Altered Silver

While I was busy making more layer-painted papers, I also continued adding to the APoH book as much as the paint would allow (depending on whether it was wet or dry). The spreads of the book are initially receiving simple swipes and splashes of colors from the project's palette, in different combinations and appearances. It was convenient to get a few more spreads painted while I had all the colors out for the papers.

 

Most of the book hasn't been touched by paint as yet, so it will be some while before this project moves into the next stage. And that's a good thing because at this time, I have no idea what the next stage is going to be!

I knew I would need more than the four layer-painted papers I'd already made so I caught another afternoon to make an additional quartet. And this time, I took a moment to snap a photo each time I paused to allow paint to dry. The photos don't have the best focus, but they should be clear enough to see how cool the changes are as the papers morph along through the stages of the process.

This group of four (only two shown) 8.5 x 11" papers began as bright pink cardstock. Using a sponge, paint was applied in the colors of this project's palette (wine, gray, taupe, yellow, blue and black), one hue at a time. When all traces of the cardstock were covered nicely, foam stamps were applied in a seemingly-random collection of shapes and symbols.

The result is this warm mixture of all the project's intermingled colors. Eventually, these papers are going to be made into some nifty tags and other stuff to go into the APoH book.



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One of my current altered book projects has only one stage in motion: to initially paint spreads in various ways using a limited palette of six hues. Nothing else will be happening with that book until the pages are all painted, but thinking ahead, I anticipate that I might want to add some tags or whatnot into the pages, and if so, they too should be developed with the same palette.

So I had myself a good afternoon of making what I call layer-painted paper. I began by sponging multiple layers of paint onto four 8.5x11" sheets of cardstock until all the hues played nicely together. Then I covered most of the paint with stamping designs, layering those as well. With both sponge and stamps, each color was allowed to dry before the next color was added.

After photographing the papers in a group, I scanned them individually. Then I prepared four sets to print out in ATC size, after some hue/saturation modifications. Thus, out of the four layer-painted papers emerged sixteen ATC backgrounds. The cards were decorated with cut-and-painted strips of drywall tape (using the paint to adhere the strips to the cards) and then topped off with found text.

 

That meant most of the backgrounds would remain exposed which was the intention. The more of the backgrounds that can be seen, the better! I find myself captivated by the intricacies of layer-painted papers and even set up one of the scans as my desktop wallpaper.

At some point, the layer-painted papers will become some kind of "things" to go into that book project. This ATC series was just a fun (and unexpected!) bonus.


(My ATCs are not available for trade at this time.)
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