My current preoccupation is with collage. Up to now I've used pieces of painted card, but thought I would try painting tissue paper as an alternative.
Most tissue paper is not suitable, as it just disintegrates when wet, but I did have some Paper Artsy tissue, which is more robust - shame it is no longer available. I also found some of their Crunchy Kraft paper.
I randomly painted some sheets, using a brayer, sequin waste, bottle tops, etc. with a few splatters!
The new size of box canvas for me is 6" x 16" - prompted by a couple of friends who had done a workshop using this size.
Ingredients used: texture paste, stencils, die-cut honeycomb shapes, and book pages. I enjoyed using the painted tissue, though it is a little fiddly to hand cut the petals!
You will notice the attempted dribbles of gold. I tried using Liquid Gold, but it is too thick to run any distance and I couldn't find my thinner. Whilst trying to get it to run - disaster struck! I knocked over the bottle. What a mess, all I could do was mop it up with lots of pieces of card - so watch out for a proliferation of gold items in future projects!
I did love this size of canvas, so now I've got 2 more to do!
Tall and Skinny - just what I would like to be. Look forward to seeing the next two.
ReplyDeleteWow, a breathtaking canvas. Fantastic details.
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