Art on Torn Paper Line Drawing on Torn Paper

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Today we have a guest mail fromOksana Tepp.  I plant her blog through the linky list and cruel in beloved with her torn paper tree collages.  I asked her to write upward a tutorial and she was kind enough to oblige!  Enjoy!

Torn Telephone Volume Pages
Painted Collage Tutorial

Torn paper collage technique is non a new invention. It is a well known method of using torn bits of variety of papers to fill in shapes, to add texture and color to backgrounds. Torn paper technique is popular in scrapbooking, card making craft, and fine art work.

Today I will share the procedure of making a painted mixed-media collage for the art journal folio using torn phone book pages for creating whimsical copse, which may look quite realistic on the painted landscape background.

First time I made an fine art journal folio with torn telephone book pages merely equally an experiment. I used those papers in my previous art projection as a protective cover for my working surface and had different acrylic paints, alcohol inks, and UTEE random marks all over the pages. All acrylic colors are from the counterbalanced color palette I used for 1 of my paintings. I merely didn't desire to discard those papers. Pocket-size font, tight rows of printed words, and grayish color of the paper made me retrieve about aspen and birch tree bark. I did not intendance about non-archival quality of the phone volume pages. My art periodical is a junk journal, where I have magazine clippings, newspaper prints, junk mail, old book pages, music sheets, greeting cards, etc. This is the outcome of my offset experimental collage. I did non document the process pace-past-step. Background is painted with acrylics on solid dark red cardstock.

At present, afterward learning some tricks for this method, I will depict in details how to create a painterly looking mixed-media collage for your art journal page.

There are iii main steps for this type of painted collage:

Step ane. Create your background.

Step 2. Sketch the layout of the tree/trees and collage the tree shapes, applying torn phone book pages.

Step iii. Add details, finishing touches.

Step 4 (optional). Embrace your finished collage with the sealer, add journaling.

Every pace of this process can be done in diverseness of means. I will give you demonstration first showing my next fine art periodical folio "Vivid Sunshine."

Materials used:

• Ruby-red cardstock for the base/page itself (pages in my art journal are about 8in x 10.5in).
• Variety of stamps and stencils for the groundwork.
• Acrylic paints of your choice. For this project Soft Body Liquitex acrylics were used.
• Charcoal for sketching.
• Big and small paint brushes, sponges (for stenciling).
• Painted and clean telephone book pages.
• Liquitex Matte Medium as an adhesive and a sealer.
• Krylon Matte Finish spray as a final sealer.

 Step 1. Background

Random stamps and stencils with acrylic paint are used to add blueprint to the solid crimson cardstock.

Bright yellowish acrylic paint with the larger brush is applied to the top and bottom of the page to define the sky and foreground for the future landscape. Such vivid colors of the background create a perfect properties for the grayish tree trunks.

Step 2. The Copse

Using pencil, marker, crayon, or charcoal (I used charcoal) sketch roughly the shapes of the copse.

Choose your phone book pages. Some may exist used, unaltered, some painted.

Start tearing your collage paper, making bigger and smaller pieces, depending on the width of the tree trunks and branches. Exit some pieces for later custom tearing for the tight and tiny spots or specific shapes of your tree branches.

Get fix for the fun part: collage itself. Collect all needed tools and materials for this step.

To fill up in the shapes of the trees try to follow your sketch lines on both sides (left and right). It's easier to create the contour of the tree, and fill in the heart part after. If you take painted your collage papers, effort to apply darker colored $.25 on the lesser and shaded areas of the trees.

I knew that charcoal will be smeared a little with the matte medium. This effect volition work well for the desired look: distant foggy wood surface area in the background. If you would like to avoid that consequence do not use charcoal for sketching.

Continue filling in the shapes of the trees. You can make every bit many layers as you lot want until you satisfied with the collage. Let it dry. Matte Medium dries relatively fast, just the time will depend on the thickness of your collage (you can create a visible dimensional texture) and the conditions of your working infinite. I left my page to dry for ii hours.

Footstep three. Finishing Touches

Afterward the collage is fully dried, the journal folio lays flat again and is ready for the finishing touches. Smaller branches of the copse and distant trees are painted with burnt umber acrylic paint. Highlights are added with white paint (diluted for transparency).

More distant trees, foreground bushes and grasses, and some small details to the tree trunks are added.

I decided to add protective matte terminate and sprayed the finished page with Krylon Matte finish. It dried almost instantly.

I actually enjoyed the process of creating this painted collage and decided to try using the same technique for bigger fine art work on unlike surfaces and with different mediums.

For the painting on canvass, "Long Day is Over," I have called acrylics, then information technology was almost the same materials and steps used as described above for the art periodical page. This time I fabricated certain that collaged papers are well embedded in acrylic medium, which makes the finished painting archival. Hither are the steps:

The finished mixed-media painting "Long Mean solar day is Over" is 11in x14 in on cotton stretched canvass and is available in my Etsy shop.

Painted Mixed-Media Collage
on Watercolor Background

I would like to prove how the torn paper collage technique works on a watercolor background.

