Many people use this art by leaving it to chance... using a hair dryer or just by turning a cup upside down and tilting the board from bottom to top and from right to left. But you! you are a true creator! an artist! Your subjects are thought out and considered beforehand and you rework your paintings when they are dry to enhance them. You make magnificent paintings. Well done to you! 👏😍
They would look stunning in a bathroom, you could do as many as u wanted depending on the underwater creatures u want to do, whale, starfish, shells would be lovely too 😊❤
I appreciate your voice walking us through the tutorial , about the prices of painting the butterfly fish. Please do a starfish one day. Again thank you.
Anna, To get a clean line on your front edge, get some clear hair gel, use your finger to go along the edge of the tape in the area you want the clean line on, let the hair gel dry, then paint as you normally would. The clear hair gel fills in the bumpy areas, so when your paint goes down all that's left for the paint to cover is a smooth surface, leaving very clean lines on your leading edge. Hope this helps you. Fabulous job my friend 😁😎🙏💖💖
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Love both of your sea creatures! A tip: If you put down your tape then paint a thin layer of white around the edge and let it dry it will prevent your colors from seeping underneath! Love your work!!👍🏼😍
That's a beautiful butterfly fish you pour painted! Or better, you swipe painted! 🐠 👍😉 What happens if one doesn't clean the swiper, every time? Too much paint? Coz, I one could forget to clean it before the next swipe. Looking forward to the next sea and marine creature! 😁🐳🐟🐋🐠👍
Beautiful! Idea for avoiding bleeding of the paint under the tape: prepaint the edge with a little white paint so that will fill the gaps. After drying you can do your painting and it cannot bleed. Saves time touching up.
Your seahorse video popped up out of nowhere, and I thought, ugh, another fluid acrylic “artist.” And then I watched it, and woman, you rocked it! So, I started watching your other videos, and you nailed those too! You are a wonderful artist. I may pre-judge people for superficial reasons and/or absolutely no reason at all, but I admit when I’m wrong. I am glad that your initial video popped up into my feed out of nowhere. Seriously, you are a wonderful, talented artist. Your work is beautiful.
I agree with the woman below Matters of the h'ART by Nat, you are an outstanding artist, and a sweet person. I can learn from someone like you. A great teacher, I enjoy how natural and organic that your paintings take on as you go. There's so much to say, but most of all thank you, so much for your channel, I will share your work with my friends. I for sure subscribed to your channel, anyone can learn these techniques from you. Again thank you
Wow… this piece is just beautiful Anna!! So well done and you are an amazing teacher… I think it is commendable that you are so willing to share your techniques and your talent! This is something I really want to try, so thank you!! I would love to see you do the jellyfish! ♥️♥️🇦🇺
Ann, the fish is great! Yes, more swiping of sea creatures please. I did the seahorse the other day, it came out lovely. Maybe a jelly fish of a dolphin. I’ll copy your fish as well. And thank you for showing us how to do it, how to correct the mistakes, it does make it easier for all of us to follow. Great job!
Thank you! I’d love to try a stingray sometime. Jellyfish I do with a slightly different technique but I’ve never filmed one! I’ll have to do that soon.
Wow this is super amazing painting and very nice illustrations .. it’s very unique and incredible. Thank am very happy to have opportunities watching your painting process. I am new friend here keep sharing.
O………. M………. G……….. This is absolutely incredible, you have definitely created magic with this, the seahorse was crazy awesome & this is insanely awesome. I absolutely love your work. You are such an inspiration 🙏❤️🤩
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Hi u were wondering how to make the tail. You make the whole fish then add the tail. Fish don't have triangular bodies lol. It's a unique look. It's a beautiful painting
Hi Anna, I love your videos. I live in UK and finding it hard to find floatol ! Do you know what I could use as substitute please ? Plus is the white background just household wall paint. Thank you.
