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How to Make Acrylic Paint Pouring Medium

Brittany Bly
In this tutorial, learn how to mix your own Acrylic Paint Pouring medium with Floetrol and Acrylic Paint!
Prep Time 5 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 oz. Acrylic Paint light weight, not heavy body
  • 2 oz. Floetrol

Plus:

  • A Small Amount of Water and/or Rubbing Alcohol

Optional:

  • A few drops of silicone
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Instructions
 

  • In a disposable cup, mix together equal parts acrylic paint and floetrol. Completely blend until smooth.
  • Using a popsicle stick, test your paint to see how liquid or solid it is by allowing the paint to run off the end of the stick. You need your paint to run, so that it can flow across the canvas. The texture you are looking for is like cream. If your paint is very liquid starting out, you may be done after this step. If it is too thick to run off the end of your popsicle stick, continue to the next step.
  • Add small amounts of water and rubbing alcohol and continue to mix thoroughly until these supplies are evenly mixed into your paint. Continue this process until you get the texture of cream and your paint runs off the end of the popsicle stick.
  • There are lots of different ways you can add silicone. The easiest is to just add a drop or two to your finished Acrylic Paint Pouring Medium and mix in thoroughly.
  • Pour your paint immediately as acrylic paint dries quickly!
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