So, to finish up the peeled paper...here's where we left off...it has been more successful than the first horrible attempt, but still not really what I wanted, so I thought I'd have a bit more fun with this.
I dug out another old book, this one has rather thin pages since I wanted to have some depth, but I wanted it to be able to be wrinkled up. Tearing out some pages, I crumpled them and glued them to the painted paper leaving some of the background open.
When the glue was dry, I created the same layering with the paint and petroleum jelly, only this time the paint was very much thinned, and I just hit a few highlights with the petroleum jelly.
I mingled the layers of color a bit more though, not thoroughly covering the sheet with any one color. And, again, when dry, I wiped over the entire piece so that the paint released from where the petroleum jelly had been.
The happily unexpected "aging" I found was how lovely the old, thin, paper looked where it has absorbed the oil from the petroleum jelly. Once it was all finished, I pulled the tape from the sides, that's always the moment I feel like is the "great reveal", and this is what I found.And I am pleased.
Now let's hope it speaks to me about what it would like to be the background for.
3 comments:
Good Save! I bet this piece is really cool in person. The texture is lost in the picture. I wonder why you are not getting the effect you want with the paint peal technique.
LOL....oh, that's simple Carol...I'm not getting what I want from it because I want too much.
Great! Love the colors and detail.
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