Mixed Media Abstract - Fluid Acrylic Pouring with Acrylic Inks - Untitled

Blue and purple acrylic inks (FW) were poured over a ground of Matisse moulding medium and Golden Glass Bead Gel.

Mixed Media Abstract - Untitled

Mixed Media Abstract - Acrylic Paints, FW and Liquitex Ink pours

I created the texture with Matisse Impasto Medium and Golden Crackle Medium thickly applied with a stencil. When dry this layer was painted with acrylic paints in blues with yellow in the top right. When dry Golden Glass Bead Gel was applied in a few areas.

Subsequent layers of fluid acrylic paint and then acrylic inks until I was happy.

Hear is a close up of the centre left so you can see the different textures and colours flowing better:

Close up: Mixed Media texture using Matisse Impasto Medium, Golden Crackle Paste, & Golden Glass Bead Gel with fluid acrylic paints allowed to flow and blend naturally

Acrylic Mediums; Gels & Pastes: Atelier Traditional Heavy Gel (Gloss)

This is a thick gel that can be used to add texture and gloss to artwork. It starts out milky white and dries clear.

The picture above is a close up of a test I made using a painting knife to spread the gel over a stretched canvas. I then dropped a small amount of FW Artists Acrylic Ink (white, turquoise) and then spread back and forth with the knife. 

I love this gel, you can see through the gel to the underpainting below and the canvas texture still. The image doesn't really show the gloss or the peaks created.  The only problem I have with this gel is that it is so glossy that I couldn't tell when it was dry. It was a few days before I got up the nerve to test and it was dry. 

Abstract Fluid Acrylic Pouring with ink on Textured Ground #2 - Untitled

After my last few acrylic ink paintings, I ordered more colours from Artifolk and this is the result.

Untitled - poured ink on 12x12x1/2 inch (30x30x1.3cm) stretched canvas textured with painting knife and Matisse Impasto Medium 

I just love the way Art Spectrum, Liquitex and FW inks work so well together. Whether you just tip the canvas or blow through a straw the inks make some great and unexpected patterns.

Abstract Fluid Acrylic Pouring with ink on Textured Ground - Untitled

I wanted to see how pouring ink over a textured ground would look. I textured the canvas with a painting knife and Matisse Impasto Medium (MM2).

Untitled - poured ink on 12x12x1/2 inch (30x30x1.3cm) stretched canvas textured with painting knife and Matisse Impasto Medium

I used the same technique and ink as my last painting.

Water was sprayed over canvas then artist acrylic Inks (Art Spectrum Pigmented ink (blue, green, turquoise & white) and Daler Rowney FW in (sun-up blue & genesis green) were poured in lines (I wanted the finished work to be portrait and I worked holding the canvas in the landscape position) and tipped from side to side. I kept doing this until I was happy with the look. I also brushed the sides  with a soft brush so the ink runs would mix roughly.

Abstract Fluid Acrylic Pouring with ink - Untitled

Untitled - poured ink on 12x24x1/2 inch (30x60x1.3cm) stretched canvas

Water was sprayed over canvas then artist acrylic Inks (Art Spectrum Pigmented ink (blue, green, turquoise & white) and Daler Rowney FW in (sun-up blue & genesis green) were poured in lines (I wanted the finished work to be portrait and I worked holding the canvas in the landscape position) and tipped from side to side. I kept doing this until I was happy with the look. I also brushed the sides  with a soft brush so the ink runs would mix roughly.