Such finesse in the layout! Your awesome skills leave me awestruck by the way you presented your design and drawings of the octopus. Your creativity is certainly inspiring and impressive and the end results are amazingly beautiful and realistic! Excellent choice of colors too ! You have done yourself proud with this project. You make this look like a cake walk! Seriously excellent!❤❤❤❤
Hello! I would have never even thought to use a stencil & I have a Cricut! 😂🤷🏽♀️ This is very beautiful. I too, love ALL things ocean. I will come up with my own artistic idea, and thank you so much for helping me enlarge my skill set! ❤️
Did a homemade stencil of “California” and put it on a canvas couple days ago, waiting for it to dry completely before finishing. Just started trying these “pour/swipe/blow dryer” techniques 3days ago and so far they are looking fabulous. (Well for beginner “fabulous” lol) Really and truly appreciate all the wonderful and beautiful art you have been creating! the inspiration, knowledge and guidance you provide is priceless, thanks for sharing these gifts & beauty with the U n I verse ❤️💛💚👁💚💛❤️
You're right; it DID turn out incredible! I love octopi in general and especially since I read, thirty years ago, a lone article mentioning octopi as symbols of emotional anguish. Finding beauty in anguish can give me hope for a brighter day; and I have an octopus tattooed on my right (dominant) hand. I wish I'd asked the article's owner (it was in a waiting room) for a copy. If the CT Maritime research mini-cruises on Long Island Sound reopen before end of season, I'm hoping to go with my husband. I went once before, twenty years ago, and it was amazing. I really want to visit their new sturgeon touch tank exhibit. This is a museum I really want to support because of how hard they worked on kids' virtual exhibits during the pandemic, as well as how dedicated they are to preserving the Sound. You know I'll wind up thinking about this and your seahorse microswipes when we're there!
I enjoy watchibg how you mix different methods. Thr stencils are a great idea. I want yo try the glue gun also. I enjoy your videos. You're friendly and, informative but not overly chatty. Sell those paintings!
I have to say this piece is incredible! Good job! Also I have been towing around with doing this but wondered how well the stencil would pull up with paint on top of it since it's not cut out. I'm going to try it now! Thank you. Just what I was looking for.
Wow! Looks fantastic! Love both octopus & background - both look realistically lovely. The varnish really did make Ocean colors "pop" very nicely. What type of varnish do you use? I too love ocean creatures, of all kinds ~ octopuses are SO smart, 1 of my favorites! Mantis Shrimp is another, much tinier fave - feisty little guy! This really looks great!! The glow in dark paint might be almost ethereal looking. Curious to know how that worked out, or if it got 'lost' in the other colors?
Thank you! I use liquitex basics gloss varnish, and I have a how to video in my tips and tricks playlist. Unfortunately the glow in the dark paint did get mostly lost…
I did this with scotch tape, making sure the canvas had the tape raised so the pour on a pour didn’t overflow. It was much harder to apply but it was MUCH easier to get up and didn’t pull like the vinyl
Hi Anna, I just found you site and really enjoyed it. I’m a Floridian so I alsoamin love with all things ocean. Where is your favorite place to get stencils? I have small ones from a church Halloween face painting but would like to find larger ones. Thanks in advance!!
I’m glad you liked it! I found a vector image online and had a friend make the stencil on their cricut. For reusable plastic stencils, I get them on Amazon!
Question: My experience with stencils is that you never let the paint dry before lifting it. What compelled you to do so? Was it because you were going to just throw it away?
Good question! This was a vinyl stencil which was only going to be single-use. If I had purchased a plastic stencil, I would have used thicker-bodied paint and removed the stencil while the paint was wet.
Yes, good catch! Unfortunately the glow-in-the-dark paint was barely visible at the end ☹️ So I actually forgot to talk about it on camera because it was so nonexistent, haha.
The finished product looks amazing! Would you be so kind as to say what kind of varnish you use? I'm a newbie to pouring, but love using metallics as well, and would like to have those pop like yours when sealing it. Thank you!
