TEXTURED TREE

A FUN EXPERIMENT!

Done with Gesso, Tissue Paper, Watercolor & Acrylic.

 

For anyone who might be interested, this is the technique.

 

 

I used a heavy backing board from a sketch pad.

 

I Gessoed it completely using a palette knife to spread it thin but cover well.

 

I tore pieces of white tissue paper and applied it using more gesso as the glue, with an old stiff brush.(Keep brush wet and rinse occasionally).

 

Let the pieces form wrinkles and bumps...you are going for texture, but make sure there are no air pockets under the tissue. You can make the ridges and grooves as thick or thin as you desire.

 

Let it dry completely.

 

Now you can draw on it and/or just freely apply any medium.

Quite different than painting on paper however...:)

Done