Making a Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting

Craft: Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting

katrine2706
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September 27, 2019

Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting - finished artwork Spray paint can be expensive. When you have something simple to do with your kid and you need spray paint but you can't afford one, use a clean old toothbrush. Today, I'm teaching Halloween arts using the effect of stencils and a toothbrush.

Supplies:

Halloween pattern cut outs/stencil
clean old toothbrush
water
water colors
black art paper as the base

Steps:

Lay your stencil or cutouts over the black paper. I started with the moon and the witch. Use the open part where you cut the moon. Place the witch in the center.

Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting - hand sketched witch on a broomstick and a circle cut in white paper for the moon

Dip the brush into the water, remove excess liquid, then into the white water color.

Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting - dipping toothbrush in watercolor paint

Rub your thumb against the brush to spread/sprinkle paint over the stencil. Don't forget to cover the other parts of the paper.

Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting - spattering paint using toothbrush

Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting - white paint spattered on black paper to define the moon and witch

Carefully remove the stencil and it should look like this.

Halloween Toothbrush Spray Painting - witch flying across the moon

Cover your first work (the moon). Add all the other figures, trees, bats, etc. Then sprinkle a combination and/or layers of color. I used white, blue, violet, and yellow (as the final layer). Color combinations add effect so it is important to think which ones go well together.