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(If you’re curious about colors and color theory as it relates to acrylic pouring, head on over to my post about Choosing Colors for Acrylic Pouring and grab your FREE printable Color Wheel and Color Scheme Guides below!) Materials You Will Need to Paint a Northern Lights Painting with Acrylic Pouring You can choose any colors that you’d like, I would just recommend that they be opaque.Īnything with shine, metallics, or even color shifting paint would look AMAZING on a black canvas.
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You can also head over to my Comprehensive Guide to Acrylic Pouring Techniques for more information on all of the different techniques and my How to Thin Acrylic Paint for Acrylic Pouring post to learn all about pouring mediums! What colors do you need to paint a black canvas painting?Īs I talked about above, I wanted to focus on neon colors for this painting, and I also added white to help those neons become opaque so that they would actually show up on my black canvas. If you’re pouring for the first time and would like more explanation on materials, processes, and terms, you can head on over to my Beginner’s Guide to Acrylic Pouring. So how do you make a neon acrylic pouring black canvas painting? Well, the technique that I used was:īut you could use any technique that you want for this type of painting. In this case, I created negative space circles that would simply be blank, black canvas by using vinyl circles that I cut out with my Cricut, doing the acrylic pour over them and then removing the vinyl to reveal the circles.


Negative space is the space between, around, and surrounding the subject of your painting. What I chose to do with the black canvases that I was experimenting with this week is to play with negative space to add in an additional element of composition to my acrylic pouring pieces. Playing with Negative Space in Black Canvas Paintings Using a black canvas is an easy way to get richer, deeper colors more easily, especially in acrylic pouring where you don’t need to define the composition or shapes and elements in your painting. Underpainting is a preliminary layer of paint on your painting that helps define colors in your final painting. So I would either use opaque colors or mix with white when acrylic pouring on canvas. This is tough to achieve with acrylic pouring, however, because it’s not clear where the colors will end up in the final painting. If you’d like to use a more translucent color, meaning it can be seen through, I would recommend painting the area with titanium white (a very opaque color) first so that your color will show up against the black.