First I painted sunset scenery with watercolors as the background on Strathmore 140lb cold printing watercolor paper (11in ten 15 in).

The trees' shapes are sketched with graphite pencil and painted with Titan Vitrify fluid acrylic. This acrylic paint layer will be insulating the watercolor paper from the collage paper.

Liquitex Super Heavy Gel was used every bit an adhesive and a sealer for collaging. Torn paper is well covered with the acrylic medium, and the archival quality is non an consequence anymore.

Details on the tree trunks are added with acrylics.

Finished mixed-media painting "Watching Dusk" is available in my Etsy store.

One more example of the same torn paper collage technique: mixed-media acrylic painting on cotton console "Stillness" (11in x 14in).  Torn painted telephone book pages are used for the aspen trees and torn "crackled" paint fries are used for collaging the Ponderosa trees.

This painting is also available in my Etsy shop.

Every bit you come across, the torn paper collage is quite a versatile technique and a good creative do. It tin can be used with unlike materials and mediums. I purposefully focused my tutorial on creating mixed-media collages with the tree images. Whatever paper bits tin can be used for this technique.

Fine art journaling does not require expensive art supplies and more frequently non-archival materials tin can be used for the art journal pages.  Collage fine art is a expert mode to repurpose otherwise unwanted papers. It's most impossible to repeat exactly the same collage twice: every next collage will be unlike and unique.

Well-nigh Oksana:

Oksana Tepp was born in Ukraine in 1969, and grew up in Soviet Union fourth dimension. Finished Pedagogical State Academy and became a Teacher of Russian Language and Literatures.

In 2003 Oksana moved to USA, worked as an Interpreter and a Russian Linguistic communication Instructor at EWU (Cheney, WA).

Fine art and variety of crafts were always a part of daily life for Oksana. During Soviet Union fourth dimension she was studying fine art and crafts for 10 years at the secondary school, where avant-garde fine art curriculum was provided. Later Oksana continued practicing art and crafts, and she considers herself a self-taught creative person. Since 2010 Oksana is a full time mixed-media artist, working from her home art studio.

Oksana is happily married, and she is the Mother of three sons.

• Fine art blog: Artfully Imperfect
• Original art is bachelor from my newly opened online Etsy shop: Artfully Imperfect.

Here is this calendar week'south linky list:

Art Journal Every Mean solar day: Torn Newspaper Collage Tutorial

If you're new to Art Journal Every Twenty-four hours, there is a curt introduction hither.  All of the previous posts tin be found archived here.  There is a flickr grouping for sharing right here.  Remember, it's just ten minutes of nourishing your creative self every day!  No need to finish anything or fifty-fifty like it.  If you lot've done some fine art journaling this calendar week and yous've blogged about it, or put it on flickr, please leave a link in the linky list at the cease of this mail service.  Cheers!

Today we take a guest mail fromOksana Tepp.  I found her blog through the linky listing and fell in beloved with her torn paper tree collages.  I asked her to write upward a tutorial and she was kind enough to oblige!  Enjoy!

Torn Telephone Volume Pages
Painted Collage Tutorial

Torn newspaper collage technique is non a new invention. It is a well known method of using torn bits of variety of papers to fill up in shapes, to add texture and color to backgrounds. Torn paper technique is popular in scrapbooking, card making craft, and fine art work.

Today I will share the procedure of making a painted mixed-media collage for the fine art journal page using torn phone volume pages for creating whimsical copse, which may await quite realistic on the painted landscape background.

Outset time I fabricated an art periodical folio with torn telephone book pages simply as an experiment. I used those papers in my previous art project as a protective comprehend for my working surface and had unlike acrylic paints, alcohol inks, and UTEE random marks all over the pages. All acrylic colors are from the balanced color palette I used for one of my paintings. I just didn't want to discard those papers. Pocket-sized font, tight rows of printed words, and grayish color of the paper made me retrieve most aspen and birch tree bark. I did not care about not-archival quality of the telephone volume pages. My art journal is a junk journal, where I accept magazine clippings, paper prints, junk postal service, old volume pages, music sheets, greeting cards, etc. This is the result of my starting time experimental collage. I did not document the procedure step-past-step. Background is painted with acrylics on solid night red cardstock.

Now, after learning some tricks for this method, I will draw in details how to create a painterly looking mixed-media collage for your art journal page.

At that place are 3 principal steps for this type of painted collage:

Pace 1. Create your background.

Step 2. Sketch the layout of the tree/copse and collage the tree shapes, applying torn telephone volume pages.

Footstep 3. Add together details, finishing touches.

Step 4 (optional). Cover your finished collage with the sealer, add together journaling.

Every step of this process can be washed in diverseness of ways. I will give you demonstration commencement showing my adjacent art journal folio "Vivid Sunshine."

Materials used:

• Scarlet cardstock for the base/page itself (pages in my art journal are about 8in x 10.5in).
• Variety of stamps and stencils for the background.
• Acrylic paints of your choice. For this project Soft Body Liquitex acrylics were used.
• Charcoal for sketching.
• Big and small paint brushes, sponges (for stenciling).
• Painted and clean phone book pages.
• Liquitex Matte Medium as an adhesive and a sealer.
• Krylon Matte End spray every bit a last sealer.

