If you are a beginner like I was a few years ago, this is a very nice technique for acrylic pouring, very satisfying and with gorgeous results.

But first of all, let's find out what a Dutch pour is.

A Dutch pour is an acrylic pouring technique that uses acrylic colors and different tools that can blow air, such as hair dryer, straw, your lungs, aso. 

In order to create a Dutch pour, you will need:

• 1 canvas
• acrylic colors
• floetrol
• water
• a hair dryer / straw or you can blow the pain directly by exhaling the concentrated air from your lungs
• a heat gun

What is Floetrol?

Floetrol is a water-based paint conditioner that helps improve paint flow and workability of paint. 

Depending on your country, you can find one of those. The red one is the Australian Floetrol and is better for Bloom technique and not only, as it is known that can make beautiful cells.

How to Mix Paint for A Dutch Pour

For this technique you must obtain a consistency similar to warm honey. For this, you will have to mix each color you will use, with 1 part paint, 1 part floetrol and a little bit of water. After this, you will add in each color except white and black (if you use white and black) 3-4 drops of silicone oil. I use the silicone oil from Pentart.

After you mixed your color with floetrol and water and you added the silicone oil, you prepare the base of your painting.

Usually the base is either white or black or half white, half black, but you can use any base you like.

Don't forget not to add any silicone oil in your base color, as this will be in direct contact with your canvas.

After you prepared the base, you can start adding the colors, either as a circle or squares, lines, curve lines, however you want, in top of each other.

After this, you can start blowing the colors, so that enough negative space (your base color) will remain and beautiful models will pop up.

I am using usually a hair dryer, but I use also straws or I blow the paint using my lungs.

You can use also an air compressor, but be very careful at its power not to blow away completely your paint.

You decide when you can call it done.

Here is the tutorial for my Dutch pour - Angry wave !

Enjoy and have fun!