- 1). Prepare a glaze of one or many blue colors, such as Parisian blue and French ultramarine, along with a glaze of liquid black. Depending on your taste, paint the sky midnight or twilight blue. Avoid using too much black. A tiny amount deepens blue colors to perfection.
- 2). Paint the glaze onto a completely dry canvas. If using a base color, such as titanium white to pick up brilliant white stars, the paint must be firmly dry to the touch and not sticky. Using a dark glaze over pale colors picks up light needed in the night sky. Always use a soft brush and a light hand to apply glaze.
- 3). Cover any parts of the painting you don't want to spatter with paper towels.
- 4). Saturate a large and stiff-bristled brush, such as a No. 10 flat bristle brush or oil toothbrush, in lemon yellow paint or a mixture of lemon yellow, burnt umber and titanium white. Keep a small amount of medium close to your paint to thin the mixture if desired
- 5). Precisely target where the spatter should hit the canvas. Practice the technique if you've never tried it before on an old canvas or paper. Use wrist movements to snap the brush in the direction you'd like the paint to travel. Don't use your entire arm or you'll splatter paint in the work area.
- 6). Soak a large brush, such as a No. 10 flat bristle brush, in paint thinner. Then, using a controlled wrist motion, snap the brush into the midnight blue glaze. Author Liz Wagstaff recommends using lapis lazuli blue and tiny amounts of gold in her starry sky example published in "Paint Recipes: A Step By Step Guide To Colors and Finishes For the Home."
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