What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood?Submitted 4 days ago by FATALRPG@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Too busy for my testosterone shot, might as well use the consequences.
Would there be anything I’d need to chemically treat it with? Ways to avoid smell? Or I’m I good just shoving a brush up there and going to town?
Friend did this for an art project, it didn’t smell. Like all blood it dries to a kinda browny colour, but beyond that it was fairly unremarkable. The reactions from other people were certainly interesting though!
Most people that work with blood collect it and use it quickly. That’s more difficult to do with menstruum. But, if you’re willing to work at a slow enough pace, it’s doable. I’m too lazy to go searching for it, but you wouldn’t be the first person to do it
The issue with menstruum is that it isn’t just blood. So you may need to use a mesh strainer if there’s solids involved. You can’t really paint or use it as ink with solids.
Once you’ve got enough to fill a brush, if you’ll be painting, you just go to it. Blood as paint is very thin. Don’t expect much coverage. Think really thin water color, and you’ll approach the useful techniques. The pigment in blood that shows on paper is the red blood cells mostly, with plasma being what allows it to stick to the paper (and canvas is not great unless you have massive volumes to work with). If this was a long term project instead of making use of a limited supply, I’d say to dry it out, then grind it into a pigment to mix up as tempera tbh.
Anything you would mix in to the fresh supply is going to thin it out more; to the point that it won’t show well at all. Luckily, it isn’t going to smell once dry. You can then use your favorite spray fixative and call it done. It’ll last as well as any other reactive pigment.
That’s it, enough Internet for me today.
Menstrual Cup to retrieve the blood. I have no other tips tho.
I know someone who did this back in college, mostly as a prank. She found a product that was made specifically to collect menstrual blood. I’m not sure what it’s called, but she described it as some sort of cup. There really wasn’t much to it. She just collected it, then painted a simple picture, then gave it to a friend as a prank gift.
Side note: I knew a hippie woman years ago that fed her weed plants menstrual blood. Shared a joint with her and it was some good shit too.
Obviously let it dry first, then use fixative spray? Not that I’m an expert. Or make finding the preservation part of the artistic process. Alcohol? Lemon juice? Ashes? Lime?
A Hobby Lobby canvas. Since Joann died and Micheals is far more expensive, I’m occasionally forced to resort to them. I make sure that a good portion of my art work is profane or has explicit political messaging to even out the karmic energy.
I excitedly misread this as saying Hobby Lobby is the canvas
Don’t do this. Please.
This reminds me of the lead singer of Perfect Pussy (I think it was them). She used her blood in the mix to dye the vinyl records red.
It’s going to turn a sickly brown-black color. I have some veinous blood on wall art and it honestly looks like tried ketchup at this point. I’m not sure what preservative would work though.
As others said, it’s gonna be thin like watercolor. Maybe it can be mixed with ink?
Man, if I had enough money to buy eggs, I wouldn’t be making homemade paint.
I can’t help with your art, but I’m curious about the connection between the t shot and menstrual cycles. Bf has been getting closer and closer to mustering the courage to figure out how to get on T, so I’m curious to hear some of the side effects people have.
It’s luck of the draw there. For me, it’s 100% off when I’m consistent - this is the first cycle I’ve had in like 5 years. But I’ve known people who kept having their cycle regardless. It’s very much an individual thing, but I think the typical experience is that it stops within six or so months. Check a resource like Hudson’s Guide too.
If you engage in sex that can lead to babies, remember testosterone is not birth control on its own.
I imagine you’d want to put a layer of clear acrylic or something on top of it
The concern there might be that it would rot underneath that acrylic. I’ve seen videos of things like hotdogs encased in epoxy that eventually spring leaks.
Maybe baking it would be a good idea. Something to sterilize, powder and mix into a binder.
Dried blood and a fucking chunk of fresh food must surely behave differently.
I’d suggest something like alcohol, but im not an expert on blood painting
Just get a paintbrush and hope for the best. Maybe mix it with some isopropyl alcohol.
That takes too many cycles to collect enough blood.
Get pregnant and use the aborted fetus blood to paint. I mean, that’s technically like… menstrual blood with extra steps, right?
(Sorry, I just arrived on this planet and have no idea how human anatomy works)
implying abortion is legal where i live
Cloth Hanger
Oh no there’s definitely enough blood
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Well this is pushing the boundaries of “No Stupid Questions”
FATALRPG@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You’re telling me that you wouldn’t watch a Liveleak video titled “fat guy paints from his vagina?”
I’m pushing the boundaries of art here, mon cheri.
skeezix@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Great idea!!! Just use a good quality natural fibre fan-tip brush. You might as well up your game. For rocks and cliffs and other dark areas you can smear your shit on the canvas. Use a palette knife to work it in small areas. Blow some boogers for tree and foliage texture. Give the final composition an overwash of piss to give it a wholesome warmth.