How to do a Wing Pour! Keys to Success! Fluid Art Tutorial - Acrylic Pouring 003

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In this video I demonstrate how to do a 'wing pour.' Here are my Keys to Success:

1. Consistency should be very thick - it should leave a mound-on-a-mound when it drizzles off of your stir stick. These ripples are what creates the feathering, so getting this right is important.
2. The first colors in your layered cup are the feathers, so take some time to consider in which order you want to layer them.
3. Half of the paint in your cup should be the base color, and it should be the final layer in the cup. This is your negative space color, and pouring it out first provides the background of your feathering. You want a lot of it because surface tension will roll it under as it drifts down the canvas. Better to lose some of the base color than the feathers.
4. Don't pour at the edge of your canvas. Move in about 1/3 of the way... the more room you give yourself, the more you will be able to stretch out the fine details in the feathering.
5. Pour uphill (towards the raised side of the canvas).
6. Keep your cup fairly close to the surface of the canvas to increase the folding effect that creates the feathering.
7. When the ripples start to get messy or muddy, stop pouring.
8. Your paints are thick, so tilt SLOWLY
9. Tilting in a straight line can cause the lines to warp, so walk the paint back and forth to maintain definition of your design.
10. As soon as the design goes over the edge, it is anchored in that spot. Don't try to adjust it once it's anchored - change your plan instead.
11. Use a flow extender. This may seem like a waste of paint, but it is NOT. Using a flow extender enables your pour to float rather than roll over itself, so you'll end up with much better results and ultimately waste less paint. My flow extenders are usually leftover paints that I've scraped off of my table (and then strained) or combined complementary colors.

Colors used:
Amsterdam Titanium White
Amsterdam Prussian Blue
Amsterdam Turquoise Green
Amsterdam Naples Yellow Red
Liquitex Violet Deep
JoSonja Deep Gold
& Custom Blue (I believe it was a mix of Amsterdam Manganese Blue and Titanium white, and maybe silver?)

Pouring medium is Flood Floetrol.

All colors are mixed 2 parts pouring medium and 1 part paint. No water added.

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