The Magic of Spray Ink On Gesso

It’s amazing the amount of different kinds of art mediums that are available to us right now. And what’s even more amazing is when you use them together.

I heard that new products are made just by mixing various mediums together. I’m assuming the risk of accidentally concocting a toxic mix is pretty low.

Today, I want to show you what happens when you spray ink onto dried gesso. It really is pretty cool.

Ok. Let’s start. I used pieces of card stock so that I could later use them for artist trading cards - I’m addicted to making them.

I also chose to use small background stencils; tho you could do this with any stencil.

 Then, I placed the stencil over my piece of card stock and started to apply white gesso over the stencil.

I used a sponge brush and pounced the gesso to cover the whole design and piece of card stock.

Here‘s what it looked like after I pulled off the stencil. Don’t forget to clean your stencils afterward. I use a toothbrush when I rinse mine.

‘And then I let it dry.

After my gessoed paper was dry, I started doing the colorful part.

I sprayed my ink sprays over my gesso design. I used a few different colors.

When I was done, a puddle of ink was left on my card stock and design. But I could already see what a difference there was between the gessoed parts and the plain paper.

As it dries, the difference becomes more stark. It almost seems like something is magically appearing. I made a few more, and in one of them, the gesso design wasn’t evident at first, and it took time before the design emerged.

 But look how cool this one ended up being.

And here are the others.

I hope you all have fun trying this. And don’t forget that you can upload pics of how yours come out in the comments section.

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