Hi Anna I love this octopus, it is stunning. How do you get the cells to form in the octopus when swiping over a dry background though? Is it the floetrol or silicone that causes the reaction? I practiced your seahorse swipe and got cells. That seemed to work because it was wet blue silicone mix swiped over wet white acrylic background.
Thank you! Because all the octopus paint has silicone in it, cells will form as the paint rubs against each other (such as by tilting or swiping). Swiping across a plain background color causes the lacy fade-out bubbles.
Your art tutorials are fantastic I am learning so much watching you work, I noticed you have a flow art picture in your background sometimes, which looks like fun ghost, would you point me in the right direction to watch your tutorial on that one? I would love to give it a try, thanks JB United kingdom.
Thank you! Yes, it was one of my first videos I put up! Good luck… ADORABLE Fluid Painted Ghost Family! Full Acrylic Pour Tutorial th-cam.com/video/7gygoRcWLXo/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much! I used Liquitex Basics gloss varnish - two heavy coats. I have a video on how I varnish paintings (the link should pop up in the top right corner of the video when it shows the varnished painting)
@@AnnaBlountArt oh cool - thx! You inspire me with the sea animals! I just did a stencil with a bubbled background and metallic blues seahorse. It's one of my faves! I didn't know if I was "cheating" using a stencil because I was trying to replicate your seahorse.. haha
To be honest, i hoped you'd leave the body alone and swipe the tentacles. But who am i to judge. Thank you for sharing and encouraging those of us who fear the process and risking mistakes.
@@bonniedavis5238 right, sorry about that. I call this a “medium-thin” consistency. It flows very well off the stick and leaves a little mound in the cup. Not as thin as a dutch pour but thinner than some others.
@@AnnaBlountArt - just practice on a scrap piece of board... keeping the palette knife at a relatively stable angle, swipe paint from top to bottom (vertically).... and while moving the palette knife from top to bottom, simultaneously start to rotate the canvas to the left and then to the right to make smooth turns... you'll get it. Good Luck and have fun!
@@markb6442 oh I see, you were saying to rotate the canvas to help make the curved swipes go easier. I didn’t have it on my spinner this time, though that would be one thing to try if I wasn’t happy with my swipes.
As a child I was taught if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. I wish everyone had learned that lesson 🙄 I love your work Anna. I grew up by the sea and this resonates with me!
Such finesse in the layout! Your awesome skills leave me awestruck by the way you presented your design and drawings of the octopus. Your creativity is certainly inspiring and impressive and the end results are amazingly beautiful and realistic! Excellent choice of colors too ! You have done yourself proud with this project. You make this look like a cake walk! Seriously excellent!❤❤❤❤
It’s amazing! So exciting! Oh, the ideas. 😂
Thank you! Good luck with all your ideas!
Such finesse in the layout! Your awesome skills leave me awestruck by the way you presented your design and drawings of the octopus. Your creativity is certainly inspiring and impressive and the end results are amazingly beautiful and realistic! Excellent choice of colors too ! You have done yourself proud with this project. You make this look like a cake walk! Seriously excellent!❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much, Matthew! I did not design the stencil myself, but I did pick it carefully in order to make it look realistic! 😊
Just so wonderful !
@@Kathy-3 thank you!
Hello! I would have never even thought to use a stencil & I have a Cricut! 😂🤷🏽♀️
This is very beautiful.
I too, love ALL things ocean.
I will come up with my own artistic idea, and thank you so much for helping me enlarge my skill set! ❤️
Thank you! I hope your stencil endeavors are successful!
Amazing to watch you do that. Well done.
Thank you Sandra!
Excellent shading technique at the end 28 min to 29 min!
Thank you!
Beautiful job! Digging this octopus in the deep blue sea!🐙 🌊
Thanks so much, Linda!
Fabulous. Great work
Thanks so much!
Your work is fantastic
Thanks so much!
Well done!
Thank you!
Excelente muy bellos trabajos Anita gracias por todo
Muchas gracias!
Great job! Try a jellyfish! Use the search, and you'll find several.
