Fun With Tissue Paper
Tissue Paper Garden
Tissue paper, Green Ink #171, crappy merge job
I don’t know about you, but I like to keep notes about my art supplies; what I like, where I bought something unusual, etc. Currently, that information resides in several different notebooks, and I want them all in one place. I decided a new book was in order, but I didn’t want something that was going to be confused with my “art” sketchbooks.
Blick was having a close-out on a leather bound sketchbook that looked promising. I don’t usually consider leather bound blank books to be useful for drawing because they usually won’t lay flat. I wasn’t planning to use it for artwork, so the binding wasn’t an issue. I ordered it, and much to my surprise, it has stitched signatures that allow it to lay flat! I think I got the last one that Blick had, as they are no longer listed. However, it can still be purchased at The Fine Art Store for a couple dollars more than I paid for a close-out item.
The tissue paper art was done just for fun on a double page spread. I used an UHU Glue stick, which is non toxic and acid free, to glue the tissue paper. It didn’t soak through the tissue, and I’ve had no problems with my pages sticking together! The flowers are in the front of the book, but you can’t very well have decorative pages in the front of a book without having them in the back, can you?
Tissue Paper Dancers
Tissue Paper, ink & watercolor pens
For this one, I made a cardboard pattern to cut the fancy dresses. The ruffles were straight strips of paper folded and glued onto the dresses before gluing the dresses into the book. The dancer silhouettes and confetti background were drawn in after the glue job with Faber-Castell Ink pens, and a Tombow Lilac #620 watercolor pen.
Recording information isn’t much fun, but this will be a fun book to use!
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I love these little dancers. The green one is my favorite.
Thanks Bill! These were fun to make, and I definitely learned that when working with tissue paper, patience is a virtue.
I have always loved this medium and will probably do some soon. I may finally have enough of the patience required. I hope.