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But you can add whatever you choose, maybe mountains, a thick treeline, whatever suits you. I chose to embellish my painting with just a few trees and some stars to really let the northern lights shine (pun totally intended) in the painting. However, I thought that this was actually a happy accident because it forced me to reswipe, which I actually like better because that it means that it looks more like a faint reflection than a straight mirror effect. **As you can see in the second video, when I pulled the plastic up from the second swipe, the paint dripped off of the plastic and back down into the pour.

Tilt the painting to elongate the colors if you wish.

Flip the canvas around and repeat the process for the other side.**.

Using your favorite swipe tool (for this one I used the plastic sheet that comes in the packaging for larger canvases), swipe from the center of the neon colors up toward the top of the canvas.

I kept the layout of the colors the same for either side of the center line so that the reflection effect would work out correctly (This will literally be where your horizon is.) The order that I laid my paints down was: neon green, neon pink, neon yellow, and neon blue.

Pour your neon colors in horizontal line in the center of the canvas.

Lay down a base coat of your night sky color across the entire canvas.

Step-by-step Northern Lights Painting with Acrylic Pouring Background Pour

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How to Paint a Northern Lights Painting Video Tutorial

Your favorite swipe tool (baby wipe, paper towel, plastic, etc.).

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(If you’re curious about colors and color theory as it relates to acrylic pouring, head on over to my post about Choosing Colors for Acrylic Pouring and grab your FREE printable Color Wheel and Color Scheme Guides below!) Materials You Will Need to Paint a Northern Lights Painting with Acrylic Pouring I would encourage you to find a picture of the northern lights that inspires you and use that to draw inspiration for your northern lights painting. I used neon colors because they almost exactly matched most of the pictures that I used as reference. Then we have to consider the colors of the actual northern lights themselves.

I used black, but you could also use a dark blue if you wanted to. This is going to the base color for our whole painting. When we think about creating a northern lights painting, the first color we need to think about is the color that we want to use for the night sky. What colors do you need to paint a northern lights painting? So how do you make a northern lights painting with acrylic pouring? Well, the two techniques that I used were: You can also head over to my Comprehensive Guide to Acrylic Pouring Techniques for more information on all of the different techniques and my How to Thin Acrylic Paint for Acrylic Pouring post to learn all about pouring mediums! If you’re pouring for the first time and would like more explanation on materials, processes, and terms, you can head on over to my Beginner’s Guide to Acrylic Pouring.

Northern lights painting