I have started on a new painting for my cousin. She requested a specific color palette and a specific amount ratio of colors. Just to note, I no longer make custom order paintings, however if there is something that you like on my ‘Paintings’ Page, please send an email and I will let you know if it available for purchase.

In order to prepare for a painting, first I get loose. There may be many videos online showing people how to pour however, I would like to think that I put a little more thought into the colors and the process I am using than just throwing together some random colors on a canvas. (No offense to those artists who do that) Typically, even if I am doing a pour I always do other artwork on the canvas, making it more intricate. With this specific piece however, the requester asked for it to be strictly a pour and I obliged. This is probably the only painting that I have ever done this for… so it is pretty unique.

The first thing to do is mix and put together all of the paint colors you want to use on your canvas. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of my paints, so I will have a drawing below.

Second I make sure I have enough paint (quite often you can run out or want to go over it again and not have enough). Also, make sure you have set up your working area and that it is level. That means lots of newspaper and/or reusable plastic covers.

Check out the pour process below:

After the pour process is completed, you have to patiently watch the canvases to make sure that the paint isn’t just rolling off to one side. I sat and watched the paintings for about 30 minutes to make sure they were leveled and weren’t changing.

I waited for roughly 2 weeks before I gave Empyrean to 3rd Coast Craftsman as a template, so that he could build the floating frame for it. The frame was built out of white oak. Check out the frame building process below.

Here is the varnishing process. I love to watch the dimensions come through post-varnishing.

Once the painting was packaged it was ready to go to its home.