CMMAG Play Day at Sharon's

I belong to the Carolina Mixed Media Artist Guild. Every year we have a play day at a member’s studio and have round robin demonstrations of a technique and then bring enough supplies to let the other members try it out.

This year scarves were requested. I was trying to find a technique that would be fast, different and unique. I was scanning through Facebook and saw a video of an elementary class applying color via bubbles….. They mixed paint to the bubble solution, cut plastic bottles in half, attached netting to the base and dabbed the applicator into the solution then “blew” bubbles through the bottle top and the bubbles landed on the paper…

Of course I found inspiration.

I tried to do it the same in the video but it didn’t come out at all the same….so I took a different approach…thinking of the old bubble piles I had as a kid, I created the below applicator and it worked GREAT!!!

My fellow Guildies found it amusing as well

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But the color went on very random (which I love) and the colors blended very well. I used Marabu Silk paint and it worked beautifully. It has water like consistency so it blended well with the bubbles.

And then the bubbles began!!



Me trying not to breathe in the bubbles by accident

Then we add blue



And then the red

Then it went out to dry

Others tried it and everyone seemed to have a great time playing with it!!





The scarves turned out pretty nice!



all in all it was a successful Play Day!!!