Hi painting friends, let’s try a reveal pour! Today I’m creating a twolayer painting of a cute yellow seahorse in its natural habitat peaceful sea grasses in dreamy turquoise waters.

Thanks to @RinskeDouna and @SarahMackArt for giving me ideas and inspiration on the reveal pour! And of course thanks to Danny Young for inspiring my very first seahorse.

If you haven’t seen my other seahorse videos yet, check them out here!
The original:    • GORGEOUS Seahorse Painting Using A Mi...  
The second (and probably better) video:    • Another SEAHORSE Micro Swipe!  INCRE...  

For the background I am using palette knives to blend the colors and swipe the sea grasses. No silicone oil is used in the background.
For the seahorse itself, I’m using a Micro Swipe technique which uses small, flexible swipe tools to manipulate your paint, and silicone oil to create bubbles. My transparent base is regular US Floetrol.

I created my blue tape template by sketching on kitchen parchment paper, taping over the sketch, and cutting it out. Warming the tape with a hair dryer really helps it make a good seal!

My paint is all mixed with floetrol (about 2:1 floetrol to paint) and thinned water to a mediumthin consistency. Paintmixing video is here!    • Mixing Paint for Acrylic Pouring  ST...  
Caribbean (Apple Barrel)
Ocean Green (Master’s Touch Acrylics)
White (Sargent and Apple Barrel)
Middle Green (Creative Inspirations)
Brilliant Yellow Green (Blick Studio Acrylics)
Lemon Yellow (Creative Inspirations)
Deep Yellow (Creative Inspirations)
Antique Copper (FolkArt)
Antique Gold (FolkArt)
“Reveal” base: Floetrol (US Version)

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I’m Anna, a mom of 3 living in smalltown West Virginia. I’ve been fluid painting since 2019 and loving every minute!

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Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 The background colors
3:00 Pouring the background
6:08 Swiping the grasses
12:42 Sea grass closeup!
14:12 Seahorse colors and details
18:27 Adding the colors
21:31 Swiping!
26:46 Pulling up the tape
29:03 Adding extra details
33:27 Closeup! (Wet result)
34:25 THE REVEAL
35:46 Brush touchups
36:38 All done! Final closeup

Music: “Sweetly My Heart” by Asher Fulero
Intro Music: “Good Days” by Yung Logos