Thanks Lesley! I believe Owatrol makes a floetrol that is available in the UK. The white background is acrylic craft paint mixed with floetrol and water like my other paints. I usually only use house paint as the background for a “bloom” pour.
Thank you! I made the swipe tools by cutting a piece of laminator sheet. But you could use a piece of paper towel or a putty knife or something instead…
Just found your channel and I love it! You are the best, so fun and so easy to follow (even though mine look like sh#t), I'll keep trying and thank you!
Thank you so much! Haha sorry you haven’t gotten the results you want…start simple, and once you have a feel for the particular technique then try something more complex! Good luck!
My paint is mixed with American floetrol at about 2:1 floetrol to paint. My paint brands are in the video description, as well as a link to a video that shows how to mix paint with floetrol!
Hello from Canada. I love your videos, i'm new to your channel and loving it. Could you please tell which floetrol your using? And have you experimented with coconut hair serum for cells yet? Being a beginner, I tend to have crazing and cracking in a couple of my pieces, and since I read on my American floetrol bottle, that lead is leaked with cracking of paintings. I'm not sure if the Australian floetrol has the same, as in Canada I cannot purchase it anywhere. Please do tell my dear, thank you
Hi! I am using US Floetrol. And yes I used the hair serum for cells before buying my silicone oil and it worked very well! Crazing/cracking is often linked to a poor quality paint. For me, I found that apple barrel white paint cracked like crazy, so I stopped using it and used other brands instead. Another possibility is that your paintings are drying too quickly, which can result in a cracked surface. Good luck!
@@AnnaBlountArt thank you very much. I use mont marte paints as well as liquitex paints for black and whites. Other colors I use for practice pieces are usually folk art paints. I do live in an apartment, so I think maybe it's the quick drying. Thank you again for your help and your videos
I make a sketch on parchment paper, lay tape over it, then flip over the paper and cut it out with scissors. Then I peel it up and lay it on the canvas!
Beautiful, I love both the fish and seahorse, I have to try this I think a Jellyfish would be cool as well, I have not liked using silicone so I will have to perfect my cell activation with out it, I just started watching your channel, what do you use as far as resin or varnish? Thank you for sharing your technique 👏💕
Thanks so much! Yeah I’ve made jellyfish but with a different technique. Gotta find time to make another because none of the three I’ve made previously were filmed! I use gloss varnish to finish my pieces.
Hello, I love this. I looked through the comments, & I apologize if you answered this already. Did you put your colors on the canvas in a particular order or just mix it up?
Thanks so much! The first color or two after the front edge color will be the most prominent, so I did layer them so as to have some contrast between the colors. But it really isn’t an exact science, and I’m sure it’ll look great no matter how you put them out!
As the seahorse, kind thuis one very much. But my personal taste is no polka dots. Still wander what would happen if you would use a blow-dryer softly to spread the paint.... Love from the Netherlands, Daniëlle 🙋
Haha I mis-spoke in the video. My paint is mixed with floetrol and thinned with water, and 1 drop of silicone oil per color of paint. Check the description and you’ll find details and a paint-mixing video!
Thanks! Yeah I hesitate to paint over the tape because I don’t want to create a ridge of dried paint in this particular design. But it’s a great thought for other paintings that use tape!
Instead of wiping up where the paint went under the tape couldn’t you take some sort of a utensil and feather/swirl those bits of paint into the background color making it look intentional instead of wiping it off and then repainting little flex of paint that end up looking more uniform and less organic. I like the organic look of where the paint saved under the tape, personally… But this is whyThere is a saying “to each his own” beautiful work thank you for sharing your time in your talent
Because I’m lazy 😂 Squeeze bottles would make the painting process faster but the prep and cleanup would take longer. Cups and sticks seems a bit messy but it saves a lot of time so that’s what I typically do!
