A PERFECT Pendulum Pour! 💙💛 Gradient Background With WVU Pendulum Art

Guys, I’m so happy! I finally figured out how to mix the PERFECT paint for a pendulum pour.
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Pendulum pours are a ton of fun! It involves hanging a cup or bottle from a string and then letting the cup spiral around over your canvas. Today I’m spicing it up by brushing a gradient background before doing the pendulum portion.
An ideal pendulum paint is thin but viscous - it needs to hold itself together in a thin stream, rather than breaking into droplets. House paint is excellent for this, but I wanted the freedom to use all my tube paint colors! Here’s the recipe I tried today, which worked really well:
1 part paint
2 parts untinted gloss house paint (Behr deep base, like you’d use for a bloom pour)
2 parts floetrol
Water to thin
My pendulum colors were Primary Yellow and Phthalo Blue by Blick Studio Acrylics. For the last blue color, I added some white semigloss house paint to the Phthalo blue.
My background colors were Titanium White and Olive Green by Creative Inspirations, and Burnt Umber by Blick Studio Acrylics. I used them straight from the tube/bottle, without thinning them.
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[@debramartin3966]

That's very cool! The end result reminds of the 'string art' we used to do in the 80's. Nice job! Let's see more of these! Thank you! ~Debra

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thank you!

[@lechatbotte.]

Absolutely terrific. Now I want to try this

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thank you Linda! Good luck!

[@debbiem6860]

Good morning all 🎉

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Hi Debbie!

[@debbiem6860]

Thank you for sharing 🎉

[@AnnaBlountArt]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[@alanna2378]

Absolutely Intriguing and Awesome sauce for sure! The light blue oval really fit the entire painting upon with the dark blue and yellow oval even the fact it makes a pendulum shape wanna see your collaboration with David your doing next week can't wait to see

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thanks Alanna! Now that I’ve figured out the paint mixture I hope to do more of these…

[@karengardner3501]

Very cool!🎉

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thank you!

[@isabelvera8464]

Men encantó tu arte en Pendulo👏🏻👏🏻🥰

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Muchas gracias!

[@michelleelle4622]

Very Cool indeed! Great job 👏 I’m rather surprised that the yellow and dark blue didn’t come together and mix into a green in any areas. I would love to see you do more of this!!

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thanks! Paints don’t normally blend unless they are mixed or agitated in some way. Simply dripping out over top of another color wouldn’t generally mix 😊

[@karengardner3501]

@@AnnaBlountArt thanks for the tip!

[@mywifetheartist]

Anna this is so cool and I love the design. ❤❤❤

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thanks so much!

[@tyjuanathomas3995]

Sweet ❤❤❤

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Thanks!

[@Kathy-3]

So so super cool, as you say. The one thing I would change is this brown colour. It is a bit imposing, thick, dark. I would try something more ocher.

[@AnnaBlountArt]

Well personally I love that deep brown color, but yes there are lots of color combos that would look good!

[@michelleelle4622]

17:10 Looking at the drop cloth gave me an idea. How about taking a large canvas angled underneath the smaller canvas so you can have two paintings in one? I think that would be pretty darn cool!

[@AnnaBlountArt]

That’s an interesting thought! Though I’d rather place canvases on either end of the “target” canvas to catch the outer spirals, rather than have a large painting that misses the inner rectangle…