Tissue Paper Challenge
I have a hard time keeping up with art challenges, but I stopped in at just the right time for Michelle Ward’s monthly Street Team crusade focusing on the use of tissue paper as a texture/layer element.
I’ve used tissue paper before but not this way, so I really didn’t know what to expect. I used white gesso to coat some bright magenta tissue and some lighter weight brown. I then painted the tissues with yellow and gold acrylic and used rubber stamps with paint to imprint some designs and words. I also used some markers and pens on some “untreated” brown tissue. I tore the paper and layered it onto paper, canvas, and board using thinned white glue. This canvas was the result I liked the best. The glue added some sheen to the tissue, and while the markers bled, the pen lines did not (see upper left corner).
I didn’t have a plan for a composition. I was just experimenting. I decided this made a good playground for some of these little “helmet fish” I’ve been drawing lately. I drew the fish on some scrap paper and glued them down. After I finished, I decided the composition looked better upside down, so that’s how you’re seeing it.
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Comments
Comment from michelle ward
Time: March 13, 2010, 12:32 pm
marcia - thanks for coming to play! love the layers of painted tissue paper and the textures from the brush strokes and ripples. and i love that you ended up turning the piece upside down 
Comment from Imelda
Time: March 14, 2010, 12:47 am
The helmet fish are so cute. I like the echo upside down
Comment from Michelle Brown
Time: March 14, 2010, 4:52 am
Great piece - such bright colours. I like the way you have also included the stamping and text.
Comment from Julie Prichard
Time: March 14, 2010, 10:12 am
Your end result here makes me really happy..what a vibrant piece!
Comment from Marilyn Gallas
Time: March 15, 2010, 6:54 pm
For not having a composition in mind, this sure looks like you did. Love the fish. Very creative of you to decide it looked better upside down.
Comment from dawn
Time: March 15, 2010, 7:11 pm
wow! how cool is this page?! I love your little fish drawings, and all the delicious texture you created from the tissue paper
Comment from goudenregen
Time: March 18, 2010, 6:20 am
Love your work and the colors, the drawings of the fish are lovely and I like the layering over the text. Helen
Comment from Kimberly Mailhot
Time: March 19, 2010, 10:24 am
Love the colors here ! Beautiful tissue paper play. Thanks for sharing it. Cheers, Crusader !
Comment from Lay Hoon
Time: March 21, 2010, 6:34 pm
This page is pretty !!
Love the colours.
Comment from K Hutchinson
Time: March 31, 2010, 11:15 am
The textures on this are awesome ! I love your fish drawings! Very fun!
Comment from iHanna
Time: June 10, 2010, 7:52 am
It is June my dear, what are you doing? Being creative I hope, and well. Take care!
Comment from Cath
Time: August 29, 2010, 3:00 pm
Love this - I really am going to have to try the gesso on tissue technique - more play time - yippee!
Comment from iHanna
Time: March 13, 2010, 10:58 am
Yummy colors and a great collage with tissue papers but my favorite part are the fishes - soooo cute!