Suggestion! Perhaps the next ocean picture you do with fish or marine life, let the entire painting dry and put some lacey kelp and sea grasses in there, across the finished picture. I notice that you used apple barrel paint. I had a terrible thing happen using that paint. Maybe I just had a bad batch, but I added something to dry apple barrel then did not like it and the apple barrel that was dry WIPED OFF when I wiped off the added paint! I have never used apple barrel since. And that has never happened with any other type of paint I have used. If you decide to use the lacey sea plant idea, before you try it out, Please make a test project and let it dry completely first then test that your paint is not ruined if you decide you do NOT like the plant effect and try to change it. Your work is to gorgeous to ruin it with a bad paint. Please be careful. That would make me cry!
Many people use this art by leaving it to chance... using a hair dryer or just by turning a cup upside down and tilting the board from bottom to top and from right to left. But you! you are a true creator! an artist! Your subjects are thought out and considered beforehand and you rework your paintings when they are dry to enhance them. You make magnificent paintings. Well done to you! 👏😍
Thank you so much!
They would look stunning in a bathroom, you could do as many as u wanted depending on the underwater creatures u want to do, whale, starfish, shells would be lovely too 😊❤
Thanks! Yes it’s a very versatile technique.
LOVED that seahorse so I had to watch the fish. Just as cool!
Thank you! I’m glad you liked them!
You are amazing and to share is just spreading your love. Give your love away it’s the ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!
Wow definitely gonna try this and seahorse, beautiful, hello from England 🏴 ❤
Thanks! Good luck!
Great art work. l like the seahorse and your fly fish 🐟 art.
Thank you!
I appreciate your voice walking us through the tutorial , about the prices of painting the butterfly fish.
Please do a starfish one day. Again thank you.
Thanks! A starfish sure would be pretty!
Beautiful work, thank you for encouraging me for acrylic painting work ❤
Thank you! Best of luck with yours!
Oh yes, another beautiful treat!!!
❤⚘😊⚘❤
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
This is so beautiful and your videos are very inspiring and informative. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much! I’m glad you are enjoying them.
Love love love this and all your sea creatures 😊🎉🎉🎉❤
Thanks a bunch!
Anna,
To get a clean line on your front edge, get some clear hair gel, use your finger to go along the edge of the tape in the area you want the clean line on, let the hair gel dry, then paint as you normally would. The clear hair gel fills in the bumpy areas, so when your paint goes down all that's left for the paint to cover is a smooth surface, leaving very clean lines on your leading edge.
Hope this helps you.
Fabulous job my friend 😁😎🙏💖💖
Thank you! Yes I’ve learned a lot about getting a clean tape edge after painting this!
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Love both of your sea creatures!
A tip: If you put down your tape then paint a thin layer of white around the edge and let it dry it will prevent your colors from seeping underneath!
Love your work!!👍🏼😍
Thank you!
Brilliant, I love this technique you do! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🕊️✌️😀😃😄😁🤗
Thank you! Me too!
Super beautiful!
Thank you so much, Olga!
Stunning!
Thank you!
That's a beautiful butterfly fish you pour painted! Or better, you swipe painted! 🐠 👍😉
What happens if one doesn't clean the swiper, every time? Too much paint? Coz, I one could forget to clean it before the next swipe.
Looking forward to the next sea and marine creature! 😁🐳🐟🐋🐠👍
Thank you! If you don’t wipe the swipe tool each time, you’ll get streaks of muddy paint colors in your design.
Beautiful! Idea for avoiding bleeding of the paint under the tape: prepaint the edge with a little white paint so that will fill the gaps. After drying you can do your painting and it cannot bleed. Saves time touching up.
Thanks! Yes I’ve learned a lot of tape tricks since making this painting 🙂
Stunning, I love it
Thank you Darlene!
Wow, I love this one as much as the seahorse! I have to try this, thank you for showing us how! ❤️
Thanks, yeah I love the fish too 😁
Your swipes are wonderful. My daughter is doing nautical bathroom and wants a seahorse and fish!
Thank you! I assume you will make them for her? Good luck!
