) Apron to cover your dress as acrylic colour will stain your fabric, or wear old clothes while performing this art
7) Weighing machine (not mandatory) for beginners
Step 2: Make Mess But on Plastic Sheet
Spread news paper on your desk and cover it will plastic sheet, plastic sheet are enough and once dried, you can peel off your earlier poured acrylic or even resin. But my plastic sheet was not big enough so, i added newspaper below. since this is 6 inch x 6 inch canvas board, so one paper cup will be enough to hold it in air. Set up all the six canvas board with sufficient distance between them.
Step 3: Make It Fluid
There is difference between acrylic colour and fluid acrylic colours, for fluid art obviously you need fluid acrylic colours as they will have better flow rate, in order to make it more smooth flow, pouring medium is added. Clearly see your fluid color instruction. Certain acrylic fluid (brand) doesn't require pouring medium, they are thin and flow is smooth, adding pouring medium to it will spoil your paint as it be like water paint consistency.
So its important to know whether your brand requires it or not, then if it requires what is the ratio. 1013
for eg., my acrylic colour required pouring medium, their ratio where 2:1 for paint and pouring medium.
After combining, you should have consistency that paint shouldn't drip like water nor like honey, somewhere in the middle. Consistency of fluid acrylic is the key to achieve best flow.
Step 4: Prime Your Canvas
Priming up your surface means, you are gonna make your surface ready for art therapy, it will really help allowing to flow the paint in the direction you want. Usually surface will be primed with white acrylic paint, you can choose your preferred color blue ,red, even pink totally your choice. If you wanna do professionally then you can use professional primer available in market. apply on the surface and leave it for 24 hours.
Step 5: Smash Technique
Trust me, this is one of the lazy as well cool technique, all you have to do is pour your colours on a cardboard enough to fill your canvas board. Take your primed canvas board and SMASH it. 3rd image is what left in cardboard after removing canvas board.
Step 6: Your First Technique
Even i didn't expect beautiful 3D branch results in pink colour, cool orange rose at the right top corner. It happened when i tried to pull it up. That's the beauty of this technique, you can create something without even seeing it.
Step 7: Dirty Cup Mixing
Add your first colour (red) and in side, touching the ends of cup add another colour (yellow)
Tip: Connecting cup and pouring in the wall of the cup helps in reduction of bubble creation, Bubbles are enemy of your art here. As they will be intact and blows up before drying and creates a dent.
Step 8: Dirty Pour Technique
Take your final colour and place the cup ulta on the canvas board, let it lie for few seconds, take it the colour will take the course when you start tilting it
Step 9: Rotate
Rotate directions in such a way that it covers the entire canvas board.
Tip to remember: Whatever colour your pouring first in your cup will be your canvas centre colour.
In this i added first red and too combination is 60% red & 40% yellow , so red is dominating. Remember to put your dark colour less than your light colours,
its should have been 70% yellow and 30% red, i might even have got orange out of it. 1013