Thanks! I have done a few jellyfish…I have a video of a beautiful pink one that I put up last summer!
Awesome job!
Thank you!
Thr white dots you added all ended.up in the perfect place.
Yes it worked out really well!
Absolutely awesome and beautiful 😊🎉🎉❤
I love using stencils from my Cricut! The painting looks awesome, Anna!
Thank you! Yes I’d like to do more like this!
Wonderful wonderful ❤️💛💚🙏🏾
Thanks so much!
Did a homemade stencil of “California” and put it on a canvas couple days ago, waiting for it to dry completely before finishing. Just started trying these “pour/swipe/blow dryer” techniques 3days ago and so far they are looking fabulous. (Well for beginner “fabulous” lol) Really and truly appreciate all the wonderful and beautiful art you have been creating! the inspiration, knowledge and guidance you provide is priceless, thanks for sharing these gifts & beauty with the U n I verse ❤️💛💚👁💚💛❤️
@@scottsharp1763 I’m glad you’re having good results, and that my videos are helping!
Looks amazing!
Thank you!
That’s so awesome ❤
Thank you!
The custest 😍 Thanks for sharing
Thank YOU!
Oh I so love that!
I’m so glad!
Wow! Just wow wow wow!
Thanks so much!!
WoW 😮 that is absolutely amazing
Thank you so much!
Beautiful
Thank you!
You're right; it DID turn out incredible! I love octopi in general and especially since I read, thirty years ago, a lone article mentioning octopi as symbols of emotional anguish. Finding beauty in anguish can give me hope for a brighter day; and I have an octopus tattooed on my right (dominant) hand. I wish I'd asked the article's owner (it was in a waiting room) for a copy.
If the CT Maritime research mini-cruises on Long Island Sound reopen before end of season, I'm hoping to go with my husband. I went once before, twenty years ago, and it was amazing. I really want to visit their new sturgeon touch tank exhibit. This is a museum I really want to support because of how hard they worked on kids' virtual exhibits during the pandemic, as well as how dedicated they are to preserving the Sound. You know I'll wind up thinking about this and your seahorse microswipes when we're there!
Thank you! That’s really neat!
I enjoy watchibg how you mix different methods. Thr stencils are a great idea. I want yo try the glue gun also. I enjoy your videos. You're friendly and, informative but not overly chatty. Sell those paintings!
Thank you! I did sell this one! 😊
Love it ❤
Thank you!
Great job, Anna!! This is fantasic! 😍
Thanks Nikki!
I always enjoy watching your videos. Sharing 😊
Thanks!
Your welcome Anna.
Meraviglioso 😊
Grazie mille!
This is awesome!❤
I have to say this piece is incredible! Good job! Also I have been towing around with doing this but wondered how well the stencil would pull up with paint on top of it since it's not cut out. I'm going to try it now! Thank you. Just what I was looking for.
Aw thank you! I’m so glad it was helpful.
Wow! The end result looks AWESOME!
Thanks so much!
@@AnnaBlountArt I would to try it, it would definitely be a challenge! 🙂
@@klmmc Go for it!
What a wonderful job you have done ✔ 👏 💚. Just beautiful work. Thanks for sharing your great art work 👍 😀
Thank you Ann!
Great job Anna!! I just found your videos!! Just subscribed!! Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing!! Enjoy your day!!
Thank you Judy!
AWESOME!! Absolutely love it! 👏👏👏
Thank you so much!
Wow! Looks fantastic! Love both octopus & background - both look realistically lovely. The varnish really did make Ocean colors "pop" very nicely. What type of varnish do you use?
I too love ocean creatures, of all kinds ~ octopuses are SO smart, 1 of my favorites! Mantis Shrimp is another, much tinier fave - feisty little guy! This really looks great!! The glow in dark paint might be almost ethereal looking. Curious to know how that worked out, or if it got 'lost' in the other colors?
Thank you! I use liquitex basics gloss varnish, and I have a how to video in my tips and tricks playlist.
