My art video watching continues - as long as the news is so depressing, I'm watching more art videos in an attempt to limit my daily dose of outrage. This piece was inspired by another video by Marta Lapkowska. We've moved on from toilet paper roll dandelions to using those elegant tubes to paint backgrounds.
As usual, I got carried away with the process and forgot to take a picture at the beginning. The technique is pretty simple- you essentially use the paper roll like a brayer. Because of the texture and flimsy nature of the roll, you don't get full coverage, but something more abstract . Roll tube in paint and roll onto your paper. I really couldn't get the tube to do much actual rolling, so did some sort of "drop, roll, drag" on the paper.
I used a combination of acrylic paints:
After getting the paint on the paper and while it is still wet, rub some circles in the wet paint with your finger.
Then I added some black and white circles around the smudged ones using a cardboard tube - white paint for the white ones and stamped the black ones with StazOn ink.
I added some white paint dots , some text stamping, and a quote that seemed appropriate for this experiment.
Check out Mart's videos and FaceBook group - she does such fun stuff.
And in case you don't have a supply of toilet paper rolls ( who doesn't ?), you can purchase them on Etsy , Ponder that thought for a minute !!
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