Spray Paint Marbelizing #15

I took a printmaking class last semester and found out about marbelizing paper by putting oil-based paint or ink on water. My professor also told me about Suminagashi, the Japanese version. I ordered supplies to do it the Japanese way, but they take so long to ship. Here I am with spray paint, a container, lots of different papers and water... What to do? This individual piece has black, purple, orange and silver printed onto canvas. There are about 50 of these with different colors on different materials, but I'm not making 50 posts or putting all the images in one. This is the best.

Medieval Midnight

I had been messing around with spray paint and paint in spray bottles most of last summer, making abstract stuff. I decided to get representational for a bit once I knew how my materials worked. From top to bottom:
The sky is all spray paint, except the blue, which was from a spray bottle. I used a toothpick dipped in model enamel to make the stars.
The castle was spray painted grey and then had spray bottles of black, white and grey on it.
The town is all spray paint: black, brown and yellow.
I used hand cut paper stencils to isolate sections. The little yellow windows were a bitch because I had to use so much paint to get a good saturation that they leaked all over and had to be touched up with black around the edges.

Pickles in a Glass Tray

I was playing with my DSLR camera at a family gathering and captured a beautiful image of some pickles. Not really caring about the results, I went wild. I started with the yellow roll construction paper 24" x 36" and spray painted my base colors. Then came my special blend of acrylic and tempra paint and I finished it off with oil pastel. This was just for fun and I didn't stress about photorealism.

Radu Vladislas

Jesse and Pippi were too happy and cheerful. They needed a scary guy to keep them company on my wall. This is Radu from the Subspecies film series played by anders Hove. He's on the brown packing paper and 28" x 38". He was created mostly with black tempra paint. There is some charcoal and white and brown conte crayon as well.

Pippi Longstocking

Jesse Stewart had come out alright and it was cool drawing really big. I decided to go for some color on Pippi Longstocking. She's 30" x 40" on yellow construction paper from a roll that I got for free. I used charcoal and hard pastels. This is Inger Nilsson Pippi from the 1969 TV series.

Jesse Stewart

I had taken a drawing class at school and was getting good with charcoal. I was also obsessed with Jesse Stewart's music and the song, "Cold Beer" specifically. This is 44" x 28" on brown packing paper.