After you canvas is dry, cut from the wooden frame. Trace your earrings onto the back of the canvas. I found washi tape to be the perfect size for earrings! Cut out with scissors.
DIY Earrings From Acrylic Pour Painting
Pour painting is an incredibly addicting activity! To create your acrylic pour painting, you start with a blank canvas. You then choose your colors!
I love the Color Pour paints from JOANN because they come pre-mixed with the right amount of pouring medium for optimal flow and they pair up beautiful color combinations for you!
Of course, you can always pick your colors individually and let you creativity loose! The best part? No two paintings will be exactly alike.
Each one you create will be unique and different. You can create amazing pieces of art for you home, or take it a step further and use your colorful canvases to create custom jewelry like these DIY earrings!
Yield: 1 Pair
DIY Earrings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Craft Time 30 minutes
Dry Time 1 day
Total Time 1 day 35 minutes
Difficulty Easy
Estimated Cost $5
- Canvas
- Color Pour Paints
- Fish Hook Ear Wires
- Disposable Cups
Tools
- Scissors
- Pliers
- x-acto knife
- Pencil
- Prep your work area by covering with a drop cloth. Prop your canvas up with disposable cups so the paint can drip off the edges. Decide what colors you’re using and set them out.
- After you canvas is dry, cut from the wooden frame.
- Trace your earrings onto the back of the canvas. I found washi tape to be the perfect size for earrings! Cut out with scissors.
Punch a hole in the top of your circles, then add the fish hook ear wires.
Why do acrylic pouring?
There are several reasons to do this type of art.
- Acrylic pouring helps overcome perfectionism and the belief that we can’t do art.
- It is so simple and easy to do. If you can stir liquid and turn a cup upside down, you can do this.
- Fluid art can be done in a matter of minutes, or it can take as long as you want it to.
- It fits any budget.
I struggled for years when it came to art of any kind, hating the fact that when it comes to visual art, I can never make the piece look like what’s in my head. So I didn’t create. Instead, I wilted and suffered with the urge to create stifled by my desire to make things look like I wanted them to look (some call this perfectionism).
When I heard about acrylic pouring, the friend who told me about it said, “There’s no way to control the paint. It does what it wants to do.” That’s when I realized it would be fabulous for me. If there’s no way to control it, then I don’t have to have any expectations about it—can’t, really!;I can just see what it does, and have fun with it!
I have since learned that there actually are ways to influence the paint, and many people do in fact make it look the way they want to, but hearing what I heard about it at first granted me the freedom I needed to get started and have a blast.
Acrylic pouring supplies
You will need some things to get started. You can always add more later. But for now, I recommend this kit. It has most of what you need to get started. Just click the image. It will take you to Amazon, where you can order it and anything else you’d like.
You may of course order things separately or add to this kid.
You’ll want different colors of paint
plastic cups in at least two sizes (2 ounces and 9 ounces are below)
silicone spray or drops
something to paint such as a canvas or vase
and something to contain the paint, such as a disposable baking pan for each person or painting. Save and reuse the pans.
Pouring medium
Pouring medium helps the paint flow more smoothly and to spread out and self-level. This is beneficial because you want your paint to dry and cure evenly and not to crack.
Some people prefer Liquitex, but I prefer this more affordable pouring medium.
Pour the paint into a large cup starting with any metallic or light colors first.
Gently pour onto your canvas and spread by lifting and rotating the canvas slowly and gently, allowing the paint to cover the surface. Then set up to dry.
