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Pour it on, baby!

3/2/2019

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green and pink painting





​This is a "dirty pour" on a canvas board. 
The board got pretty warped, possibly because this is a wet process...it takes several days for these to dry sometimes. 

So there's this thing I stumbled across on Pinterest. I feel like it's kind of a new "thing," but considering the volume of tutorial matter on yonder interwebs, I suspect it's been around for at least a few minutes. 
It's called Acrylic Pour Painting, and it's so freaking addicting--and messy--it'll be a miracle if I get my copy edits done by next week. 

Basically, you take a bunch of acrylic paint--the cheaper little bottles, or big squishy tubes, some artists even use house paint! You mix your paint with a "medium" that makes it a little more liquid without watering it down (I use Floetrol, but you can use Elmer's Glue-All if you want!), though you do add a little water sometimes. You can add a few drops of silicone oil if you like (this makes the round spots called "cells" appear). 
THEN, you start pouring. 

You can pour stuff strait on your canvas (or block of wood, or ceramic tile, or whatever) and mess with it that way.
You can do a "dirty pour" (heh. heh) and pour all of your colors into a cup, just kind of layer them in there, and dump all that on your canvas (that's what the one above is). 
You can drag string across your painting, you can use a hairdryer to move the paint around, use a balloon to squish it up (see below). 
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I used a balloon to smoosh puddles of paint around.
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some tiles I'm going to convince Mr. Stanley to install in our new house. Maybe.
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There are tons of how-to videos and blog posts out there, and I could spend hours, and hours (okay, I HAVE spent hours and hours) watching them, especially when I can't sleep. 
There are too many amazing artists and websites out there to list them all, but a couple of my go-to sites are ACRYLIC POURING and RICK CHEADLE. Rick Cheadle even shows how you can get started and do a pour using $5 worth of stuff from the Dollar Store. 
Wouldn't it be fun to have paint pouring parties? Maybe when it's warm and we can go outside?
Come on. Give it a go. You know you want to! 
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I'm calling this one "Watch a hundred hours of how-to videos, then ignore most of what you saw and dump a bunch of shit in a cup and dump it on your canvas." Surprisingly, some of the people in the Facebook group I joined have paintings with the exact same name!
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Quilty Things Update

8/23/2018

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I'm slowly binge-watching my way through this quilt. I'm loving these colors! 
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Quilty Things

4/10/2018

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I used to do a LOT of quilt making, but then I got distracted by the writing bug, and got back into yarn things. A friend asked for help with a quilt she made for her new granddaughter, and the process re-ignited my passion for fabric. 

I have a BUNCH of projects in the works (there are three, er, four that are in active rotation).  I use sewing projects as a carrot for when I sit down to write: If I can focus long enough to get through one chapter, I can spend fifteen minutes sewing. 

​My inspiration for one of my top-of-the-pile projects is here on Pinterest (I don't know what kind of copyright stuff would happen if I posted it here). 

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Getting the paper out of the little appliqued top petals is interesting! 

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I hand-dyed this fabric...the blue and purple happened by accident, and I think it's really cool that this is two-sided now, with the resist from the white-on-white print. 

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These are my freezer-paper-pieced hydrangeas. I'm not sure if all the colors work, and I know it's not going to look like the Pinterest version, but it's fun to work on. 


Stay tuned for more Works in Progress! 
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Free Motivational Doodle Download!

1/22/2018

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Yes, You Can!

I work out with a trainer once a week, and I think the phrase she uses most often with me is, "Yes, you can!" Usually, this is because she wants me to do fifteen reps of something and by eight I've got noodle arms and am whining and moaning. Interestingly, I almost always make it to rep fifteen. Interestingly, it's usually because she's behind me, pulling my arms up--but hey. We get along with a little help from our friends, right?

If you download this an color it, take a picture and post it--tag me on Instagram or Facebook, or Twitter! I'm @teriannestanley everywhere!  
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Yes, You Can color this yourself!

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    Teri Anne Stanley

    I'm just a romance author who likes to make stuff

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