Unfortunately the glow in the dark paint did get mostly lost…
Oh my! that is truly magical and so dimensional!!!! thank you! i really love the stencil method! ❤😅Thank you so very much!!!
Thank YOU!
Really nice piece!
Thank you so much!
Really inspired,😊
Thanks Ellie!
I did this with scotch tape, making sure the canvas had the tape raised so the pour on a pour didn’t overflow. It was much harder to apply but it was MUCH easier to get up and didn’t pull like the vinyl
Cool! What kind of scotch tape? Like regular clear tape, or masking tape or blue tape?
Hi Anna, I just found you site and really enjoyed it. I’m a Floridian so I alsoamin love with all things ocean. Where is your favorite place to get stencils? I have small ones from a church Halloween face painting but would like to find larger ones. Thanks in advance!!
I’m glad you liked it! I found a vector image online and had a friend make the stencil on their cricut. For reusable plastic stencils, I get them on Amazon!
Question: My experience with stencils is that you never let the paint dry before lifting it. What compelled you to do so? Was it because you were going to just throw it away?
Good question! This was a vinyl stencil which was only going to be single-use. If I had purchased a plastic stencil, I would have used thicker-bodied paint and removed the stencil while the paint was wet.
Amazing! But wasn't there glow in the dark paint as well? How did that turn out?
Yes, good catch! Unfortunately the glow-in-the-dark paint was barely visible at the end ☹️ So I actually forgot to talk about it on camera because it was so nonexistent, haha.
The finished product looks amazing!
Would you be so kind as to say what kind of varnish you use? I'm a newbie to pouring, but love using metallics as well, and would like to have those pop like yours when sealing it.
Thank you!
Thank you! I use liquitex basics gloss varnish, and I have a video on my process in my Tips and Tricks playlist!
@@AnnaBlountArt
I'll check that playlist out
Appreciate you!
I love this 😍 what a great technique. Thanks for a great video ❤️
Thank YOU!
Adorable
Thank you so much!
Hi Anna😊 I am a new sub and wanna say how beautiful this piece is wow😍 definitely inspired me to give stencils a go, thank you 🤗🤩
Hi Sharon, welcome! Thank you so much, and good luck with yours!
@@AnnaBlountArt ahh thank you Anna🤗💖🖌️🎨
Gorgeous painting! What do you use to seal your acrylic pours?
Thank you! I use liquitex basics gloss varnish. I have a video showing the process in my tips and tricks playlist!
This octopus looks so realistic. The varnish completes
Thanks! Yes I’m so happy with it and love how the varnish adds so much depth.
Hi Anna
I love this octopus, it is stunning. How do you get the cells to form in the octopus when swiping over a dry background though? Is it the floetrol or silicone that causes the reaction? I practiced your seahorse swipe and got cells. That seemed to work because it was wet blue silicone mix swiped over wet white acrylic background.
Thank you! Because all the octopus paint has silicone in it, cells will form as the paint rubs against each other (such as by tilting or swiping). Swiping across a plain background color causes the lacy fade-out bubbles.
@@AnnaBlountArt thank you for your reply. Ahhh ... I will give that a try!! I have still only been experimenting with one colour at a time.
Love the painting!! What varnish do you use?
Thank you! I use Liquitex basics gloss varnish. I have a video in my Tips and Tricks playlist!
What do u use for your varnish, it’s beautiful!
Thank you! I use Liquitex basics gloss varnish. There’s a video of my process in my “Tips and Tricks” playlist!
Also thought the back ground came out great so 3D.. Anything else would have taken away from your vision.. Gorgeous
Thank you! Yes it ended up perfect 😊
Your art tutorials are fantastic I am learning so much watching you work, I noticed you have a flow art picture in your background sometimes, which looks like fun ghost, would you point me in the right direction to watch your tutorial on that one? I would love to give it a try, thanks JB United kingdom.
Thank you!
Yes, it was one of my first videos I put up! Good luck…
ADORABLE Fluid Painted Ghost Family! Full Acrylic Pour Tutorial
th-cam.com/video/7gygoRcWLXo/w-d-xo.html
Is the floetrol you are using American or Australian?