 Step 1. Groundwork

Random stamps and stencils with acrylic pigment are used to add blueprint to the solid red cardstock.

Vivid yellow acrylic paint with the larger brush is applied to the pinnacle and lesser of the page to define the sky and foreground for the future mural. Such brilliant colors of the background create a perfect backdrop for the grayish tree trunks.

Step 2. The Trees

Using pencil, marker, crayon, or charcoal (I used charcoal) sketch roughly the shapes of the copse.

Choose your telephone book pages. Some may exist used, unaltered, some painted.

Showtime tearing your collage paper, making bigger and smaller pieces, depending on the width of the tree trunks and branches. Leave some pieces for later custom tearing for the tight and tiny spots or specific shapes of your tree branches.

Go gear up for the fun role: collage itself. Collect all needed tools and materials for this pace.

To fill up in the shapes of the trees endeavour to follow your sketch lines on both sides (left and correct). It's easier to create the contour of the tree, and fill in the middle part after. If you take painted your collage papers, effort to use darker colored bits on the bottom and shaded areas of the copse.

I knew that charcoal volition be smeared a little with the matte medium. This effect will piece of work well for the desired look: distant foggy forest area in the background. If you would similar to avoid that consequence do not use charcoal for sketching.

Go along filling in the shapes of the trees. You can make as many layers as you desire until you satisfied with the collage. Let it dry. Matte Medium dries relatively fast, but the fourth dimension will depend on the thickness of your collage (you can create a visible dimensional texture) and the conditions of your working space. I left my page to dry out for 2 hours.

Step 3. Finishing Touches

Later on the collage is fully dried, the periodical page lays flat again and is set for the finishing touches. Smaller branches of the copse and afar copse are painted with burnt umber acrylic paint. Highlights are added with white paint (diluted for transparency).

More afar copse, foreground bushes and grasses, and some small details to the tree trunks are added.

I decided to add protective matte finish and sprayed the finished page with Krylon Matte finish. Information technology dried almost instantly.

I actually enjoyed the process of creating this painted collage and decided to try using the same technique for bigger art work on unlike surfaces and with different mediums.

For the painting on canvass, "Long Mean solar day is Over," I have chosen acrylics, so it was about the same materials and steps used as described above for the art journal page. This time I made certain that collaged papers are well embedded in acrylic medium, which makes the finished painting archival. Here are the steps:

The finished mixed-media painting "Long 24-hour interval is Over" is 11in x14 in on cotton stretched canvas and is bachelor in my Etsy shop.

Painted Mixed-Media Collage
on Watercolor Background

I would like to show how the torn paper collage technique works on a watercolor background.

Starting time I painted sunset scenery with watercolors every bit the groundwork on Strathmore 140lb cold press watercolor newspaper (11in ten xv in).

The trees' shapes are sketched with graphite pencil and painted with Titan Buff fluid acrylic. This acrylic paint layer will be insulating the watercolor newspaper from the collage paper.

Liquitex Super Heavy Gel was used as an agglutinative and a sealer for collaging. Torn paper is well covered with the acrylic medium, and the archival quality is not an effect anymore.

Details on the tree trunks are added with acrylics.

Finished mixed-media painting "Watching Dusk" is available in my Etsy store.

One more than case of the aforementioned torn paper collage technique: mixed-media acrylic painting on cotton fiber panel "Stillness" (11in x 14in).  Torn painted telephone volume pages are used for the aspen copse and torn "crackled" paint chips are used for collaging the Ponderosa trees.

This painting is besides available in my Etsy shop.

As you see, the torn newspaper collage is quite a versatile technique and a practiced creative exercise. Information technology can exist used with different materials and mediums. I purposefully focused my tutorial on creating mixed-media collages with the tree images. Any paper bits tin be used for this technique.

Art journaling does non crave expensive fine art supplies and more ofttimes non-archival materials can exist used for the art journal pages.  Collage fine art is a good way to repurpose otherwise unwanted papers. It's almost impossible to repeat exactly the same collage twice: every side by side collage volition be different and unique.

Most Oksana:

Oksana Tepp was born in Ukraine in 1969, and grew up in Soviet Marriage time. Finished Pedagogical State University and became a Teacher of Russian Language and Literatures.

In 2003 Oksana moved to U.s., worked equally an Interpreter and a Russian Language Teacher at EWU (Cheney, WA).

Fine art and variety of crafts were always a part of daily life for Oksana. During Soviet Union time she was studying art and crafts for 10 years at the secondary school, where advanced fine art curriculum was provided. Subsequently Oksana continued practicing art and crafts, and she considers herself a self-taught artist. Since 2010 Oksana is a full time mixed-media artist, working from her home art studio.

Oksana is happily married, and she is the Female parent of iii sons.

• Art weblog: Artfully Imperfect
• Original fine art is available from my newly opened online Etsy shop: Artfully Imperfect.

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