Rainbow white
Since creating my not-really-black Rothko Walls in the living room a couple of years ago, I've been wanting to do a not-really-white version in the bedroom. Today I bought some paint and started experimenting.
The technique starts with six quarts of paint.
(Speaking of colorful, King Cake for Mardi Gras in the lower left--brought to me by my neighbor from Louisiana.)
You daub the paint on with a sopping brush in big, thick strokes. It's a careless, untidy process, super forgiving and easy to do. You can play around with color proportions: here, pure white gets the most brushfuls, beige gets the fewest.
It's really messy:
After you load up a section of wall, you smudge the brushstrokes madly with a lambswool pad before the paint has a chance to set:
Could use a little more smudging to obliterate the brushstrokes and the drips better.
I think I like the result. I'll know more in the morning light when the paint is completely dry.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.
The technique starts with six quarts of paint.
(Speaking of colorful, King Cake for Mardi Gras in the lower left--brought to me by my neighbor from Louisiana.)
You daub the paint on with a sopping brush in big, thick strokes. It's a careless, untidy process, super forgiving and easy to do. You can play around with color proportions: here, pure white gets the most brushfuls, beige gets the fewest.
It's really messy:
After you load up a section of wall, you smudge the brushstrokes madly with a lambswool pad before the paint has a chance to set:
Could use a little more smudging to obliterate the brushstrokes and the drips better.
I think I like the result. I'll know more in the morning light when the paint is completely dry.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments.