DIY Jackson Pollock Phone Case

At lunch today, I was chatting with former British Vogue Fashion Co-ordinator, now freelance journalist, Sara Hassan. In the middle of our conversation, she spotted my phone case and asked me where I got it. I told her I painted it myself using toothpicks and canvas paint and she was like, "Oh you should totally promote this and sell it. Get Urban Outfitters to sell it or something (ugh I wish)." And then she was like, "Write a blogpost about this." 

And because she is one of my writer inspirations (cuz #duh graduating from Central St. Martins with a BA Hons degree and then landing a job at British Vogue AND THEN working at Sunday Times Style as the Fashion Editor AND NOW working as a super cool dinosaur-sweater-clad freelancer? #thedream), I had to oblige. 

The muse for this technicolor phone case came from my painter crush, Jackson Pollock, cuz he completely changed the painting world with his drip technique plus he created a new painter-canvas dynamic by standing on his work plus he lived the off-the-grid-hermit lifestyle (recluses intrigue me). That being said, I didn't completely emulate his drip technique with accuracy. But at least I tried? 

My attempt at drip painting produced more of a feather aesthetic rather than the squiggly entropy of Pollock. But even though I didn't master the look of Convergence, I'm still a fan of my art-inspired phone case (and I've gotten a lot of compliments on it so woo to that). If y'all are interested in DIY-ing your phone case to be Jackson Pollock-esque, here's how (it's really easy): 

1) Get toothpicks and canvas paint (I got mine from Michael's for 2 dollars). 

2) Dip a toothpick into one of the canvas paint colors and swish it over the phone case so paint drips onto the case.

3) Repeat Step 2 with the other colors and keep repeating until the entire phone case is filled with paint. 

(To quicken the process, try to get as much paint on the toothpick as possible and just splotch the glob of paint onto the phone case.) 

Told ya it was simple! I listened to music whilst painting and found the activity to be quite therapeutic, so I def recommend giving it a go. 

Happy painting!

Music

When We Were Young by Dillon Francis 

Without You by Dillon Francis 

Balance by Opus Orange

Artificial Heart by Opus Orange

xx