Painting Tissue Results

Finished Tissue

Yesterday, I experimented with painting an entire sheet of tissue paper in order to use it for future projects. I was very pleased with the final result and only had one small tear in the paper that wouldn't affect the final projects. There are two issues to note: First, the paper changes texture once dried. It finishes with more of a crepe paper texture and is almost as stretchy but not quite. Second, the colors are a little muted once they are removed from the plastic panel (which is called Utrecht fluted poly pro clear, size 20 x 30 and is 4 mm thick). The reason for the muted color is that once removed from the panel, the color that is underneath the paper while drying reflects upward when painting. In essence, you are seeing twice the color when the paper is on the panel.

To get a closer look at the colors and color saturation, I scanned each quarter panel of the paper and have included it below:

Quarter 1

Quarter 2

Quarter 3

Quarter 4

For those that asked the five colors that I used were all Dr Ph Martin Watercolor Concentrate and they were Color 1--Cyclamen (20B), Color 2--Alpine Rose (4A), Color 3--Sunrise Pink (46D), Color 4-Ice Yellow (40C), and Color 5--Daffodil Yellow (15B).

The final project

Here are the flowers that were produced with the painted tissue experiment. I used four layers of paper that were 5 inches (width) by 10 inches (length).

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