Basic Acrylic Painting - Spattering Texture
Get the latest Flash player
Basic Acrylic Painting
Basic Acrylic Painting - Preparing a Work Space
Basic Acrylic Painting - Canvas Prep and Undercoat
Basic Acrylic Painting - Spattering Texture
Basic Acrylic Painting - Additional Layering
Basic Acrylic Painting - Sponge Texture
Basic Acrylic Painting - Adding Shadows and Highlights
Basic Acrylic Painting - Overglaze and Finishing
Paper Mache
How to Make Christmas Ornaments
How to Make a Homemade Gift Box
Easter Egg Crafts
How to Make a Framed Silhouette
Basic Acrylic Painting
How to Make a Piñata
Framed Silhouettes For Someone Special
Wow With A Homemade Pinata
Create The Coolest Easter Eggs
Simple Tye Dye Easter Eggs
Create Your Own Unique Ornaments
How To Make A Flower Card For Special Occasions
How to Make A Duct Tape Sports Hand
How To Make A Duct Tape Holiday Wallet
How To Make A Duct Tape Christmas Tree Ornament
How To Make A Duct Tape Christmas Stocking
How To Make A Simple Duct Tape Holiday Ornament
How To Make A Duct Tape Gift Box
How To Make A Duct Tape Holiday Chain
How To Make A Duct Tape Poinsettia
Haunted Gingerbread House
Edible Candy Bowl Centerpiece
Trick or Treat Candy Cups
Mary Gallagher-Stout
Mary Gallagher Stout, LLC
http://marygallagherstout.artspan.com/
540 840 6619
mgalstout@verizon.net
Award winning artist and author can be found in her studio at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA which is open to the public, Wednesday - Saturday 11:00am - 7:00pm. & Sunday from 12:00 - 5:00pm.
Mary's work is a part of many private collections and a few pieces from her REAL Life Drawing: Washington DC Series have been aquired by the Securities Exchange Commission.
Basic Acrylic Painting - Spattering Texture
Painter Mary Gallagher-Stout demonstrates spattering texture for basic acrylic painting.
Transcripts
Mary Gallagher Stout: Hi! I am Mary Gallagher Stout and today we are at the Lorton Workhouse. We are creating a very stony, very sleepy lion. In this segment, we are going to be spattering on some very diluted Paynes gray with a stiff brush. You can use a tooth brush or a stenciling brush, just something very stiff. What you are going to do is we are going to spatter, is the technique, and we are going to spatter it on all over our lion, our very sleepy lion. We are building up textures. So this is what we are going to be doing. You can just have so much fun with it. Let me show you how to do it. So you just take your stiff brush. This is a stencil brush that I am using. You want it to be pretty wet, not too wet. So just start spattering on the Paynes gray. You can really practice the direction that you want to shoot your paint in on another piece of paper, if you are uncomfortable with going right for it. But you should just go for it because we are doing a lion here and come on, we are ferocious, ferociously fun lion. So we are just going to build up all of this speckle texture. See, we have some big ones here that I am not really fond of. So I am just going to dab those out. See, and perfect.
We want it to be very irregular. If you have white spots, dark spots, little spatters, big spatters; the more irregular, the better. We are trying to make it look very gritty because stone is gritty. That's what we are trying to create, this stony, stony lion. This project is very easy and very fun. Little kids love it, so do adults. This is actually a technique that I use in my full finishing when I am doing a stone walls and such. Its really amazing, what just spattering will bring in terms of grittiness to a texture.
So the speckling is complete. I am going to blow dry it because I would like it to be a little darker, a little bit warmer in terms of darkness. The next glaze that we are going to put on is a darker glaze and its more gray. So what I am going to do is I am going to make it really gritty because I like my stone to be nitty-gritty. So I am going to put on, probably, two more layers of grit and wash. Blow drying them after each time to help build up the warmth. You can stop here, if you are wanting to go to the next step. I like to do two or three layers, like this. So we are finished with our speckling and we are getting ready to lay on our next coat, which is a light gray, which is a custom gray that we are going make ourselves. Its a very warm gray and I will show you how to do that next.
How to Paint the Ceiling of a Room
How to Paint the Walls of a Room
How to Paint Room Trim
How to Paint a Portrait
Paint a Portrait-Posing the Model
Paint a Portrait-Putting down the Foundation Image
Paint a Portrait-Mixing the Colors
Paint a Portrait-Applying Color & Creating Form
Paint a Portrait-Adding Details & Finishing the Portrait
(Add Comment)