Texture sketchbook

This sketchbook I focus on textures, using layers of paper, newspaper and tea leaves. Even candle wax poured directly onto the page created an interesting texture.

I used a layer of tea stain and let it dry, I then when it dried it created a ripples texture on the page, and then using several shades of green acrylic and a metallic gold acrylic and a dry brush to create texture. This helps show the textures of the paper.
For this one, I glued down ripped pieces of a map. and the bottom left is where I drew a map in fineliners, I used papier-mâché paste and newspaper to add texture, once dried I used green acrylic and a metallic gold acrylic on a dry brush to bring out the texture of the newspaper.

These pages have a base of tea stain, and then a brown candle wax that I poured it on the page in a circular motion, but the texture of the wax went too lumpy as it dried, and it went through onto the pages behind it.

These pages have prints on which I did using polystyrene plates, and used a pencil to create  the marks, one the one of the left I forgot that it has to be backwards, so the map of Burma is backwards, but the one on the right I remembered to write backwards, writing words from a newspaper article regarding the last days of Rangoon.

For these last pages, I used glue to glue tea leaves onto the page, on the left I rubbed the tea leaves in, and on the right, I just pressed them into the glue so you cant see the patterns of the glue, I then dripped wax onto to blend them and add more layers of texture.



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