Get your straws ready ! It's time to make some collage papers with bubbles. It's going to be fun AND messy ! GAR-UN-TEE ! 😄
IN last night''s edition of "As The Paper Turns" our star was BUBBLES !
Since my art desk isn't near a sink, I made up some dish soap bubble water in a pitcher so i could make up the colors at my desk without running back and forth.
I didn't make them all at once, but mixed as I decide what color to try next. I didn't use a formula and there may be a perfect one somewhere. I didn't research to find out, because I was being Veruca.... I WANT IT NOW! No time for research and doing everything right. LOL !
Soapy water and paint was all it took. Then blow bubbles with your straw and when they overflowed the cup, you swished them off onto some paper.
That sounds amazingly easy I know and it did to me too before I started, but those bubbles kind of wanted to stay on the cup or the straw or anything but drop to the paper.
(I had this yellow "thing" that was made to help you keep messes from going everywhere, like when you repot house plants or do crafty things and I thought it would be perfect because even though it is pliable, the corners snap so you get sides of a sort. In the end, because it had been folded, it wasn't completely flat where I needed to lay the papers and that did cause some of the water to move as it pooled. I'll need to come up with something solid to lay the papers on going forward to keep them as level as possible while painting them up)
I thought I was going to just slice and drop with one of my large palette knives, but.... no... then they just wanted to stick to that too, so we danced a bit... me and those bubbles.
That didn't stop it from being very fun and I laughed as I went along, in spite of myself.
It was pretty neat.
I added different colors together.
What a pile of bubbles !
I had several kinds of papers, the other half sheets from the ones I had cut to make the black and whites. Of course they reacted differently. Some held part of the bubble design much better than others.
I didn't mark the papers either, so in the end I didn't know which was which.
That just means, I'll be forced to play in them again and mark the papers in a corner before I start so I can figure out which ones hold the bubble shapes better.
Wah Wah.... no really, any reason to do it again is fine with me. I'd like to try some darker colors. In the cups the liquid didn't look so pastel.
Most of them did look like that after they dried. These were still a little damp when I took the photos last night and of course artificial light. The previous photo and the next were the rice paper, which is always easy to identify since they are so thin and show their fiber. They didn't want to keep a bubble shape at all, because they are so absorbent. They flowed all together, but it did make nice color where they crisscrossed.
I purposely added a little spatter on them in the open spaces.
On to more colors. Doesn't this look fun ?
I liked this one because it did hold some bubble shape. The shapes kind of looked like pizzelle cookies I thought
A little closer.
Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere. On some of the sheets the first color to go down seemed to show more bubble circles, but I didn't wait for them to dry to add more, so in the end, I thought the paper got too wet and the other colors just wanted to soak in.
When I play in them again later, I think I will try to do a few and let each color totally dry (ugh, a day between each layer) and see if the colors will hold better shape, while still overlapping.
This pile of bubbles photo fascinated me, as it looked like there was yellow net over the green/blue bubbles.
After I had used all the half sheets, I grabbed a whole sheet to play with, because I had lots of watery paint left and I was enjoying myself. I loaded it up and the colors ran together. There were also tiny pools of watery paint on the paper, so I lifted it up and let some of it do a little run around.
So much fun to see what comes out. Although most didn't act exactly like I pictured they would, the meshed colors were still mostly pretty. I liked how this lower right corner turned out. I'm not sure how that happened...LOL.... but it was pretty.
I also liked how this one and only bubble made a nearly perfect circle.
A photo of my desk when I was done playing for the evening showing my play area and the newly created papers drying behind.
This is how those papers looked while drying. It's a little hard to tell on the rice papers since the blue of the board below them is dark blue. The two in the top left are similar because when I went to pick the paper up after I bubbled it up, I found that there was two sheets there instead of one. The middle one was on top and the one on the top left was underneath
Now in natural late afternoon light. A bit more pastel looking especially on the rice papers, almost water colory. You know Jacey loves the BOLD though.... but maybe they'll still fit in somewhere down the line. I did wonder if some of these might need some stenciling on top. We'll see.
This was my fav last night.
But this one is not too bad.
...and this one was a little intersting.
Last night's pile of papers !
I know this was a bit long on photos, but I took SO many, it was hard to decide exactly which ones told the story best.
I wonder what I will do tonight... hmmmm
Hope you all had a good Wednesday. I did, right after work was over. LOL
