
Using a hairdryer or a straw or an airbrush, blow that extra background paint over your flame colors.Flip your canvas to where your flames are at the top of the canvas.Put an extra layer of your background color at the top of your flame colors.The order that I layered my colors was: orange, red, yellow, light orange, copper, gold.

Layer the colors for your flames at the bottom of your canvas.Go in with a palette knife or popsicle stick or some other tool to refine the composition that you want.

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(If you’re curious about colors and color theory as it relates to acrylic pouring, head on over to my post about Choosing Colors for Acrylic Pouring and grab your FREE printable Color Wheel and Color Scheme Guides below!) Materials You Will Need to do a Fire Painting Check out the paintings below for an example! They were both done with a swipe technique but are very different. I think this makes the flames much more dynamic.Īlso keep in mind that you can have as bright or as subtle flames as you choose with either of these techniques. I like to use gold and copper to add some shine and light reflecting off of the flames. The other element that I really like to add into my fire paintings is metallics. But there is a part of fire where there are blues and whites - the hottest part of the fire.

When we think of fire, we naturally think of warm colors, oranges, reds, yellows. So how do you use acrylic pouring to paint fire? Well, the techniques that I used were:
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You can also head over to my Comprehensive Guide to Acrylic Pouring Techniques for more information on all of the different techniques and my How to Thin Acrylic Paint for Acrylic Pouring post to learn all about pouring mediums! How to Paint Fire If you’re pouring for the first time and would like more explanation on materials, processes, and terms, you can head on over to my Beginner’s Guide to Acrylic Pouring.

But it doesn’t have to be difficult! I’m going to show you two acrylic pouring techniques that you can use to create your own fire paintings quickly and easily! Fire has been one of the most intriguing things since the beginning of time, so it’s no wonder that we would want to find a way to create fire paintings to capture that intriguing air in our art.
