A few weeks ago, my son and I were talking about how to make aged papers by soaking paper in tea. That lead to a fun morning of experimentation with different kinds of tea and coffee. He showed me how to crinkle the paper to enhance the overall distressed effect. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, I had collected a bunch of leaves and was pressing them between layers of assorted papers from the recycle bin after putting ink on the paper, and on the leaves. We soon had a big stack of papers, which we pressed under our trusty Webster's unabridged dictionary for over a week. It took that paper forever to dry! But the end result is some beautifully textured and colored papers that I can incorporate into my collages.
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"Things are not what they seem"
Mixed media on 4" x 4" canvas |
The face was an afterthought here. It started as an abstract, but as I looked at it from across the room, I saw a face, so I sketched and painted to define it more clearly.
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"Helpful"
Mixed Media on 5" x 8" canvas
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"Mourning"
Mixed Media on 6" x 6" canvas
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Gorgeous layering. :) Love it!
ReplyDeletewhat yummy layers and texture and colors-love em! Happy PPF!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colors, Debbie. And what a marvelous technique I have gleaned from your post today.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful collages, lovely palette!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work, love the layer and colours. I think I will have a go at your processes, so thank you.
ReplyDeleteWow great process, beautiful and interesting artwork!! Love it!
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gorgeous layering.Happy PPF, Annette x
ReplyDeleteDebbie, great teamwork with your son and really like the way you took advantage of shapes that appeared in the process :) Happy PPF!
ReplyDeletePure awesomeness! Love the collaberative paper making and what a lovely result. Happy PPF
ReplyDeleteThese are neat...love the layers and texture. Happy PPF!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool thing to do with your son, and it sounds like he taught you, double cool!
ReplyDeleteI love that face, glad you spotted it, and the leaf is lovely too. fun stuff. HPPF!
Great use of texture! It gives it a special mood. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, these are all gorgeous. My favorite is the last one. I guess I just have a thing for leaves... :) Happy PPF!
ReplyDeletebeautiful mixed media work, I love the colours!
ReplyDeletethese are amazing! I especially love the face!
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How lucky you are to be able to share creativity with your son in that way to create such beautiful art
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful pages - I love the texture you have created x
ReplyDeleteOh, that sounds like a lot of fun! These canvases are amazing. LOVE the face!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work, especially the portrait! Now I think I will go soak a few sheets of watercolor paper and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteI like the organic forms of the first one and the textures and colours of all them. Great techniques!
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous! What fun experimenting!
ReplyDeletewow I love love love these! Such a great process and results. I've painted with tea, coffee and berries before and really liked how things turned out.
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