Your seahorse video popped up out of nowhere, and I thought, ugh, another fluid acrylic “artist.” And then I watched it, and woman, you rocked it! So, I started watching your other videos, and you nailed those too! You are a wonderful artist. I may pre-judge people for superficial reasons and/or absolutely no reason at all, but I admit when I’m wrong. I am glad that your initial video popped up into my feed out of nowhere. Seriously, you are a wonderful, talented artist. Your work is beautiful.
Aw thank you so much!!
SUPERB!!
Thank you very much!
I agree with the woman below Matters of the h'ART by Nat, you are an outstanding artist, and a sweet person. I can learn from someone like you. A great teacher, I enjoy how natural and organic that your paintings take on as you go. There's so much to say, but most of all thank you, so much for your channel, I will share your work with my friends. I for sure subscribed to your channel, anyone can learn these techniques from you. Again thank you
Thank you so much!
Way cool , I love it !
Thanks Merry!
You are an outstanding teacher! I love this.
Thank you so much!
Beautiful❤
Thank you!
This one partnered with the seahorse would make a beautiful set on the wall of any home! Great idea.
I thought so too! Actually the lady who bought the seahorse commissioned an even bigger fish to go in the same room 😁
Lovely cheery fish! Laura ❤
Thanks!
I’ve been wanting to do a whale like this for years so when I found your sea horse video I was so excited.
Great! Good luck on your whale!
Great job
Thank you!
Love it!
Thank you!
Wow… this piece is just beautiful Anna!! So well done and you are an amazing teacher… I think it is commendable that you are so willing to share your techniques and your talent! This is something I really want to try, so thank you!! I would love to see you do the jellyfish! ♥️♥️🇦🇺
Thanks so much! I did do a jellyfish a few weeks ago. You can find it in my ocean art playlist!
You are so talented! Love this and with all your details in the video, it makes me feel like I could do this too! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
Thank you! Best of luck if you ever try it yourself!
Bellissimo complimenti 😊
Grazie!
Love love love! You could make a purple sea fan for a trio 😊
Thank you! That’s a cool idea, I love purple sea fans.
Amazing
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing
Sure thing! Thanks for watching!
Ann, the fish is great! Yes, more swiping of sea creatures please. I did the seahorse the other day, it came out lovely. Maybe a jelly fish of a dolphin.
I’ll copy your fish as well. And thank you for showing us how to do it, how to correct the mistakes, it does make it easier for all of us to follow.
Great job!
Thank you! I’d love to try a stingray sometime. Jellyfish I do with a slightly different technique but I’ve never filmed one! I’ll have to do that soon.
@@AnnaBlountArt
I’d love to see your jelly fish. Stingray sounds cool!!!!😉
You got skills and awesome creativity 👍.
Thank you so much!
How stunning. This is so grand.
Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful seahorse.Great job👍
BEAUTIFUL! I think this is terrific. Thank you so much!
Thank YOU!
Wow this is super amazing painting and very nice illustrations .. it’s very unique and incredible. Thank am very happy to have opportunities watching your painting process. I am new friend here keep sharing.
Thanks so much!
Gorgeous
Thanks!
Beautiful !!
Thank you!!
That’s really awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it!
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This is absolutely incredible, you have definitely created magic with this, the seahorse was crazy awesome & this is insanely awesome. I absolutely love your work. You are such an inspiration 🙏❤️🤩
Aw thank you so much!
Stunning
Looks great!
Thankya!
That looks awesome!
Thanks a bunch!
Great fish!! Love the details in him ❤❤ Hey I have kinfolk in WV. Huntington, Barboursville area.
Thanks so much! Yeah I’m in Pendleton County.
Thanks!
Thank YOU!!
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Hi u were wondering how to make the tail. You make the whole fish then add the tail. Fish don't have triangular bodies lol. It's a unique look. It's a beautiful painting
Thanks! It’s modeled after a butterflyfish
Hi Anna, I love your videos. I live in UK and finding it hard to find floatol ! Do you know what I could use as substitute please ? Plus is the white background just household wall paint.
