Paint Pouring Canvas with Plaid Drizzle Paint DIY

Paint Pouring Canvas with Plaid Drizzle Paint DIY

Learn how to do an awesome paint pouring canvas background and add acrylic paint on top to make a fabulous work of art.

Plaid FolkArt Drizzle paint makes it so easy. They just released a bunch of new finishes; color shift, glitter and metallic!

Let me show you how to make the perfect tropical flower spray on a background of glittery metallic swirls!

First, the Drizzle paint, Plaid sent me these to review and I love them. I have been using Plaid products since I was born. I remember painting with my mom, we'd paint little white daisies on our fingernails.

I wish I could do paint pouring with her now, she passed 25 years ago. I'm sure she would love it!

It's pre-mixed, so it's so easy! It's ready to remove the seal and start pouring. 

No measuring, no mixing with pouring medium, no "dripping like warm honey" nonsense.

It's easy for any age and any skill level to use this paint.

Here's the FolkArt Drizzle paints I used:

• Rosie Gold Glitter
• Opal Crush (favorite)
• Gypsy Gold
• Disco Dust
• Brassy
• Mercury
• Cloud

Supplies Needed for Paint Pouring Canvas Background:

• Plaid FolkArt Drizzle Paint (Individually listed and linked above)
• Canvas
• Drizzle Strainer Set
• Acrylic Paint 
• Paintbrushes

Step 1: Prep

Begin by propping your canvas up on some paper cups over a disposable work surface.

Paint pouring is--well it can be--messy!

If you put something non-stick under the canvas, you can save and use the drippings for other projects like jewelry, mosaics and plus it's fun to peel off the mat when it's dry.

Step 2: White

Start by pouring out some of the white paint and brush it all over the top of the canvas.

This gives a viscous surface for all the paint to smoothly swirl over, doesn't have to be thick and even, just a coating over the surface.

Step 3: Strainer

Place your desired strainer with the prongs touching the canvas.

I picked the trio of circles, the set comes with a strainer in a slightly larger infinity shape and one with a set of 4 smaller circles.

The strainer is nice because it blends out the paint as you pour it, so there's a really natural flow to it.

Step 4: Pouring

Now squeeze the desired paint in the strainer, letting it flow out the edges.

Repeat with small amounts of different colors poured right in the middle of the strainer.

See how the paint makes such a natural and swirly combination just by flowing through the strainer?

Step 5: Remove Strainer

After a sufficient or more than sufficient amount of paint is on the canvas, remove the strainer. 

It does feel like adding a LOT of paint to the canvas, but it needs a lot to reach all the edges and corners.

Unfortunately a lot ends up on the table, so some people will pour over another canvas and do 2 paintings with one pour.

It always feels like a lot of paint and then I'm surprised because I usually add more!

It needs to be, so it can be tipped, tilted and flow over the surface in a smooth and natural way.

Step 6: Tip

Now lift the canvas off the cups gently, so the cups stay in place and you can set it back down when you are done swirling.

Then tip, tilt and move the canvas so the paint reaches all the corners and edges.

You'll see the paint flow and some of the most incredible patterns appear, transform and some run off the edges completely!

Step 7: Dry

Now set the canvas back on the cups to dry.

It takes a long time for all this thick glittery paint to dry.

The glitter paint looks white, but will dry so glittery!

I let mine dry from 24 hours to a week or two!

Looking at it, you can't even tell that I used a Drizzle tool strainer.

Okay, side note Natalie here.

I wasn't thrilled about how my pour looked right down the middle, so I added some more pour paint in veins right on top.

Then I let it all dry.

Step 8: Painting!

My painting dried and I just still wasn't thrilled with it as is.

I think it's just the lack of color, although it has massive geode vibes with all the shiny, sparkly glitter.

So I decided to paint over the pour in the center and leave the rest as a glittery background.

You'll need some acrylic craft paint, mine are all from Plaid.

First I painted bright pink 5 petaled flowers.

Hibiscus are my favorite flower and this just needed a simple tropical vibe.

Then paint some teal fern type leaves.

Then paint in some bright green leaves and add some light pink to the center of the pink hibiscus flowers.

Add some white flowers with little yellow dot centers.

Then paint the centers (stamen, anther, filament, stigma, etc) long and yellow and delicate.

Paint wispy lines on the end of the center.

And then finish it off with yellow dots on the centers, I think those are actually called the stigma.

I finished it off with a few drops of glittery opal and disco dust Drizzle paint.

Then let the whole painting dry again!

I love how it looks when it dried.

I love the bright colors with the extreme sparkle and glitter.

I love the thickness and the chunky vibe of the painting.

Paint pourings are so much fun!

Paint pouring makes such a great canvas background for any work of art.

I love the gold, silver and iridescent glitter.

I love the brassy and mercury metallic shine.

The Drizzle tool was fun to use for a new technique!

That's it!

Have you tried paint pouring before?

It's so much fun and it's seriously a craft that turns out amazing for any age group or any skill level.

Give it a try today!

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