Design Texture: Plastic Wrap

Video Transcript

"We're going to just try a couple of things with, again, things that you have around your house, with some paint. It can be any kind of acrylic paint, the paint is almost the least of it. You can also do this with watercolor. But you want to, this time you want to draw out your sheet of plastic wrap and try to keep it flat if that's possible, it's not always possible. Because you want to control more, for once, you want to control what this is doing. So you want to kind of lay it out so that you've got a sheet there, and I'll get another sheet out just in case. So I have a couple of sheets to work with. I'm going to dampen my surface, this is just an empty bottle but it has a spray top so that I can spray my surface. Now this is sort of the "quick and dirty" way to do, I'm going to put some paint on here for right now. The first way is pretty straight forward where you apply a wash of paint and you want to pre-wet the ground because otherwise the acrylic will dry too fast. So you have to work into a wet ground. So, again, sketch paper isn't going to work for you, you need a paper that can stand up to getting wet. Now I've got my Saran Wrap here, usually you can just place it on and try to plan what, I'm trying to get some diagonal ridges going, so I'm going to try to work my Saran Wrap here into a definite pattern instead of just laying it on and being sort of, just sort of generally."