WANNA TAKE A WALK TO THE BEACH?

Acrylic Paint

9" x  12"

And when the two birds went into the sky, 

I knew I was done.

It felt great!

 

And a new pair of socks are on the needles.  Stroll yarn by KnitPick in the Yeti colorway.  They go well with the picture!

VISIT OVER....

We enjoyed some more acrylic paint pouring adventures yesterday;  here Marsel is catching the drips off the bottom of her canvas.

She used a lot of silver with the blues and made a very fun watery canvas this time!

This is a little  5 x 7 to use up her leftover paint.

This one is mine--I am still experimenting with the black, blues and a  pop of green!  (Larger canvases are 11 x 14")

 My mini one is made with the left over paint on the table!  Cool marriage of colors!  We were much less messy this time and were more confident with mixing and pouring!  Another week would be nice...but home is calling them!

A BRIEF VISIT!

My daughter and grandson have zipped down for a brief visit!  We are going to pack a lot into our few days--number 1 on the list is art!  We did this watercolor exercise for a Fall landscape.

We played with some acrylic paint pouring!  What fun to get messy with a buddy! lol Marsel wanted to have an abstract in Fall colors for her family room wall-she got it!

This is totally NOT what I thought I was going to get but it sure looks 'other-wordly' and David claimed it for his room!  (these two are 11 x 14')

 This one is a mini at 5 x 7" but I used up some leftover paints.  It looks like a weather map to me!

Today is a family gathering--three of my four kids and my brother and sil for a cook out.  

MESSY FUN

After a slow morning, I decided to try my hand 

at acrylic paint pouring!  I mixed and measured several colors 

that are some favorites.

I tapped in push pins to the back of my canvas

 to raise it off the surface of the table,

 then leveled it by adjusting the pins.

I forgot to take a pic of the first one's start; but basically you pour on paint and tip the canvas this way and that to cover the top and side--- this is super messy but lots of fun!

   I made the usual rookie errors in mixing--too much water

 but I will be picking up some more paint and trying again!

It reminds me of the paper dipping I used to do

 with acrylic paint on the water's surface.

Did any of you try that in your youth?!

I did look at a very interesting artist who uses these paint pours as a  background for her 'real' paintings after it dries. 

 I am going to do that but it does require up to a week 

to let the canvas to dry. 

I had to have help from Bill to put the rubber glove over my brace! But even so, I had paint everywhere!  I do not like being sticky so it was a bit of a trial but I can see why people love doing this!