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Saturday, December 17, 2011

guest post- create colorful, transparent textures on paper from Jane Davila

I have asked a few of my creative friends to help me out with my blog here and there during my time with a new baby and today's guest post comes to you from Jane Davila

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Mix fluid matte medium with acrylic paint and apply it to paper to create delicious transparent textures to use as backgrounds for collage and mixed-media art.
Ingredients:
Fluid matte medium (I used Golden brand but there are others)
acrylic paint
paint brush
container to mix paint and medium
heavy watercolor paper or bristol board
items to create texture - bubble wrap, combs, skewers, mesh, etc


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papers with brushed striations and slight texture
Directions:
1. Mix approx 2 parts of fluid matte medium to 1 part of acrylic paint. The more medium you add, the more transparent the result will be. Experiment to see what proportion will rock your socks!
2. Apply the paint/medium mixture to heavy paper with a paintbrush. I use a crummy, stiff old brush to get lots of lovely brushstrokes.
3. Immediately press items to the painted surface to lift up some of the fresh paint to create texture. Try bubble wrap, sponges, combs, leaves, anything with an interesting texture.


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rubber mesh texture
Hints:
If covering a large area, paint an approximate 6" x 6" or 8" x 8" section at a time and create the texture before moving on to another section so the paint doesn't dry before you get to it. Overlap sections slightly.
Add a very small amount of paint (drops) for a very pale transparent wash of texture.
Use just the old brush for striated texture.
Blend or layer two or more colors on top of each other.
Use more that one texture, overlapping or layering.
Use a small foam brayer to apply the paint/medium mixture if you don't want any brushstrokes.

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bubble wrap texture

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combed texture

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puppets made from stamped and textured papers

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ATC with brushed texture paper

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Yu (fish) paper collage

Davila mug
Jane Dávila is a fiber and mixed-media artist who began her professional art career as a printmaker. Jane has written two books with Elin Waterston, Art Quilt Workbook and Art Quilts at Play, plus Jane Davila’s Surface Design Essentials. She is also the editor of Quilting Arts In Stitches emagazine. Jane lives in southwestern Connecticut with her husband Carlos, an oil painter and sculptor, in a house full of light and art. See more of her work on her website at www.janedavila.com

8 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing this. I have just started playing with my gel medium to create different textures and painting surfaces. Now, thanks to this post, I have a lot more ideas.

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  2. Great ideas....Thanks to both you and Jane for all the fun!

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  3. Thank you, Jane, for sharing this technique. I love the look of the texture paper. I will buy this gel medium next time I'm at the art supply store.

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  4. wonderful and all the examples are awesome!

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  5. thnaks a lot for sharing with us.....I knew the technics but I had forgot and now, after reading your post, i have some ideas whose coming.....i think that I will play a little bit this afternoon...lol
    Carol

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  6. Amazing! Thanks for this post

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  7. That is amazing. I absolutely love it!

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  8. Thank you for sharing! I will have to try this! :-)

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