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Imprinting a painted surface with lots of different materials is a fun and easy way to let liquids do their thing. As the paper dries, the materials touching your paper surface allow more pigment to pool in certain spots, leaving you with ghostly impressions of those items.
You can’t control the results perfectly, and that’s part of the charm of this technique. Spend a bit of time making background papers, and you’ll have hours worth of pieces to draw from when your next project strikes!
Materials & Tools:
Watercolor paper
Textured materials
Acrylics, cups, sponges
A place the papers can sit undisturbed while they dry
How beautiful, Cyndi! It looks like a lot of fun, too. Sometimes it’s nice to leave a few things to chance, isn’t it.
Hi Cyndi,
Wow! That is pretty awesome! I will definitely give this a shot. Thanks for the inspiration.
1125 days ago
[...] Blisstree Arts Unexpected results abound when you use this easy method to create background papers for your work. [...]
I followed the link to Mixed Media Artist for the directions and then looked around several other posts. What a bright and happy site! You make the projects sound so simple!!
That’s cool! It looks like sunprinting, but it’s not. Are those seeds you used? I’m going to try this for sure!