Thank you.
Thanks Lesley!
I believe Owatrol makes a floetrol that is available in the UK.
The white background is acrylic craft paint mixed with floetrol and water like my other paints. I usually only use house paint as the background for a “bloom” pour.
Try gloss medium under the tape, less bleed.
Thanks! For this technique it doesn’t matter if it bleeds a bit, but I’d like to try that method for overlaying one design onto a finished background!
I love watching you work I just have a question what is apple barrel paint?
Thank you! It’s a brand of craft acrylic paint sold at Walmart.
I love it. I want to try it too... :) Where do you get those clear swiping tools from ? Thank you
Thank you! I made the swipe tools by cutting a piece of laminator sheet. But you could use a piece of paper towel or a putty knife or something instead…
Just found your channel and I love it! You are the best, so fun and so easy to follow (even though mine look like sh#t), I'll keep trying and thank you!
Thank you so much! Haha sorry you haven’t gotten the results you want…start simple, and once you have a feel for the particular technique then try something more complex! Good luck!
can you give you mixtures on how you mixed your paints together to get the different colors?
My paint is mixed with American floetrol at about 2:1 floetrol to paint. My paint brands are in the video description, as well as a link to a video that shows how to mix paint with floetrol!
I love your work! What kind of silicone do you use? Thank you for your video!
Thank you! I use “Spot On” treadmill silicone, but I’ve had good results with coconut milk hair serum by OGX also.
Hello from Canada. I love your videos, i'm new to your channel and loving it. Could you please tell which floetrol your using? And have you experimented with coconut hair serum for cells yet? Being a beginner, I tend to have crazing and cracking in a couple of my pieces, and since I read on my American floetrol bottle, that lead is leaked with cracking of paintings. I'm not sure if the Australian floetrol has the same, as in Canada I cannot purchase it anywhere. Please do tell my dear, thank you
Hi! I am using US Floetrol. And yes I used the hair serum for cells before buying my silicone oil and it worked very well!
Crazing/cracking is often linked to a poor quality paint. For me, I found that apple barrel white paint cracked like crazy, so I stopped using it and used other brands instead. Another possibility is that your paintings are drying too quickly, which can result in a cracked surface.
Good luck!
@@AnnaBlountArt thank you very much. I use mont marte paints as well as liquitex paints for black and whites. Other colors I use for practice pieces are usually folk art paints. I do live in an apartment, so I think maybe it's the quick drying. Thank you again for your help and your videos
How do you cut the blue tape on the fish's (seahorse 's) shape without cutting the canvas?
I make a sketch on parchment paper, lay tape over it, then flip over the paper and cut it out with scissors. Then I peel it up and lay it on the canvas!
@@AnnaBlountArt thank you
Beautiful, I love both the fish and seahorse, I have to try this I think a Jellyfish would be cool as well, I have not liked using silicone so I will have to perfect my cell activation with out it, I just started watching your channel, what do you use as far as resin or varnish? Thank you for sharing your technique 👏💕
Thanks so much! Yeah I’ve made jellyfish but with a different technique. Gotta find time to make another because none of the three I’ve made previously were filmed! I use gloss varnish to finish my pieces.
Hello, I love this. I looked through the comments, & I apologize if you answered this already. Did you put your colors on the canvas in a particular order or just mix it up?
Thanks so much! The first color or two after the front edge color will be the most prominent, so I did layer them so as to have some contrast between the colors. But it really isn’t an exact science, and I’m sure it’ll look great no matter how you put them out!
@@AnnaBlountArt Thank you so much for getting back to me. I have yet to try a pour; I'm still just watching lots of videos and trying to learn.
@@gkemp77 gotcha! Well this technique is a bit involved so if you do jump in I’d recommend some simpler techniques before having a go at this one :)
As the seahorse, kind thuis one very much. But my personal taste is no polka dots.
