'The Midas Touch' How to Use a Dish Strainer for Nautilus Pour Painting | 3D Effect Acrylic Pouring
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2023
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Here are my Keys to Success for a Nautilus Pour using a dish strainer:
1. The consistency of your mixed paints should be thick - it should leave a mound-on-a-mound when drizzled off of your stir stick. If your paints are too thin, you'll loose line and color definition, especially after you start spinning or tilting.
2. Mix your paints at least 24 hours before using them to reduce the amount of air bubbles when you pour. As a general rule, the thicker the consistency of your paints, the longer it takes for the bubbles to rise through the paint and release.
3. If using a transparent color as your base, I highly recommend pre-painting the sides of your canvas in that color with a brush to avoid the white canvas from showing through. The surface is not as important, but definitely the sides.
3. I went for simplicity with just 2 colors. This technique works best with no more than 3 colors with strong contrast. I recommend only one color per chamber to maximize the spiraling effect.
4. The holes in your dish strainer need to be fairly large if they are round, or long (tall) if they are narrow.
5. If you don't put a base coat on your canvas, you may lose some of your composition, and you will still need a flow extender to get that thick paint to move to the canvas edges.
6. It's important to get as close to center as possible when placing your strainer on the canvas. I use a string dipped from corner to corner in my base color to find the center.
7. Pour slowly in the center of the strainer in tight circles. If you need to stop and add more paint to your split cup, no problem. Just start again in the same spot you stopped and it will not affect the pattern.
8. While pouring with one hand, use the other to SLOWLY turn the canvas on the spinner. This is the key to creating the spiral. It doesn't take as much coordination as you might think! Pour with your dominant hand and spin gently with the other. The faster you spin, the more spirals you will get. I intentionally spun the canvas VERY slowly to get one large spiral - both effects are beautiful.
9. DON'T REMOVE YOUR STRAINER RIGHT AWAY. When you are done pouring, let the paint continue to ooze out of the strainer. I let mine sit for a couple of minutes. Give the canvas a couple of gentle spins to create space for more paint to exit the strainer. This is an important step if you want that 3D effect!
10. When removing the strainer - commit to the movement. Once you start lifting, don't stop! And put your hand or a piece of paper or cardboard under it right away to avoid any drips ruining your pattern when you take it away.
11. Give it a couple of good spins to get that thick paint to move! This is where having a base coat or flow extender is really important. It allows your pour to float across rather than stick to the canvas.
12. I think this technique looks great with negative space, but it's also beautiful when spun out to completely cover all the corners.
13. To avoid cracking when it dries, make sure to leave 4-6 inches of space from the bottom of the canvas to the tabletop - air needs to flow underneath so that the surface and the underside dry at the same time, especially when using thicker consistency paints. I always prop my canvases up on large plastic cups for a couple of days until it's dry to the touch.
Colors used:
DecoArt 24 Gold + Golden Fluid Acrylics Quinacridone Nicol Azo Gold
Amsterdam Lamp Black
My pouring medium is equal parts Floetrol, PVA glue and gloss varnish. I mixed my paints 3 parts pouring medium to 1 part paint.
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You’re nautilus pours are my favorite hands down. The orange and purple remains my absolute favorite. Bravo
😊 thanks so much!
Absolutely gorgeous. Love the sound track too
I surrender to gravity. Stunning, Nate ❤
Stunning piece Nate! I love its' shimmer! See you soon!
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful
I just love this one so much. You have a great creative spirit, Nate. Thanks for helpin' sit my video today...I appreciate it bunches, and I love you...all the way to my SOCKS. 💖🧦
Finally got to watch this! I love this so much because I never would have thought to use the sink strainer for just 2 colors! This is awesome, such dimension!
This is very cool Nate, the dried results are stunning.
Wow tolle Sonne 👍👏🙏🙋🏼♀️🇨🇭
Thank you for going through in such detal. Its really helpful for us new comers. 😊
What a cool look/outcome!
That's so cool Nate!! It reminds me of the tattoo on my shoulder it's a sunflower 🌻 it look almost exactly like it! Pretty cool! 😊
Bravo my friend!!! 😍❤️
Love it ❤ so elegant and powerful
Thank you for sharing the beautiful and wonderful picture.😃
Really cool and pretty
Perfect Nate!!
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Thanks so much for your explanations. Its so kind to you to allow us to see and TRY ...😉.to copy what you realise . I love this paint ! 👍🙋
WELL DONE, it´s amazing!
Gorgeous!
Wonderful so well done thanks so much sir .
Love it ❤
I love it!
Very cool effect!
Nate👋✨💵
I know you said you were trying to be more minimal (on FB), the more I look at yours, the more I wonder if there would be more contrast if you did a 4 chamber cup instead and did 3 black and one gold? Maybe. It's a beautiful sunburst though :)
Thanks! But I'm a little confused. LOL I did use a 4 chamber split cup. One gold chamber and 3 black. Which I think is exactly what you are suggesting?
But I think I understand the point you are making. There seems to be a disproportionate amount of gold, right? Way more than you would expect. As I understand it, it's because the gold is lighter than the black in density, so it 'floats' to the top and the black sinks a bit, leaving more gold visible.
If you had another suggestion and I just didn't get it - I'm all ears!
@@NateBrightArt - sorry, you got what I meant. I thought you used a three chamber splits cup. That's what I was getting at was trying to decrease the gold so that it didn't dominate as much. But you are right that it is hard to control in general anyhow.
Love it Nate & I’m going to try with my electric pottery wheel. Also, I joined your Patreon group last week, but haven’t received any information?
Kathy!! I messaged you and didn’t hear back. I’m going to send you another message in Patreon.com this afternoon- please check to see if you receive it 🥰
@@NateBrightArt I’ll go check now. Should I have gotten some kind of notification? I wouldn’t even know to check there.