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DIY for Homeowners

Workshop Wednesday: Paint Pouring & More!

10/31/2018

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On today's show:
  • Fast DIY: Paint Pouring Fall Pumpkins (0:34)
  • $200 Tip: Leaking Toilet Fast Fix (2:10)
  • Project Follow-up: Sliding Barn Door (4:13)

Links from the show:
  • Sliding Barn Door Build
  • Last week's show
  • Submit your project
  • MDP Newsletter
Testors marbling medium and craft paints.
A Pinterest search of the terms "paint pouring," "acrylic pouring," or "marbling," will send you down a rabbit-hole of great projects and techniques! For the purpose of this tutorial, I'll be using the term "paint pouring." As part of the Rust-Oleum, Creator Studio community, in which anyone can join, I was sent a package of Testor's products to try out. This is only one way to paint pour, there are many other techniques that can be used. I'm making a trio of "pumpkins" for a little fall decor. Prior to pouring the paint, I sprayed the rounds with Rust-Oleum's metallic rust color spray paint. Painting the wood helps the paint to move more smoothly across the surface of the wood.
Materials:
  • Paint medium (Amazon)
  • Acrylic paint
  • Wood round (Amazon)
  • Silicone (Amazon)
Testors marbling medium mixed into the craft paint.
To paint pour, you need paint and a pouring medium. Testors calls theirs a Marbling Medium. Most brands call theirs a pouring medium. The Testors brand is mixed in a 1 to 1 ratio, that is, one part paint to one part marbling medium. So if you use a tablespoon of paint, you'll need to stir in a tablespoon of marbling medium. This medium thins the paint so that it is able to move over the surface of the project you are creating.
Add equal amounts of Testors marbling medium and paint.
I just 'eye-balled' the amount. Note: that is not two colors of paint on top of the marbling medium. That's just how it looked before I stirred it.
Pouring the Testors paints over the project.
Once all the paints are mixed, it's time to pour. I poured them individually over the project in a random pattern. You'll notice there is more orange than the other colors. That was on purpose as I wanted that to be the predominant color.
Tilt and move the project until the surface is covered.
The project is tilted and moved until the paint covers the surface and down the sides. I didn't use enough paint for the sides, so I went back and painted these after it was dry. The gold was added, undiluted, to the project randomly where I wanted highlights.
Use silicone spray to encourage cell development in the Testors paint.
The gold paint helped to create those "cells" --the circle-like things in the surface of the paint. I also used a spritz of silicone to further encourage cell formation--just a little, and not over the entire surface. A few randomly placed cells is more interesting in my option.
Finish the pumpkins with a toy block stem, string, and floral wire tendrils.
To finish the "pumpkins" I cut a child's toy block at an angle, sanded it roughly and hot glued it to the top for a stem. I tied on jute string, and made tendrils from green floral wire. I spray painted the stands with the same color as the wood rounds were initially sprayed.
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