Still wander what would happen if you would use a blow-dryer softly to spread the paint....
Love from the Netherlands, Daniëlle 🙋
Thanks! Yes, I understand the dots are not for everyone. Watch my Reveal Seahorse video to see a different background! 😃
Can you share your ratio of paint to silicone please? Does flotrol work the same?
Haha I mis-spoke in the video. My paint is mixed with floetrol and thinned with water, and 1 drop of silicone oil per color of paint. Check the description and you’ll find details and a paint-mixing video!
Hiii, the base code is it just white paint or did you mixed it with something. Sorry im new to these techniques:)
Hi! The base coat is white paint mixed with floetrol and water just like my other paints, but there is no silicone in it 🙂
@@AnnaBlountArt ohh got it and thnx for the fast response!
I don't know if it works, but I heard that using clear paint first around your tape may prevent bleeding under the tape.
Thanks! Yeah I hesitate to paint over the tape because I don’t want to create a ridge of dried paint in this particular design. But it’s a great thought for other paintings that use tape!
What do you add to make cells
For this painting I used Spot On treadmill silicone! About one drop per ounce of paint.
I just saw a jellyfish on another page lol 😊❤
Yes I have done some jellyfish! It’s a different technique but goes very nicely with the ocean theme 😊
Not sure what u mean by silicon paint?
It’s regular acrylic paint mixed with floetrol and water. I then add silicone oil to the colors - it’s an additive that makes the beautiful bubbles!
Instead of wiping up where the paint went under the tape couldn’t you take some sort of a utensil and feather/swirl those bits of paint into the background color making it look intentional instead of wiping it off and then repainting little flex of paint that end up looking more uniform and less organic. I like the organic look of where the paint saved under the tape, personally… But this is whyThere is a saying “to each his own” beautiful work thank you for sharing your time in your talent
Well I really wanted the smooth front edge, but yes there are a lot of ways you could do it!
Comment faire les jolies cellules ?
I use silicone oil added to the paint! About one drop per ounce of paint.
@@AnnaBlountArt merci beaucoup, Anna,pour m'avoir répondu. Et merci de faire de si jolies œuvres d'art.
If you dry brush with paint the edge of tape your other paint won't run. Doesn't take much.
Thanks!
Why not put all the colours into squeeze bottles? 😘
Because I’m lazy 😂
Squeeze bottles would make the painting process faster but the prep and cleanup would take longer. Cups and sticks seems a bit messy but it saves a lot of time so that’s what I typically do!
Instead of dots think I would have liked a non blue color of maybe silvery circles from the mouth and a really pale blue background
Yes there are a lot of cool possibilities with a pour like this!
Suggestion! Perhaps the next ocean picture you do with fish or marine life, let the entire painting dry and put some lacey kelp and sea grasses in there, across the finished picture. I notice that you used apple barrel paint. I had a terrible thing happen using that paint. Maybe I just had a bad batch, but I added something to dry apple barrel then did not like it and the apple barrel that was dry WIPED OFF when I wiped off the added paint! I have never used apple barrel since. And that has never happened with any other type of paint I have used. If you decide to use the lacey sea plant idea, before you try it out, Please make a test project and let it dry completely first then test that your paint is not ruined if you decide you do NOT like the plant effect and try to change it. Your work is to gorgeous to ruin it with a bad paint. Please be careful. That would make me cry!
Yeah I’m always looking for new ways to frame a sea creature. I haven’t ever had trouble with my paint after it dries!
@@AnnaBlountArt Good to read! Maybe I just had a bad batch of paint. I got rid of all my apple barrel after that shock.
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Thanks!
I think you should charge much more
Thank you!
Your excess paint removal with a straw frightens me. how many times have you just swallowed paint? Yikes... Love the painting though
Yeah, I should have clarified. The paint NEVER goes in my mouth, it’s just enough suction to pull it up into the bottom of the straw.