Yea the stock started as black and I wasn’t really planning on using black paint. I was just going to leave some black uncovered. I started with some big random areas of each color and let them kind of bleed into each other. Really this was hard for me because I suck at random. My brain always wants to structure things and make patterns.
After that there was not much black left so I started adding a little black here and there then started dabbing around the outside of the colors to separate them which made it look really good. So the black is dabbed thick on the outside edges of the colors and then is dabbed lighter and more spread out as it gets toward the center of each color.
I used small torn off pieces of natural sponge. I spent some time testing different sizes and types of torn pieces to get the effect I was looking for. I’ve said before, I practiced and had a big plan to make a completely different design that copied another member here. 5 minutes in that went out the window and it just became what it wanted to become lol. Once I realized you can’t really screw up it got to be pretty fun. If if you do screw up an area you just let it dry and go over it again.
