I had quite a good time today with the experiments that I did, actually producing quite nice results that I am happy with.
I led on from the work I did yesterday with outlines and skeletons, but I added the collage element into it to give it a more interesting background. I was able to use black paint then because the detail and colour of the backing paper stood out enough so black was a good contrast colour over the top. I particularly like the use of the old book paper, the colour of it is great and the writing is so small that it does look more like a pattern.
While using paint on the leaf skeletons to add colour, i thought about how bleach removes colour, and managed to get quite an interesting print of it here removing the colour of the tissue paper, as well as adding as a resist when watercolour was added over the top of it. The batik was fun to experiment with, and I got quite a nice clear image from it using the wax, I wonder if there is a way to mix these two techniques and take things further maybe with both of them.
The first image shows playing with wet paint and clingfilm which did create some nice results, this is similar to what i did using the leaves yesterday to create a resist-ish technique to capture the lines and shape as it dries. Again I think this could work combined with batik or something, but I may need to find a harsher way of making the impressions into the paint.
Tahlia Paige 