A flower pour is also referred to as a bottle bottom puddle pour. With the flower pouring technique, the paint is applied to the painting surface via a suitable, separated base of a bottle bottom. Where the areas of the bottle bottom are raised, they create a pattern that resembles a flower shape. At the end you can change the resulting pattern by tilting the canvas. Each colour is mixed together with the pouring medium and water in different cups. There is no need to add silicone oil for this method as the paint layers all come through with this technique so cells are not really needed. If you don’t want to have the flower pattern covering the whole of the canvas, you can first apply a background colour to the canvas. This will also make the paint flow better. It is essential that the bottle bottom should be level so that the paint applied doesn’t run in a specific direction, distorting the flower pattern. Firstly, you will need to take a water/fizzy pop bottle and cut the bottom with either scissors or a cutting knife. Then place the bottom of the bottle onto the canvas and pour small quantities of each colour one after another onto the bottle bottom. The colour will then run over the depressions onto the canvas and generates the flower pattern. If you like the result, carefully remove the bottom of the bottle and pour some different colours into each other in a circle in the middle. This is so that this area is also covered with colour as well, instead of it being just a circular block of one colour. With a fine artist brush you can still set accents by driving it from the outside, inwards or from the middle of the flower to the outside. If desired, the flower like pattern can be altered or made more abstract by tilting the painting surface back and forth. Of course you can also apply multiple bottle bottom puddle pours onto the same canvas multiple times.
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