In this Video Tutorial let’s create a Butterfly Nebula Acrylic Pour Painting. This time I’m going to create an abstract painting inspired by Butterfly Nebula. So, Butterfly Nebula or Bug Nebula – it’s a super beautiful, unique, enormous cloud of dust and gas in constellation Scorpius. And it has very complex and unique structure. 

It’s a bipolar planetary nebula, and it has two primary lobes that have these rounded shapes and they do look like butterfly. I think this is so beautiful. In this acrylic pouring tutorial, I’m going to use my ring to try and create those rounded shapes, rounded the lobes in this nebula. And I will use a huge cookie cutter again to separate my positive space from negative space. 

Phthalo Blue  
Blue-Violet  
Prussian Blue 
BLOWDRYER  
Torch 

This pour painting is dry and finished with layer of epoxy resin. And if you take anything from this fluid art video tutorial – may be the fact that not everything always turns out as planned. I think that every time something goes off – it’s really just a perfect opportunity to challenge yourself to try out something new modifying your abstract painting. I think these acrylic pouring tips and tricks on how you can touch up your dry abstract painting also using fluid art techniques were helpful. I really love this Butterfly Nebula so-so much. I think this fluid painting is so pretty, turned out really cool. So it really makes me happy. I hope you enjoyed the process and looking forward to hearing from you! Happy creating!

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