Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design

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This is an old, tried-and-true technique that can be hokey at worst

and quite delightful at best. The science behind this technique is

that salt sucks water to itself, and because salt is a crystal, it not

only sucks up the water, but leaves a crystalline image behind.

If you sprinkle table salt into damp, darkish wash (a wet layer of

paint), within seconds you’ll see little snowfl ake images appear.

This seems foolproof, but of course, it isn’t. For this technique to

work, make sure you don’t pour the salt on, and when you sprinkle

the salt, you have to do it at exactly the right moment. You want to

put the salt on when the wash has just lost ...