Ring Pour Technique - #Fluid Art #Art #AcrylicPainting #PaintPouring

 I recently did a series of Ring Pours in Rainbow Colors.

What is a Ring Pour?

There are a few different techniques for a Ring Pour.  This one that I did was what they call a Tree Ring Pour, as the rings look like tree rings from when you cut a tree down and see their growth rings.

The unique bands of color that circle each other without blending are the beauty of a tree ring pour. It takes more than mastering the physical technique of twisting your hand as you pour to keep this form of painting from becoming an undefined, muddy mess.

While transparent colors create soft blending affects in fluid art, opaque colors are the best if you want prominent tree ring contrast. Opaque colors are less likely to dominate or cover up one another so much.

How do You Do a Ring Pour?

The secret to making tree rings is to stack each paint color in your cup as much as possible to avoid them mingling. From the side, a perfect tree ring cup will resemble layers of cake.

Thicker paint makes this task easier in this situation since the colors are less likely to mix as you pour them into your cup. 

You should avoid using water to thin your paint in this method, if you regularly do so. You might also make your paint mixes thicker by utilising just heavy body acrylics (no fluid acrylics).  But, in these ring pours I did actually use pre-mixed paints. 

To avoid overmixing, carefully pour each color into your cup.  Keep in mind that the first color you put in your cup will be the last color to come out, and hence the most dominate. So, layer accordingly to how you want your finished pour to look.

Once you have layered the colors in the cup, the next step is to carefully pour the paint onto your painting surface of choice, canvas, board or whatever you choose.

I usually start from the center and slowly let the paint flow while making a circular movement to create the rings. 

Once the paint is down on your surface, you may want to check for air bubbles, and, then we do the tilt. 

Slowly tilting the canvas to each corner to let the paint flow, while trying to keep the circular shape as much as possible. Which is not always easy, and, quite often the end result is not circular at all. But, still quite stunning no matter how they turn out.

It's never a good idea to overstretch when you tilt, but it's especially bad for a tree ring pour. The more you tilt, the more the colors mix and become a muddy jumble. Use additional paint in your cup to keep your lines crisp so you only have to tilt your cup a bit to cover your canvas.

You can also add extra paint around the edges to help with tilting so that your ring will move more easily as you tilt.

My five ring pours all together in the picture above.  Below are some more images from my pour.

Below is a quick YouTube Video showing my Blue Ring Pour from above from start to finish.

The paints I used for the Rainbow Ring Pour Collection were all Mont Marte in a variety of rainbow colors.

I also uploaded images of these pours digitally enhanced to my Redbubble Store. They look really good on some of their products..

The Blue Ring Pour enhanced for a shower curtain.

The Pink Ring Pour in a Floor cushion.

The Green Ring Pour in an Apron.

Purple and Blue Ring Pour in a cute Skirt.

Orange Yellow and Red Ring Pour in a shower curtain.

As you can see by the above examples, the designs have come out beautifully on them.  Please check out my Redbubble Store for all the other products as well. 

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