How to Use Advanced Spraying Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you today how to do advanced painting techniques. I hope that everyone is ready to get their hands a little more dirty. Well, dirtier than they already are. Basically, what we're going to be focusing on next was what I call spraying. Did you ever have a situation where you maybe wanted to show water across the canvas? Or something more in a liquid state or maybe even like some type of cosmic interstellar motion, something like that, this tip is basically, this technique is going to show you how to do that. First off, let's take a fan brush and get some pigment. Now, this pigment is going to stay near the tips of the fan brush. You can actually see where I've stained the fan brush with past paintings. You shouldn't be getting much deep than that for the fan brush. Next, we're going to use our media. I have liquid media, which I like. It's a little more viscous than turpentine. Turpentine is pretty close to watery and it's a lot less intense, chemical wise. Take your fan brush and douse it. Douse it, douse it, douse it. I want tons of liquid on the edge of this. I want it to almost be dripping. Here's where we get our fingers dirty. I hope you don't have to run down to dinner any time soon. Now, with the fan brush doused with paint and with our media, you're going to take it, you're going to grip it in your fingers like this, pull it back and let it go. Whoa! Look at that! My goodness! Now, hold it a little bit closer if you wanted to get more controlled bursts like that, like follows. But, if you want to get like a wide splay, then you kind of hold it back then let it go and there you go. And now, you can already see like your fingers are already getting wonderfully grimy. Now, you can basically repeat this effect as many times as you want, depending on how much basically speckling or liquid affects you want on your canvas. The more angles you put into this, the more motion you'll get. You'll get it where the speckles will hit on impact then go a certain direction. So definitely, you can think about this. You can let this dry, come back to it and do another speckling in black or another color. I mean I've seen almost entire canvases built up over multiple layers of speckling."