I would get her & a few friends in old clothes and give them paintbrushes and a few cans of paint. Dip the brushes and fling the paint at each other, the walls, whatever. Voila! Splatter painted walls!
I would bet the "splatter paint look" she may be anticipating is not going to be easily created on a vertical surface? There will be more runs, drips and errors, than "Jackson Pollack" type of splatters. Or if she wants more soft, finer splatters, the horizontal surface will still work much easier.
I would highly suggest using pieces of 4 x 8 foot primed/painted masonite or homasote board for this rather than the walls? Lay them down flat (driveway, garage, basement) and squirt, drip, splatter, till the desired looks are obtained. Then predrill and attach them to the walls with screws.
If you use homasote board, it is lightweight and can also double as a great push-pin bulletin board if wanted.
When it comes time to repaint the room (maybe after she moves out?) It will be easy to remove the panels, spackle a few screw holes and repaint. (Depending on how heavy handed the splatter paint on the walls would be, this could also avoid excessive sanding?)
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Maybe you could persuade daughter for more of a colorwash type of look with different transparent shades, practice on a board til you get desired effect...I say this only because the previous owner of my home did a splatter effect on many walls and it was a nightmare to sand and probably not too healthy of a thing for us to have done at the time either...how long will the splatter look be her interest? Painting over would give a bumpy finish in leiu of much sanding.
