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Experiments: a great way to learn

September 17, 2021

Hands-on boosts confidence to try other projects

Watercolor over adhesive lace pattern

Black and lacy, the two Squareathon prompts for today.

I’ve obsessed the past three days with how to get a lace pattern onto paper and tried two methods: 1. spray adhesive as a resist with a watercolor wash, and 2. spray paint. The short video below shows watercolor over adhesive.

I reused the sticky lace under a coat of spray paint and it tore the paper coming off in one spot. The adhesive was applied too thick, I think.

The dry lace with spray paint gave the crisper results. Another short video below shows spray paint over lace.

More experimentation is in order. I envision painting a large abstract incorporating some of these lace pattern transfer techniques. 

Spray paint over lace

Have you any experience with using lace in your work? I’d love to hear about it! Send me an email.

Spray paint over wet and dry lace

Filed Under: Art Projects, Creative Education Tagged With: art techniques, squareathon

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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