Hello again !
It's Painty Papers 2 time ! That made me giggle to type that.
In Painty Papers 1, I explained I am just beginning to play with some Mixed Media / Collage art. In things I have read or seen and in checking out youtube videos of what others are up too in this type of art, I found that lots of folks are making at least some of the colorful or interesting papers they are using in their art. While I am learning, I decided to make some painty papers of my own to use in later pieces or that is the tentative plan. Since I've painted for a long time, I already had lots of paint here and so I have begun to pull out papers and things that I have in my random art supplies to play in it a little.
It seems many Mixed Media artists use papery things of every kind. One thing I saw was where some of them taped off a larger piece of paper so there were multiple empty blocks on a larger page and then they painted them coordinated colors, but different designs. Taping them off allows freedom not to stay in the lines. Then they untaped them and they had lots of individual little paintings to use after they cut them apart.
It brought to mind that I may have some leftover business card printer paper and sure enough, I had a couple of sheets. I thought if I painted the whole sheet and then after it dried, I tore them apart on the serrated lines, I'd end up with mostly the same thing. This photo isn't that good, but you can kind of see the lines.
I started by dripping a few drops of two colors of paint and scraping them down the page with a little rubber scrapper I had in my paint tools.
Then I began rolling dots and dotting stencil designs on it here and there. Right now you may notice that you see some of the same designs in some of my papers and that is because I am using what I already have here, which wasn't many stencils and only a design roller or two, but I do have more coming, so I won't be repeating the same collection of designs all the time.
Can't wait to get more fun supplies!
After the paint got nearly dry, I gently folded the paper on the serrated lines and pulled them apart and this is what I ended up with. I didn't try to make the individual blocks different as I painted, I just painted the whole page randomly and how they came out individually was the surprise.
It was a pretty fun experiment and I was fairly pleased.
