Paper Fabric I

The PVA was fine! Experiment was a success!

Papers used: a 20-year-old crappy historical "romance" novel, shown here unpainted, and a road map of Vermont, painted blue. I skipped the tissue paper step on the blue and unpainted pieces because the tissue paper shredded into little balls when I painted the reddish piece.

I'm not sure if the pages of the novel will continue to yellow, and they're very readable. The tissue paper didn't blur the text of the red, but the acrylic sure did.

The pages are very flexible, too. If I crumpled them into a ball they might stay crumpled, and I might have to poke a few needle holes to attach sequins, but they're about as slick and plastic as polyester satin.

I need some more paint colors.

And some more sources of free paper with appropriate lines and text. I don't get any disposable magazines, waste paper at work might have confidential info on it...if only I'd saved all that algebra homework 20 years ago!!


I don't know what I'll do with these. Maybe nothing