Method:

1. Find a large flat space to position your canvas and cover it with a wipe-down tablecloth. Things will get messy!

2. Lay down your canvas and squirt on your base colour. You need quite a lot of coverage, so imagine your canvas is split into four and squirt a big blob in each quarter. White is a good colour to try if this is your first time.

3. Plug in your hairdryer to a plug nearby and use it to push the paint around the canvas until the whole canvas is covered.

4. Pick up your first paint and make three big blobs of colour across the middle of the canvas in a diagonal line. Next, pick up another paint and squirt a different colour directly on top. Do this again with the third colour, squirting it directly on top of the previous two. Finally, take your silver or gold and continue to layer this on the three piles of paint.

5. Take your white paint once again and squirt a line of paint across all three blobs of colour, messily connecting them all. Then, squirt white paint in an oblong ring around the outside of the paints, so that there’s a barrier of white encasing them.

Dutch pour painting: how to DIY your own art using a hairdryer