Papermaking part 7

After trying to find some papermaking artists, I found someone who did pulp painting and the piece I found was pulp in the shape of a fingerprint which I thought was a really cool idea. Unfortunately, I can't remember their name and I didn't save the picture. It was that piece of work which inspired me to do a lino cut of my (enlarged) thumbprint.

Anyway, back to the pulp painting. I actually only tried this out because I ran out of the blue pulp I was using so I made a sort of sandy coloured pulp and used it to make the paper look like a wave on the beach.

I think this worked really well and it lead me to try doing a bigger piece of "pulp painting" - I'm not sure if this is actually the way you're supposed to do this though.

I started with the blue pulp for the sky - I tried to make this a little bit lighter than the pulp I was going to make for the sea so that when the piece was dry, you could see the difference. I then made the green pulp (for the land), a darker blue (for the sea), and the sandy pulp (for the beach). After I was happy with the main piece, I made a brown/black pulp to do the group of caves.

I am really pleased with these results and would love to experiment more with this technique in the future.