I am back with my next challenge mani, Graffiti.
When I thought about this prompt I immediately thought of the type of graffiti that was shown in the documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, as apposed to tagging and spray painting. When I watched that documentary I immediately fell in love with the work of a street artist using the name Space Invader. Most of Space Invader's work is tile work depicting classic 8-bit arcade game characters, like the space invaders, Pac-Man, the Pac-Man ghosts, and others. I knew I would not be able to recreate the 8-bit look with polish(although small square studs would have worked, Ah hindsight, always 20/20), so I attempted to capture more the feeling of his work.
I started with a base of 2 coats OPI Lost on Lombard, a brick red crelly. I only have the mini's from this collection, San Francisco Fall 2013.
Once this was dry I got out BM422 for the brick pattern and Kleancolor Black(I did not use Konad because I wanted the stamp to look more like a shadow and so did not want the lines too opaque). I then started in with my dotting tool a small striping brush and the following colours: SHID(Sally Hansen Insta-Dri) Blue-Away, Cobalt Blue, Kleancolor Black, Grass Green, Sinful Colors Snow Me White and Barry M Blood Orange and Key Lime.
Unfortunately I did not use SV but my Nubar Top Coat and did not wait quite long enough for the polish to dry to stop it from smudging.
That is all for this post but I will be back soon with Pointillism. The last post for today.
Until then, polish happy!
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