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Backgrounds with crêpe de chine and bleeding art tissue
Be carefull, spots on carpet or clothes come out difficult or not at all!
We use the fact that these papers release their colors easy when wetted to make these backgrounds.
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| artist: Gerti | artist: Heidi de Kok | artist: Heidi de Kok |
What you need:
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white of light colored drawing paper of aquarel paper (watercolor paper) |
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several colors bleeding art tissue also called "tissue paper" |
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several colors crêpe de chine also called "crepe paper" |
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a waterspray |
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something to work on like a plastic tray or a fat layer of old newspaper |
How to go about:
Prepare your workspace and put on clothes that you do not mind getting spots on.
Put your drawing or aquarel paper on the tray or newspaper.
It is best to leave a space of an inch free on the sides in case of spots.
Wet your paper with water from your spray and give it a bit time to absorb the water. It will curl a little but will sink back after the water is in the paper.
You may also wet both sides, that way it will curl less.
Now drop little pieces (about a square inch) of several colors on the wet paper. If needed add some more water.
See the colors leave the original papers. The wetter you work the easier the colors transfer.
Let your peper dry. You could use a heattool to speed up the drying, but than you will get watercircels.
After the papers dry, the bleeding art tissue will let go by itself already, the crepe the chine you have to peel of, its stays wet longer.
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Crêpe de chine |
bleeding art tissue
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Crêpe de chine works a little different than the bleeding art tissue. With crêpe de chine it doesn't make much difference whether you work on wetted paper or wet it after you placed the crêpe on the aquarel paper. It will release its color easily, but if you work very wet, there is so much color released that you won't see the typical crêpe structure in your background. If your background is kind of dull, you can do 2 things; add another color crepe in the dull area, or you can hold the paper from which you have removed the crepe, but is still wet vertical so that little creeks of color flow over the dull area making it more interesting.
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Always work on pre wetted paper! Because of the one smooth side of this type of paper the water stays on the paper and color only escapes on the edges. If you let it dry and the bleeding art tissue scraps come of the underground you find the underground white under the scraps. It could be what you want, but I did not like it. Instead you could try wetting the paper just a bit, so drops of water are on your underground, than drop the bleeding art tissue scraps, and wet everything again. You wil find that the drops of water take on color but stay colored drops under the scraps, and between the scraps colors interfere with oneother. That was I think a more interesting background.
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Some last pointers
*It is from importance how wet/dry you work for the result.
Begin with as little water as possible and see what the colors do. You can always add water.
The light colors give little color.
*Try different type of paper for the background and try a a different color underneath for a change.
Choose a light color and combine with the colors of the crêpe or blotting paper.
Some colors turn ugly. Try on a scrap of paper first.
Wait for the paper to dry completely before you stamp on it.
