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Painted Animal Print.
February 22, 2007 |
Painting editor Rebecca Lopez writes…
I found a very clever technique for making an animal print with paint that I had to share.
The paint used is Krylon® Interior-Exterior Paint but this could easily be done with regular paint.
In the instructions you are to spray paint the background with a color and then spray it with a very similar but a darker tone in diagonal stripes.
To achieve a soft effect using a craft paint or other liquid/pour acrylic use a foam paint brush and paint the lighter color,moving your brush in one direction only..for me it’s downwards or towards my body. Then while the paint is still wet, using a small amount of the darker color on another clean foam brush, paint diagonal stripes…blending the lighter and darker at the edges of the stripes so the “melt” into one another. Again, you are moving in only one direction as you paint. After [...]
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great idea…. did my stuff before i came across this page. you should check it out… its called kitty kingdom left you the web address…. hope to hear from you… thanks again