Homemade Spray Paint

For another "artsy" blog post I am making my own spray paint and attempting an ombre type painting.  You will need a spray bottle,(the size of the spray bottle doesn't matter), one type of color of tempera paint, and another bottle of white tempera paint. Tempera paint can be found at Micheal's or Walmart for two dollars per bottle! You will want to have a plastic sheet underneath your paper you are spraying, or if the weather is nice, you can go outside.  Tempera paint is washable, so even if you get some on carpet, or clothes, it will come out with soap and water! For your paper I glued two pieces of card stock paper together because the regular paper I tried to use the first time ripped very easily.
Spread out the plastic sheet of paper with the card stock in the middle. When I first found this demonstration it said to use two parts paint, one part water, but I have found that the paint gets stuck very easily in the tube of the spray bottle if you use this formula.  Instead mix 2 parts water, one part paint. You can mix it by shaking the bottle above the plastic sheet, it will most likely leak a little.
For starters use a plastic garbage bag and spray the inside of the bag with the spray bottle, once it is a fine, solid color mix spray it about two feet above the paper lightly.  The painting will dry in about ten minutes, always turning into an interesting painting.
For the ombre painting I divided the sheet up into eight rectangles, marking the spots with a pencil mark.  I then took another piece of card stock and tapped it over the double card stock paper, only leaving one rectangle of the double card stock paper visible. After making sure the spray was fine and the color solid I sprayed the first rectangle lightly.
Moving on to the next rectangle I used another piece of card stock to cover up the rectangle that has already been painted. You don't have to wait for the paint to dry before you move on to the next rectangle on your paper. To make the color a little lighter I squirted a small amount of white Tempera paint into the spray bottle and swished it around, in order to prevent the consistency from becoming too thick I also added some more water to the mix. You will see that sometimes the white paint will get stuck in the tube of the spray bottle, and that sometimes you will not get a fine mist but a thin line squirting out of the bottle, that is why it is VERY important to squirt the inside of a garbage bag a couple times BEFORE squirting the paper.
You continue this pattern of shifting the papers to the next rectangle and adding both white tempera paint and water to the spray bottle until you reach the end of your paper.  I used a red tempera color so by the time I reached the bottom of my paper it was a pinkish color.
As my first time with this project the painting didn't turn out as well as I had intended, but I will do another blog sometime in the future with this same "Spray Paint" idea, so stay tuned!
(I do however really like how the other random squirt paintings turned out!)