Technique Tuesday - Spatter Background
Sometimes, ideas for projects come from the oddest places. Here is where this Tuesday’s technique came from:
To make a spatter paint background, you’ll need an area where you can be messy. I used a big cardboard box base to protect things, but a gust of wind still blew paint back on the steps. You’ll also need a canvas or watercolor paper and cheap acrylic craft paints.
Put the canvas on the ground (or in your cardboard box base) and hold one of the paint containers at least eight feet above it. Squeeze the container and let the paint splat onto the canvas. When you’re satisfied, grab another color. I had one piece I wasn’t completely happy with and I pressed a blank piece of paper over it to make a monoprint, moving the paint around a bit.
It is really a fun technique, especially if kids are involved!
This is my favorite background piece:
Photos by me.
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Apr 18, 2008 at 1:36 am
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Apr 18, 2008 at 9:14 am
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Cyndi L
Apr 18, 2008 at 11:05 am
OHMYGOSH, Katelyn!! Is that what I think it is in the first picture? LOL!!!!
Noreen Crone-Findlay
Apr 18, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Now that’s inspiration from nature, right? It looks like the birds blessed you as they flew by! LOL!
Katelyn
Apr 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Cyndi,
Oh, yes, it is. I have a bird feeder near the porch.
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Apr 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm
[…] Inspiration Comes From the Strangest Things Make a colorful background for your artwork. […]
Katelyn
Apr 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Noreen,
Usually nature provides prettier inspiration, but I’ll take it where I can get it…
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Apr 19, 2008 at 4:16 am
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Eileen
Apr 19, 2008 at 7:08 am
Speaking of inspiration, I’m getting tons of it from the Artsy Bloggers Group. I look forward to each weekly installment.
Thanks to all the artist participants! Keep up the good work.
I’m off to splatter some paint. What a great way to feel like a kid again!
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Apr 19, 2008 at 1:55 pm
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