Blowing Paint with Canned Air – Messy!

I had done a number of paintings in the past where I blew the paint with a straw and several people had suggested that it would be much easier with canned air. I was skeptical – I am of most things until I try them – but I still had to give it a go! So here I’ll be blowing paint with canned air on an old Barbara Streisand LP record.

Here are some of the previous projects where the paint was blown with a straw.

• Just blowin’ the blues
• Pouring and blowing my largest painting so far
• Fire! Pouring and blowing on a vinyl record
• YouTube challenge black, white, metallic and blowing

I got myself a can of that air used for cleaning out electronics, computer keyboards and the like. It has a little trigger and a straw to direct the air. Even being careful and trying to blow the smallest amount of air, it was pretty powerful! I was half expecting this project to be messy so I did put out some extra plastic on the floor. I totally underestimated quite HOW messy this was going to be! The plastic was nowhere near large enough, paint went everywhere! I had to spend a long time scrubbing both the floor and the furniture when this one was over!

Materials used in this project:
LP vinyl record
Paints left over from previous projects
Floetrol
Treadmill belt lubricant
Canned air
Avery glossy round labels to cover the hole in the record

Recipe for this project:
These paints were all left overs or premixed. The recipe would be approx 1 part Floetrol to 2 parts paint, water as necessary for getting the right paint consistency. Minimal silicone.

Well that was fun, interesting and messy! My end result wasn’t too great but in truth, I hadn’t been expecting it to be so I had only used up some leftover paints and the colors weren’t great. But looking on the bright side, this could work if you had a much larger project to do, in a well-protected room and with better colors. Blowing the paints over each other like this really does make some cool patterns and cells.