Hmm, I wish I meant the other kind of "fooling around," but all I mean is with paint and tissue paper. Inspired by
Kim's work with rice paper and paint and
work with similar materials by
Elis Cooke I got out my tissue paper and one piece of rice paper and set to.
Both of these will need more work or layers after they dry. I used a roller and a paint brush to apply the paint. I
attatched a piece of paper from a sewing pattern, great stuff, and set a plastic lid on the paper to create the circle a la
Elis Cooke.
Paintings done on tissue dry fast. Of course tissue is delicate so you too must be delicate in the application of paint. I used acrylic and
PearlEx powder
metalics mixed with water and/or matte medium.
This one I did on the rice paper. I used a roller to apply the first layer of paint. A brush. I also used some spiral and rectangular
stencils I had made out of
Bristol board. I glued on strips of colored rice paper. This rice paper doesn't crinkle. It doesn't have little threads of fiber in it like some. I had gotten it to do some Chinese Brush Painting in a class so maybe that's why it is a bit heavier. As I worked a theme began to arise. a sort of door into the temple kinda thing so I will work more on this today.
Paper from a little Latin dictionary.
I laid a piece of purple tulle over one section to see if I liked the effect. That would be on the left.
Here is the oil painting that I "ruined." I added those trees on the right. They don't work as they are although I like the way they break up the mostly horizontal shapes of the previous version. I am not good at trees. So we'll see what happens with this once it dries enough for me to paint the trees out and try again.
Both of these will need more work or layers after they dry. I used a roller and a paint brush to apply the paint. I attatched a piece of paper from a sewing pattern, great stuff, and set a plastic lid on the paper to create the circle a la Elis Cooke.
Paintings done on tissue dry fast. Of course tissue is delicate so you too must be delicate in the application of paint. I used acrylic and PearlEx powder metalics mixed with water and/or matte medium.
This one I did on the rice paper. I used a roller to apply the first layer of paint. A brush. I also used some spiral and rectangular stencils I had made out of Bristol board. I glued on strips of colored rice paper. This rice paper doesn't crinkle. It doesn't have little threads of fiber in it like some. I had gotten it to do some Chinese Brush Painting in a class so maybe that's why it is a bit heavier. As I worked a theme began to arise. a sort of door into the temple kinda thing so I will work more on this today.
Paper from a little Latin dictionary.
I laid a piece of purple tulle over one section to see if I liked the effect. That would be on the left.
Here is the oil painting that I "ruined." I added those trees on the right. They don't work as they are although I like the way they break up the mostly horizontal shapes of the previous version. I am not good at trees. So we'll see what happens with this once it dries enough for me to paint the trees out and try again.
