New pouring techniques are popping up all the time but here is a list of the most common with brief explanations.  Don’t you want to try them all?

1. Flip Cup – paint mixed with pouring medium is layers in a cup with or without silicone. A canvas is usually placed on top of the canvas then “flipped” upside down.  After the pigments have settled the cup is then removed and the canvas tilted.
2. Dirty Cup – Not X-rated! Just any pour where more than one color paint with pouring medium is poured in the same cup and then added to the canvas at once.  This can be done straight or in combination with another technique such as a flip cup.
3. Split Cup – A pour where a cup is sectioned off to pour 2 or more combinations of paint at the same time. The cup can be made or purchased pre-made.
4. Dutch pour – A pour where a base layer of paint is put down then paint mixed with water in various colors are laid over part of the base.  The base color is moved by air (usually a hairdryer) over the colored paint covering it up.  Then  air is used to blow over the “covered” paint causing  the color paint to fan out.
5. Paint Kiss – A pour where 2 cups filled with paint mixed with pouring medium touch together or “kiss” as the paint is poured at the same time. May or may not be traveling.
6. Ribbon Pour – Paint colors layered in a cup are poured in lines or ribbons up and down the canvas
7. Ring Pour — Paint colors layered in a cup are poured in small circles from the center out
8. Open Cup Pour— Paint is poured into a ring, cookie cutter or cup with no bottom which is usually placed over a puddle of paint on a canvas. The open cup is then lifted in increments or all at once, so that the paint is released from the open cup.
9. Double or Triple Open Cup Pour— same as Open Cup Pour above but with multiple open cups.
10. Funnel Pour — A pour painting where paint of various colors is poured into a funnel and then released on a canvas.
11. Sink Drainer Pour — Paint is poured through a sink drained onto a canvas. Designs vary by type of sink drainer.
12. Colander Pour — Paint is poured through a colander making designs on a canvas.
13. Dust Pan Pour —Paint is layered onto a dustpan and then dispersed onto a canvas in various ways.
14. Tree Pour/Swipe — A variation of a middle swipe where various colors of paint are placed in the middle of the canvas and swiped from the middle outward. A tree form is then created with skewer, stick, card, pallet knife or other item.
15. Cloud Pour— A pour where satin enamel is added to white paint in order to get fluffy cells that look like clouds.
16. Pearl Pour — A pour where small round “pearls” rise through a top layer of paint. This is usually achieved with a metallic high sheen paint.
17. Ghost Pour or Middle Swipe— A variation of a middle swipe where colors are poured along a middle line then swiped to either side of the line causing a reflection on both sides of the line with ghostlike qualities.
18. Reverse Cup Pour — A pour where a dessert cup, bottle bottom or specially made segmented implement is placed on a canvas and paint is poured over the top in layers. This usually forms a flower or geometric shape.
19. Reverse Dip — A paint design is poured onto a surface and then a canvas, paper, etc. is dipped into the design creating an image.
20. Infinity Pour — Paint is layered in two cups then the paints are poured on the canvas in circles going in the opposite direction.
21. Spin Pour — Any pour that involves a lazy Susan or rotating spinner to disperse paints.
22. Swipe — Paint is poured onto a canvas and swiped across the canvas. A layer of paint is usually swiped over other layers forming cells.
23. Wave pour or intentional pour — There are many intentional pours where the artist has a shape in made when pouring paint. A common intentional pour is a wave pour whose shape is poured intentionally the blown or swiped in that shape.
24. Marble Pour — A pour where paint is placed on a canvas usually in puddles, then a marble is rolled through the paint creating designs.
25. Chain or String Pull – Paint is poured on a canvas as a base and then a chain is pulled though various colors of paint and pulled across thr canvas creating designs.
26. Multi-canvas Pour — A pour of any type that executed across more than one canvas to create a complete
27. Puddle Pour — Paint is layered on top of one another in concentric circles.
28. Shot glass Pour — A pour where a layers of paint are poured into a cup with shot glass placed inside.   Paint is then poured into the shot glass and then the cup is poured onto a canvas.
29. Balloon Dip — A pour painting where balloons are dipped into the paint on the canvas to make designs.
30. Resin Pour — Acrylic paint is added to resin then poured onto a canvas. Good for ocean pours.

Many of the above pours can be traveling (moving) or static in nature.