Despite the arm pain I actually managed to do some bits. In fact because I took the day off to see the doctor I had some free time and in a moment of madness I just decided to knock out a couple more Vortex templates. Having enjoyed the fun of them in my last game I'm hoping for a number of doubles in future games and I though three would be sufficent. I originally completed the first one in July last year and had put aside a couple of the Christmas baubles the other day.
Sadly I didn't take any pictures this time but I did adapt how I made them, without considering the original tutorial:
- I used masking tape to attach a tissue round the outside to avoid overspray
- I bunched the tissue up and this formed a support to hold the bauble in a plastic cup
- when I did the colour spray I rolled up some card into a U shape so it would fit inside the bauble - when I sprayed I could get more defined lines and edges inside the bauble while masking off other areas
- my spots were more uniform, bigger and more of them
- I also switched in a green spray for a bit of variety
- didn't really do any streaks
- could have done to do:
- less spots,
- a spray of colour,
- then some more white spots for added depth,
- a light spray of black,
- more spots,
- final coat of black