Hi. I’m Spencer, one of the designers here at Design House Digital. I also happen to be married to the wonderfully talented Jen Allyson, aka the Project Girl, hence my title Mr. Project. I like to tinker and explore new things.
While rummaging through some of my old art supplies the other day, I discovered these awesome marker ink bottles that I bought off an old college professor of mine for 25 cents a bottle. Killer deal. They come in different shades of gray.
My plan was to make some awesomely grungy splatter patterns that I could then turn into textures and brushes to use in my design process. I’d never done this before, so i figured I’d need a decent cardboard box. Luckily, we’re big amazon shoppers and I had just the right sized box lying around our place.
I took the box and taped the flaps together so that they formed a good barrier against splashing. I wouldn’t recommend doing this over a carpeted area, but it was cold outside and I had to give it a shot. I had some special paper in my stuff called Marker Paper.
Some of you may have used it, but if you haven’t it’s special because it doesn’t bleed that much, which is nice when using large quantities of inks and other chemicals to get splatter patters.
I also had some rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, and salt on hand. I’m sure if you wanted you could use other chemicals too. Just be careful not to pass out from any noxious fumes that result from reckless experiments.
The next part was fun. I stood on a chair and dropped some ink into the paper in the box. The result was beautiful and unique grunge splatters. I tried a few different things like sopping up excess ink with cotton balls, dripping more alcohol on after I let it dry, soaking the papers in alcohol and then applying ink, and letting the papers hang to get runs.
