Rainbows with Stencils or Masks

The "rainbow" technique can be done in at least two ways -- with a Gelli Plate, or with a sponge brayer loaded with heavy-body acrylic paint.  Today's post features the latter.  I think the colors may be more intense when using today's brayer method, since a sponge brayer will hold a heavier paint load than what's typically spread across a Gelli Plate.

Today's main tool is the mask/stencil Garden Montage (9" x 12".)

Above:  on the left, a brayer and two colors of acrylic heavy-body paint, laid out side-by-side.  On the right, the metallic-painted substrate and the stencil/mask.

The next two photos below show close-ups of the substrate, under the stencil/mask, as well as the brayer and the two colors of acrylic paint--

My next step was to load the brayer with with colors of paint --

-- and I followed this with running the brayer down the combination of the stencil/mask and the substrate.  I held the stencil/mask in place with one hand and used the brayer with the other.....

After starting the left edge with this two-color paint, I flipped the brayer over to start the next downward roll of paint; see below:

This flipping-over (shown above) enabled me to have the two areas of blue together, moving downward.  See below ....

Below is the finished product -- the stencil/mask has been lifted so that the gold metallic paper shows thru beneath the stripes of paint.

Below are more "rainbow" prints.

Above:  Created with 6" x 6" Trivet B stencil.

Created with 9" x 12" Garden Montage

Created with Garden Montage 

Created with Longwood Florals Stencil and the 9" x 12" stencil Garden Montage 

Created with Garden Montage 

Try using 3 colors of paint this way!

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