Intro to Fluid Art

Intro to Fluid Art

2 sessions (no makeup for missed sessions)

March 23rd & March 30th

2-4pm

Ages 18+

Learn the basics of beginning working with fluid arts in this new workshop with Resident Artist Deanna Strother! Students will bring their own supplies and be guided through the process of hand mixing their paints to the correct viscosity needed, how to layer paints in cups, correct tilting processes as well as a formula to calculate the correct amount of paints needed to cover their substrates. 

Session 1 will provide info for paint mixing, formulas for calculation and a first technique for completing 1-2 canvases. 

Session 2 will provide info for mixing specialty paints as well as an additional technique for 1-2 more canvases. 

Please contact Deanna if you have any questions about the supply list, fluidartsbydeanna@gmail.com or text 757-408-3098

Supply List 

4 4x4 stretched canvases (regular depth, not deep)

1 quart Floetrol by Flood (Lowe's or HD paint section)

1 roll of paper towels

5 8oz bottles with flip lids available at Michaels or Amazon

6 cups for mixing paints, need to be 6oz minimum, no larger than 9oz. The less ridges the better! Deanna prefers to use yogurt cups, ricotta cups, mac n cheese cups, small-medium Starbucks cups; she reuses these over and over again!

1 tube each (4.5 oz size) I prefer all Liquitex brand, but other brands are ok unless indicated otherwise.

a box to carry your supplies home with you (including wet paint cups)

• Titanium White (Artist Loft)
• Copper (Liquitex)
• Phthalo Blue (Liquitex)
• Olive Green (Liquitex)
• Metallic Cobalt (Artist Loft brand)

*Instructor will supply gloves, popsicle sticks and a torch*