Tissue Paper Painting Tutorial

Had so much fun during the process of making this painting, thought I’d share!

Preparing the Surface

• Start with a DIY Masonite Panel (or any hard surface) & stack of old leftover book pages (or any paper good for collaging).
• Mod Podge pages to the board – in a pattern or not, just cover the whole thing. Use the mod podge as a glue, putting it directly on the board then smoothing the pages over the top.
• Paint the board with white acrylic – use a big brush and not a lot of paint. You don’t want to cover the whole thing so the texture and color of the book pages come through.
• Once the paint is dry use your handy putty knife to scrape at it a while to give it a warn look. Don’t be afraid to dig into the pages and tear up small edges and corners.
• Paint over it again with the white acrylic if you’d like.
• Then you have a wonderful texture-y surface to draw or paint on!

Painting with Tissue Paper

• Sketch out the elephant or whatever shape/animal you’d like.
• Find a sheet of tissue paper that will cover the whole shape you want to fill in.
• Fill in the shape with a gluestick, it doesn’t have to be exact but it’s better to be a little out of the lines than inside.
• Carefully smooth the tissue paper over the glue’d areas – using a tissue works well for smoothing.
• Once it’s all covered and dry cut around the shape with an exacto and remove the extra tissue.
• At that point I drew over the elephant again with a dark pencil line but do whatchya want!

I made a smaller version on paper with a cute little elephant stamp I found at Jo-Ann’s too!

Posted by Amanda+ in art, tutorials on April 6, 2011
Tags: art, crafts, tissue paper, tutorials