Making Collage Papers - Embellishments

When I have a good amount of papers that I've pulled from the Gelli plate or painted on junk mail or book pages, I sort them into Warm, Cool and Neutrals. Sometimes I find these papers are a bit boring or aren't really worth even a corner of the paper as they are.

Example:

Not much there I can use as it is. These kind of papers are put into a folder and I'll add something to it in acrylics at some point. 

Once the folder starts getting thick from papers, I sort them. I decide if I want to keep them as they are or paint on them.

Keeping this as it is. Even though it's muddy and a bit dark, I love the squares I did while the paint was still wet using the tip side of a paint brush.

Paint will go on this one. This was a test to see how many colors I could get by using a limited palette.

 

Most will get some kind of embellishments. I do love to grab a brush and some black paint the most and just mindless draw circles or brush strokes to it.

Love these!

 

There is a lot of prep work that goes into creating these papers. I really do enjoy taking part of the day and pulling out the future artwork to see what I can use to make a collage.
 

Enjoy the journey.

Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

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