2015 | Day 36

Day Thirty-Six

Tonight I added more of the very old, flower pattern tissue-y Japanese paper to the other two middle mountains.  I found some detail in Tower #1 and re-worked Tower #2 and cut a piece of textured paper for it.  I outlined the mountains (4) and towers (2).  I think I will probably need to add more white Unryu paper for the "snow" on the mountains, but not yet.  The big blue fluffy biteyou guy still needs a face...and it is possible it could turn out that he isn't a biteyou after all.

My starting point tonight...the three middle mountains.

Look -- tonight you can actually see the flower patterns (pink, blue, white) on the three middle mountains.

A slightly longer shot.

An even slightly longer shot than that.

Tower #1 showed me some details.

Tower #2 needed a whole new piece of nice textured paper.

That's better.

Can you see the texture/inclusions/pattern?

Tower #1's details inked in.

Overall, it is starting to look a little better.

I am not sure how much detail the towers will get...I don't want to distract too much from the big blue fluffy guy.  I am going to need to give the mountains and towers a little more definition, though.  I think there might also be some pink clouds on the way...maybe.

2015 | Day 35

Day Thirty-Five

Tonight I made tracing paper patterns of the mountains (and towers) behind the big blue fluffly biteyou.  I think I want to try to add thin, transparent papers to pull them out of their background a bit.  I tried using a very old, very tissue-y Japanese paper from an old samples book that has a blue sort of flower pattern on it.  I taped the tissue-y paper to the back of the tracing paper cut out of mountain #3 and cut out the shape as best as I could.  I glued that to the canvas with a glue stick and then I sprayed it with a matte fixative...hoping it wouldn't melt the tissue-y paper.  I wanted to pre-protect it from the matte medium that I will cover all of the paper add-ons with.  I can always change it later if it really turns out badly...but so far, so good.

Tonight's starting point.

The tracing paper cut outs of mountains and towers.

The really old Japanese tissue-y paper with the blue flower pattern.

The tissue-y paper cut out.

How it turned out -- for now.

I tried to take a longer shot of the collage but my camera can't focus on the flower pattern even though I can see it.