American!
That was amazing!! What varnish did you use? It looks like resin?
Thank you so much! I used Liquitex Basics gloss varnish - two heavy coats. I have a video on how I varnish paintings (the link should pop up in the top right corner of the video when it shows the varnished painting)
@@AnnaBlountArt oh cool - thx! You inspire me with the sea animals! I just did a stencil with a bubbled background and metallic blues seahorse. It's one of my faves! I didn't know if I was "cheating" using a stencil because I was trying to replicate your seahorse.. haha
@@danapowers2102 Haha no worries…you can be inspired by a painting and have the freedom to create your own version!
Can you tell us where we can get a stencil or original copy of the octopus?
Do a google search for “octopus vector file” and then find a friend with a cricut! 😆 or you could check Etsy for a vinyl octopus stencil.
To be honest, i hoped you'd leave the body alone and swipe the tentacles. But who am i to judge. Thank you for sharing and encouraging those of us who fear the process and risking mistakes.
Yes the poured design looked really nice before I swiped it, didn’t it? I don’t think that thought even crossed my mind until I watched it back 😆
@AnnaBlountArt fully understand that as I am guilty of acting before I give myself time...
I wish you would try to show us how thick the paint is I could not see how thick it is thank you
The painting looks really cool
Thanks! You mean in the cup? Or how thick a layer I put down?
Yes you can almost see when you stirring them
@@AnnaBlountArt when your stirring them you can almost see about how thick they should be
@@bonniedavis5238 right, sorry about that. I call this a “medium-thin” consistency. It flows very well off the stick and leaves a little mound in the cup. Not as thin as a dutch pour but thinner than some others.
😍🥰😘🐙
Thanks!
Could you have heated up the stencil to help remove.?
Hm, I’m not sure. I don’t know why that would have done to the paint. Possibly, though.
I need to find a friend with a cricut
Yes it was much easier than cutting my own stencil out of blue tape, haha!
@@AnnaBlountArt it stuck down pretty good with the heat gun trick
@@lauriewilson4741 Yes it did!
I think some seaweed would have been welcome.
If you want seaweed in the background, wait a week or two and I’ll have another 2-layer sea creature for you!
I think your beautiful octopus is a little lonely, some greenery and or shell, fish, etc. would be fantastic.
That’s a good thought, though I like the solitary guy in the depths
iF YOU PEEL THE PAPER BACK AT A 90 DEGREE ANGLE MUCH EASIER AND IT DOESNT COME UP
Thanks! Yes, peeling it up definitely takes practice.
spin the canvas in the direction of curved swipes...
Which direction is that, since they go out in multiple directions?
@@AnnaBlountArt - just practice on a scrap piece of board... keeping the palette knife at a relatively stable angle, swipe paint from top to bottom (vertically).... and while moving the palette knife from top to bottom, simultaneously start to rotate the canvas to the left and then to the right to make smooth turns... you'll get it. Good Luck and have fun!
@@markb6442 oh I see, you were saying to rotate the canvas to help make the curved swipes go easier. I didn’t have it on my spinner this time, though that would be one thing to try if I wasn’t happy with my swipes.
It looks like a stencil. The lines are to sharp. Not crazy about it.
Well a stencil will generally look like a stencil…
As a child I was taught if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. I wish everyone had learned that lesson 🙄 I love your work Anna. I grew up by the sea and this resonates with me!
@@bonniebawn7140 Thanks Bonnie!
I wasn’t criticizing, you do beautiful work. I watch you all the time. If you don’t want an opinion I won’t comment.
@@MJCronkhite-ik3qy I’m happy to hear your opinion! I’m glad you enjoy my videos.
Such finesse in the layout! Your awesome skills leave me awestruck by the way you presented your design and drawings of the octopus. Your creativity is certainly inspiring and impressive and the end results are amazingly beautiful and realistic! Excellent choice of colors too ! You have done yourself proud with this project. You make this look like a cake walk! Seriously excellent!❤❤❤❤