Pink Peppered Paper

Here's some more peppered paper from my collection. I've used these, or very similar papers, for some of my illustration. The first pink background resulted from experimenting with screen printing. I find that pulling paint through a screen can be quite therapeutic, there's just something about the mechanical process that is very relaxing. I quickly discovered some beautiful textures by playing with the paint application on the screen itself. Hope I can experiment with more screen printing soon in Knoxville.

The second pink sample is painted tissue paper, salvaged from wrapping paper. I love the bouncing dots on the background. I use this paper quite a bit for my illustrations. I have painted lots of warm colors on sheets with the red dots, and cool colors on some of my blue dotted paper. Sometimes the tissue paper tears if I get too rambunctious with my strokes, but after the paint dries, the paper is much sturdier and easier to work with!

Last is some experimenting with gesso and rubbing alcohol on board. I like to use this technique for backgrounds sometimes, but find it can get too busy, unless I just have some simple images or doodles, which I still haven't gotten around to and it's the day after Valentine's Day!