Summary: Plastic wrap is used as a design texture by pressing it to wet paint and stamping it to another piece of paper. Experiment with plastic wrap with tips from an artist in this free design video.
Gretchen Kibbe is an artist and part-time faculty member at Appalachian State University. She worked as a scenic artist on the Spike Lee movie School Daze.read more
"The other way I'm going to try and I don't know how this is going to work but it’s here and I want to try it. This is, this is just a cheap piece of glass, I'm putting acrylic on it and you've got to work fast here. You may want to spray this again with a little water to keep it damp. I'm going to, I'm going to do this again and see if I can create some texture and I can and there's two ways to go about this. You can either transfer this just gently rub it and pull it up. So it's sort of like taking a print off of plastic or you can put this directly on the piece of, I don't think the Saran Wrap probably this is going to be very subtle. And I'm just going to sort of rub this on the back so you get sort of a more water, a more watery version. Let me get the water bottle out of the way, so we've got three ways of sort of doing the same thing. So you put it directly on the paper and you know if you're very patient you can really control it so I've got this kind of neat kind going here. On this one I, you know, made an impression on glass, put it on the Saran Wrap and put it on the paper. And this one I went and just left what was left on the Saran Wrap and transferred it to the paper. On these two I think you know, I could have let the paper get a little less damp it's that special you know, just before it hits mat that you want to get this to work. But you can see that you know, you play around with this and you do you know you can't always make that effect but you're always going to get some kind of really cool effect. And you know, as a beginning texture, as a beginning sky perhaps this is a great way to start."