Another Messy Morning

Isn't making a mess FUN???

Trish issued another background challenge and I could hardly wait to try my hand at this one... Acrylic paints and an old credit card.

Here's what I came up with...

This is Rainbow Paint Scraping.

I used four unrelated colors to make all of these. The one above is my favorite. I used Studio 71 tube acrylics in: cadmium yellow, cadmium red, dark ultramarine and primary magenta.

You draw lines of each color paint side by side on scrap paper (like you're making a rainbow ink pad) and then put your credit card through it. Paint rainbows on your CS until it's covered.

Next was Random Paint Scraping.

Same idea, but using three colors (one light, one medium and one dark) from the same family. These were applied directly to the CS in goops- one at the top, one in the middle and one at the bottom- and then I scraped and smooshed (technical term- haha) the credit card through it until the CS was covered and I was happy with the results. I really enjoyed this technique because it was possible to lift some of the paint off to either discard or reapply it to other areas.

This is another variation of Random Paint Scraping.

Instead of using a light, medium and dark shade, I used two medium and one light shade. It produced a very pleasing monochromatic effect.

The two below are very similar since I used the same yellow and orange in each, but the top one is made with red and the bottom with magenta. It's hard to see in the scanss, but IRL they are very different and each is quite lovely.

As always, thanks for looking!

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