This really is all about leaving impressions on your support which look totally spontaneous and no trace of a brush mark. What you do, is spatter your paint on to your canvas or just flick it and this will give you interesting speckles, dapples, or mottles.
This type of texturing is quite interesting and can be used for a few different reasons. In landscapes, for example, you can use it to produce effects of the weather, or you can give a rough look surface to your work.
How can you use spattering techniques? They can be used to give the impression of stone walling, beach pebbles, broken surfaces, cobblestones or even distant greenery. Using different styles of spattering you can make very decorative effects.
Maybe your work, in places, has patches of colour that look flat, or you generally want to spice your work up a bit, this may be your answer. You can proceed to build up complicated patterns, but you can also randomly build up colours, or just create a fine mist with one colour.
So, what would you use to produce these effects? Many things could be used for this purpose. Any liquids, like acrylics, watercolours, gouache, or I suppose if you thinned it down, oil paint.
Obviously, to avoid dripping, you need to have your support surface flat or it would spoil any effects you might try to make.
So, what tools might you use for this? Well, an assortment in fact. A nailbrush, toothbrush, a spray with a pump, bristled brush, mouth spray or different forms of artists brushes. As an example, a soft brush or stencil brush.
Now you are ready to spray or splash to your heart's content. So get ready, load your brush with thinned paint and you need a flick with your wrist action. This will give you different sized, large paint, splashing.
You can really build up dense layers by loading your brush, you then hold it above your surface and then hit the handle hard with another brush or something similar. On the other hand, you could spray by taking some sort of garden or household spray container.
Let us try another method, say using a toothbrush for instance. Mix some paint, dip the brush in it and shake off any extra paint. Your brush needs to be held over your support and then I would take a metal ruler and draw it through the bristles.
The pattern will appear differently according to how near or how far away you stand from your work This will give you what I call a speckled look.
A Gum Arabic mix can be used on your support too, bearing in mind that it has to be left to dry. Then you can spatter away with water repeatedly to create your picture.
It is possible too, to use watercolour paper, if it is damp. If you spatter on this it will then bleed. However, if you use the rough watercolour paper you could spatter several different colours, but you would need to leave them to dry in between.
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