Embellishing Your Acrylic Pours, Part 1: Steampunk Mermaid (010)

Watch Part 2 here:    • Embellishing Your Pours II: Steampunk Merm...  

I am having so much fun playing with embellishing my acrylic pours.

Below is a list of what I used with links.

This time I am using a chipboard steampunk mermaid. There is some time-lapse and some real time clips with talking in this video. I also played with different camera angles which was fun.

I will show you the final results hopefully in next video.I bought the chipboard pieces on Etsy. I hope this inspires you and give you ideas of what you can do. Let me know how it goes. Would love to hear from you.

Colors in this pour: Artist Loft Brilliant Blue, DecoArt Americana Quinacridone Gold Hue, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Cerulean Blue,
Craft Smart Pool Blue, Amsterdam Zinc White, Folk Art Color Shift Aqua Flash

Affiliate Links (if you purchase products used in this video through these links, I get a small cut, which in turn helps me to continue to make videos..thank you very much :) )

Steampunk Mermaids: https://amzn.to/2H6ILID

Regular Gel Matte Medium: https://amzn.to/2H62w2U

GAC 800: https://amzn.to/2q42uRb

Biosilk (dimethicone): https://amzn.to/2GyuOSC



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Safety

As someone who had an allergic reaction possibly to pouring with ingredients such as silicone and torching. I no longer use these methods. I am also very careful about safety which I wasn't at the time when I started.

While I use "safer for me" ingredients, an allergy to anything can occur at anytime. I do not claim that what I use is safe for you but am sharing that so far it has been safer for me to use. Every person's body is different so I suggest you try things one at time so if you have an allergy you will know what you were allergic to hopefully.

My recommendations are:

Please use proper ventilation at all times

Wear Gloves at all times (I still forget sometimes or take my gloves off too soon)

If you do decide to torch...which I do not recommend (we do not know what happens to these products when heated or their effect on our bodies), please...

Wear a respirator mask if torching, or using chemicals that are not normally used in acrylic painting nor have they been tested with heat.

Have a fire extinguisher handy if you torch. Make sure your Co2 alarm is in place and working.

I am in no way responsible for your safety or the results of your experiments, but I really want you to be safe.

Selling Your Paintings

A note on the longevity of paintings using non-traditional chemicals with acrylic paint. The truth is we don't know. They may last forever, they may last for a set amount of years. Most of us have only been using this medium for under five years so we do not know how long our paintings will last using ingredients like dimethicone for example.

If you are selling your paintings, my suggestion is to always varnish and seal your paintings. Let the buyer know you used non traditional ingredients. Since we don't know how long paintings will last with ingredients such as dimethicone for example, I think it is important to make the buyer aware.

Also you may want to switch to pouring medium, or GAC 800 and or GAC 100 for example which are made to be used with acrylic paint.

I have started to make sure to write a disclaimer on any paintings in which I use non traditional ingredients in my shop listings. :)