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In this video I'm going to show you how to do acrylic paint pouring over rocks
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They're great for in the garden, they're great for in the house and it is absolutely so easy. I'm Christine of Christine's Crafts and this channel is
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dedicated to crafting on a budget. So all you're going to need are your rocks. They
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can be large, they can be small, it's entirely up to you, it depends what you want to use them for. The first thing you're going to do is paint them white
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with acrylic paint. Not pouring paint, just ordinary white acrylic. It doesn't
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matter about it, there's nothing special, it's just so that you get a nice colour
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on your rocks. And then you need to place them somewhere ready for paint pouring
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and I recommend you raise them up on something, perhaps milk carton tops, just
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something that will keep them up off the bottom so they don't stick down. So
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you're going to need some pouring paint and a cup to put it in. If you don't have
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pouring paint, you have normal acrylics, you can water it down, perhaps using some
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silicone or using some water. And then once you've got your pouring paints
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you're going to add them to the cup, one after the other, so we get those nice
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stripy patterns. Now you'll notice I tip the cup over so that the paint goes in
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and adds on in layers rather than all mixing together and that's pretty
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important for the effect we want. So you just keep going with all the different
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colours you want to see on your rocks and making sure you've got plenty of
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paint to cover however many rocks you're trying to do and that can be difficult
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to know how much. If you stay till the end I'm going to show you how to make
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sure your rocks stay nice and fresh even if you put them outside. So for now just
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get all your paint in there and then it's time for the fun bit, the paint
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pouring. So you're just going to take your cup and you're going to tilt it
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over slowly and carefully and just dribble that paint over your rocks. Now
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for me my preferred effect I found was just going backwards and forwards with
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the cup and getting those nice stripes but you can try turning it around in
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circles like I just did, you can try doing one big splodge on the top and letting
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it just run down the different sides. Experiment, see what suits you. You can
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pour loads of paint on the first time and be complete or as I can see I've
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poured some on, let it run and then I'm going back and adding some more paint
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into the white areas that aren't quite covered. You could even leave some of
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those white areas exposed, there's no reason that you have to cover every
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little bit of the rock, this is your creation. You can just see how I'm
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looking at them going back and adding, some more successfully than others but
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that's the beauty of acrylic paint pouring, you can just experiment, have a
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go, next time you do some rocks you'll do them differently. You can also involve a
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tool, so I've got a little plastic tool here, you could use a plastic fork or a
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plastic knife, anything you've got to hand and you can use some of that paint
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that's run off and make a different effect again. So you can scoop some up
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and dribble it to cover some of those white bits, you could use your tool and
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drag it through the paint and see what effects you could get, especially if you
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were dragging a fork around you could get almost a marble effect. Experiment
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have fun. As you can see that's what I've done, I'm trying different things and
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then even coming back and pouring some more paint, just do whatever suits you
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they're your rocks and then all that's left to do is to leave them to dry. Now
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make sure you leave them plenty of time because you've got a lot of paint there
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and you're going to realise now why it was important to have them raised up so they don't stick down with all that runoff paint and my top tip for making
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sure they last is to varnish them. So make sure they're completely dry and
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then you can varnish them, either paint it on or a nice spray varnish is what I
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used. They'll stay nice and shiny and they'll keep outside. So thank you for
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watching, if you've enjoyed this video please give me a thumbs up below and subscribe to my channel and the video on your screen now is another acrylic
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paint pouring video, so please enjoy
