Friday, September 7, 2007
Paste Paper Part 2
Today I took some of my original papers to my local repro shop and came out empty handed. I was surprised to find out that the color copy machine couldn't come close to duplicating the original colors. This was a disappointment, but life goes on. I'll work with them on my computer and my own printer. Just thought that the color copies woud make it easier and cheaper. Wrong again.........
Monday, September 3, 2007
Paste Paper
I decided to take this week and really concentrate on ART projects.
A couple of years ago I purchased a book kit and some papers at Artfest in Port Townsend. I subsequently used the book kit to make the guest book for my niece's wedding. It was a fun project filled with love and expectancy for a wonderful wedding and marriage for Kara and Joshua.
However, what really caught me was the papers that were included in the kit. I purchased an additional pack of papers so I would have extras to choose from when making the book project. Every time I looked at the papers I wondered how the artist did them. Then, one day not too long ago I came across an article on "paste paper".
The original article gave instructions using a concoction of corn starch, glycerine and acrylic paints. After more research I found another recipe using Wallpaper paste.. Because the cornstarch recipe calls for starting a slurry the night before and that didn't happen, today's project was done with the wallpaper paste method. Also, because this was my first time out I decided to go with a limited pallet of just 4 colors.
The recipe called for 3 cups of warm water and one and one half tablespoons of wallpaper paste. I don't know if it was because I didn't use the exact brand as in the original article or if it is just luck how it comes out, but I ended up needing more like 4 tablespoons of the paste powder. Once it finally thickened up to a good consistency (just beyond heavy cream) I separated it into 4 containers and to each one I added acrylic paint. At one time in my life I thought I wanted to be a painter and so I have lots of tubes of acrylic paint. I used only green, blue, yellow, and "shiny" copper.
I tried several ways of applying the paint and spreading it around. I found the way that worked best for me was to glob and drizzle the paint on to one paper and then press another piece of paper on to that, thus creating two similar but quite different pages at the same time.
I finished about 3 hours ago and the pages are not yet dry, but I'm quite happy with the outcome. As with any project of this type, I have my favorites. I plan to take those to my local reproduction shop and have color copies made. This way, I can use them over and over.
I just scanned a few pages and much to my delight, I can change the colors. This adds alot of possibilities.
Some of the pages will be wonderful for book covers, while others will be more appropriate for end pages.
Today was a good ART day.
A couple of years ago I purchased a book kit and some papers at Artfest in Port Townsend. I subsequently used the book kit to make the guest book for my niece's wedding. It was a fun project filled with love and expectancy for a wonderful wedding and marriage for Kara and Joshua.
However, what really caught me was the papers that were included in the kit. I purchased an additional pack of papers so I would have extras to choose from when making the book project. Every time I looked at the papers I wondered how the artist did them. Then, one day not too long ago I came across an article on "paste paper".
The original article gave instructions using a concoction of corn starch, glycerine and acrylic paints. After more research I found another recipe using Wallpaper paste.. Because the cornstarch recipe calls for starting a slurry the night before and that didn't happen, today's project was done with the wallpaper paste method. Also, because this was my first time out I decided to go with a limited pallet of just 4 colors.
The recipe called for 3 cups of warm water and one and one half tablespoons of wallpaper paste. I don't know if it was because I didn't use the exact brand as in the original article or if it is just luck how it comes out, but I ended up needing more like 4 tablespoons of the paste powder. Once it finally thickened up to a good consistency (just beyond heavy cream) I separated it into 4 containers and to each one I added acrylic paint. At one time in my life I thought I wanted to be a painter and so I have lots of tubes of acrylic paint. I used only green, blue, yellow, and "shiny" copper.
I tried several ways of applying the paint and spreading it around. I found the way that worked best for me was to glob and drizzle the paint on to one paper and then press another piece of paper on to that, thus creating two similar but quite different pages at the same time.
I finished about 3 hours ago and the pages are not yet dry, but I'm quite happy with the outcome. As with any project of this type, I have my favorites. I plan to take those to my local reproduction shop and have color copies made. This way, I can use them over and over.
I just scanned a few pages and much to my delight, I can change the colors. This adds alot of possibilities.
Some of the pages will be wonderful for book covers, while others will be more appropriate for end pages.
Today was a good ART day.
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