Starting the year with colours

This years first workshop was a fun group that contacted me to do an Acrylic Pour Swipe workshop for them. It's always nice to have a group of friends in the studio to play. Since they hadn't done any Acrylic Pouring before we did a little exploring with Dirty Pours as well as swipes and waves. They did really well for their first time pouring. 

Aleksandro

Daniel

Diane

Karen

Lara

Shannon

This is a sampling of one of each of their pours that they created in an afternoon. 

Thanks Karen for organizing your friends for a play day here in the studio. Look forward to seeing you again some time.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

More fun with pours

Yesterday was the second workshop for the Rings and balloons acrylic pours. It was so much fun that I had a hard time stopping. Well once I have everything out for it I might as well keep playing and experimenting right?!!
You can see by my students result what a great group they were and an inspiration to keep playing.

Deb

Deb

Gloria

Gloria

Louise

Louise

Sharon

Sharon

How fun are these. I will share my new experimental ones in a few days.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Variations of Acrylic Pours

Dirty pour and balloons.

  
 A few years ago a friend convinced me to try acrylic pouring. It took a little convincing because I didn't think it was something I wanted to do. It was just too trendy...everyone was doing it. I usually prefer to try things that no-one has seen before and try to do my own take on it. I didn't think acrylic pouring was something I could experiment and make into my own style.
   As you can guess she talked me into it. Our first attempt was fun but not what I would call successful. After doing some more research and some help from a fellow artist we were off and runner. And I have to say somewhat addicted. If you've done some acrylic pours you already know, you can't do just one.

Rings and balloons.

   After doing a multitude of dirty pours and teaching a number of workshops with it, I started to try some other techniques. First was the Swipe and with it the wave and layers. This became my second Acrylic Pours workshop. 

Rings with cloud effect.

   This past month I gave myself a few days to do some more experimenting with a variety of pour methods. All the images here are from those 3 playful, experimenting days.

Tree rings.

   Some of the methods that I tried and had success with were tree rings, cloud effect and balloons.

Swipes and balloons.

   I have a little more experimenting to do and then I will be sharing these methods in a new upcoming workshop. If you've done some pouring or are a newbie, this workshop promises to be a fun one.

   I will keep you posted when the date is set for it.

Keep creating!
Wendy

First Acrylic pour workshop of the year.

   Doing an acrylic pour workshop this past weekend was so much fun after having taken a small break from workshops over the winter. These two friends were excited to try out dirty pours and did a great job.

Kathy

Kathy

Heather

Heather

I've been doing some experimenting with different kind of pours. So much fun and addictive. Keep an eye open here, I will share some soon. I will also be adding a new acrylic pour workshop on the schedule with some of these new types of pours.

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Acrylic Pour Swipes

Today was my first Acrylic Pour Swipes workshop and I think it was a great success. There was a great group of ladies in the studio this afternoon having lots of painty fun. Some were new to acrylic pouring and some had already done some playing and experimenting with it, but all had great results.

Debbie

Debbie

Francoise

Francoise

Francoise

Johanne

Johanne

Kelly

Kelly

Lisette

Lisette

Nancy

Nancy

Have you tried the Acrylic pour swipe yet? Be careful if you do, just like the dirty pour it's very addictive!

Keep Creating!

Wendy

Gelli Plate fun

It has been a few months since I've had my Gelli Plate out to play. So it was great fun to teach it to this amazing group of creative women for a day. In the Intro workshop we learn the basics of the Gelli Plate and do a lot of playing. At the end of the day we all made small books with one of our many prints. They did an awesome job.

Donna

Donna

Francoise

Guylain

Guylain

Johanne

Johanne

Spike

Spike

I definitely need to get my Gelli Plate out to play more often. I plan to do more experimenting and have some new workshops in the new year.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Acrylic Pour time again.

It was time for another Acrylic Pour workshop Yesterday. As usual it was great fun. I love seeing the colour combinations that people choose. I never get tired of seeing the magic of the pour. Today's students did a great job.

Addison- 8"x10" wood canvas

Addison- 8"x10" wood canvas

Joe- 10"x10" canvas board

Joe- 10"x10" canvas board

Rachel- 8"x10" wood canvas

Rachel- 8"x10" wood canvas

Spike- 5"x7" book boards

Spike- 5"x7" canvas boards for book covers

 Have you tried Acrylic pouring yet? What's your favourite colour combo?

Keep Creating.

Wendy