Use a picture, like this one, as a reference when painting your popcorn.
There are a couple of broad methods for incorporating popcorn in art. You can paint images of popcorn using just three or four brush strokes or a few squirts from a can of spray paint. It is a particularly unique image that you rarely see in art or even graffiti painting, which makes for a fun, one-of-a-kind project. For an added touch of quirk, you can hang your results in the kitchen (or bathroom if you want to be extra silly). Another option is to paint actual popcorn before stringing it together to use as decorations. This is a fun project that's particularly great for children.
Instructions
Painting Popcorn in Art
1. Acquire spray paints in black or dark brown, dark cream or yellow and bone white. Place a fine-line-making tip on the black or brown paint. You can use standard tips for the other colors. Use the yellow or dark cream shade to make a popcorn shape on the surface of your choice. The shape is usually a round middle with two or three little bits hanging around it. Use the bone white to spray in the middle of the round parts and secondary bits, then use the brown or black to make a line at the edge of the secondary bits. Your popcorn is done.
2. Use bright paints like acrylic or oil in titanium white and dark sienna colors. Mix a touch of dark sienna with the white to make a darker white shade. Take the darker white shade and use a paintbrush to make the main rounded portion with smaller portions sticking out. Take the pure white and paint in the center of each dark white area. Use the dark sienna (and black, if you like) to paint the burst kernel portions.
3. Draw the popcorn on watercolor paper and apply a masking agent to the center of the popcorn and of the sections that stick out. Take a cream or beige shade, mix with water and apply over and around the mask with the area of your drawing. Wait for this to dry and remove the mask. Use a dark brown or black to paint in the kernel.
Painting Popcorn
4. Buy or make your paint. Depending on whether or not you plan to eat the popcorn, you can make a paint using sweetened evaporated milk and food coloring or use a nonedible powder paint such as a dry tempera paint.
5. Paint the popcorn with the edible paint using a brush.
6. Pour some powder paint into plastic sandwich bags and then pour in some popcorn.
7. Shut the bags and shake until the popcorn is evenly covered.
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