#bubble painting

[tamovicha]

Sprat in a bubble

Acrylic on canvas | 10x10cm

[cryptid-stimming]

Bubble Bats

[Image ID: two gifs of someone bubble painting, in the first gif they have used gray paint and dish soap to create bubbles on a piece of card which they pop leaving circles of paint. In gif two the camera pans over the dried painting, bat silhouettes are painted around the bubbles and the paper has been splattered with more gray paint.]

[tigrensis]

It begins!!!

[enigmew]

its rouge! cool kid pose rouge :3

[cryptid-stimming]

Bubble Painting

[Image ID: four gifs of someone using paint mixed with dish soap and a star cookie cutter to do bubble painting. They press the cookie cutter to black card to create yellow, pink and green star bubbles and then use their fingertip to pop the bubbles.]

[cryptid-stimming]

Source

[Image ID: six gifs of someone painting a rainbow color by color with bubbles and paint.]

[tigrensis]

Adventures in Sampling

Right now I'm having fun with experimenting with different methods of ageing and distressing. Whilst it doesn't necessarily fall into this category I was interested in using bubble painting to create a mottled effect on fabric. I've been using this jacket as a canvas for these experiments. The previous experiment with seeds had to be called off last year but I'll be trying again this spring/summer.

To start off I tried using silk paints. This did not work at all and none of it showed up on the fabric.

I then swapped to black acrylic paint. This showed up on the fabric (remnants of a loose woven linen) but the colour bled into the fabric meaning all detail was lost.

I kind of liked the mottled effect towards the centre but the whole right side was wrong.

I tried using the paint on paper to make sure that my paint to water ratio was right.

This proved that the mix was fine, it was likely my fabric choices causing problems. I decided to use small pieces of the fabric the jacket is made of. I had very little of this remaining so I had to be careful with what I tried. I started off with the same method as the first attempts. The result was much better. The thicker fabric was less absorbent so there was almost no bleed and the bubbles were better defined.

I wasn't completly happy though, I wanted to see larger bubble outlines like the ones on the paper. Thinking through the differences between the fabric and paper, I realised that the paper was much stiffer than the fabric. To test this theory I interfaced my second piece of scuba suede before painting.

This result was so much better than the first with much more defined bubbles.

Just to confirm my theory about stiffness I interfaced a piece of the first fabric and tested it out.

Even though bleed was still a problem I prefer this much more than the first attempts.

Tommorow I'll be applying this to the jacket. The plan is to use an embroidery hoop for stiffness because the jacket has no interfacing.

[enigmew]

day 4, i forgot it <3 bubble prinxe.