Fascinated by dot-art technique
Since I saw some very great dot art paintings some years ago, i've got developed a fascination for this method. I told myself that I wanted to find out the way to create dot art someday, but never actually took the step to start out trying this myself. I wanted to make dot arts on stones, but never found the proper stones. On stones it's awesome if you have got those with the correct surface for it. a long time ago, I found some stones, thinking they'd be ok for this, but reception I revealed these weren't of much help.
Salt dough rather than stones
I was watching some videos about different crafts and bumped on one demonstrating how you'll make salt dough during a heartbeat and it's super cheap further. numerous cool home decorations are possible with these items, I watched such a big amount of videos after this discovery that I'm now stuffed with ideas. But first I've decided to form simple rounds to show myself how I can make dots for dot art paintings. Doing this on objects is completely different than on paper or canvas, and that i want to find out a way to do so on stones and other objects, this could be perfect to practice.
Let's start
First, you've got to form the salt dough, which is super easy and you almost certainly have already got all the ingredients reception.
This is what you need:
- 1 cupful of flour (about 250g)
- Half a cup of common salt (about 125g)
- Half a cup of water (about 125ml)
Instructions:
Preheat the oven at 100 degrees Celcius.
Mix the flour and salt in a very large bowl. Add the water and stir until it comes together into a ball.
Put flour on your working surface and begin creating whatever you desire to make. i made a decision to only make round plaques to practice the dot art technique, but i will be able to be creating home decoration soon now I've discovered how simple it's to create salt dough creations.
Once satisfied with the creations, put them on a baking sheet on a plate within the oven for 1,5 hour. If you've got created thicker items, you'll have to bak it a bit longer, just check it every 10 minutes more or less.
Let it cool off before you begin painting.
Let's start the painting
So don't expect me to present the good artwork here, as i discussed earlier within the post, this can be to practice the texture of making dots on an object rather than on a flat paper or canvas. I started with one in all the rounds and gave it a yellow base color (I used watercolor paint for this part).
After this had dried, I took my paint and some different sizes of brushes. For this, you'll be able to decide which thickness of brush works best, I tested the center dot with a thick brush but that did not really see that well, so next time i'll just use a smaller one with more paint thereon.
I quickly learned, that having a design ready, instead of just do something may be a smarter idea, but a minimum of I didn't ruin any expensive object or cool stone here but only cheap salt dough :)
I tried making some circles round the middle dot, using different colors but I clearly used deficient paint as they were quickly sucked into the salt dough (so it seems). But I'm not visiting quit now, let's finish it and obtain at home with the sensation of making dots.
I'm glad I continued because once I started using the white paint, the dots began to get more actual dots on top of the dough rather than being sucked in immediately. this can be what I wanted to work out. I discovered that I needed more paint on my brush to form these and needed to double-check if my brush was dry enough after changing colors. Unfortunately, sometimes it clad a small amount wet.
The end result from above. Not a good piece, but I'm sure I can make some kiddo pleased with it. Next attempt i will be able to start dotting with a design on paper so i've got some guidelines to begin with. it's proven to be harder on behalf of me to try and do it without a thought.
Hopefully you liked the concept of this artwork on salt dough. Stay safe, and until next time!