toilet paper as an art medium
Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places…no, I wasn’t sitting on the loo thinking about art; I spotted the toilet paper ATC swap on SwapBot (did I mention I’m addicted to that place) and decided to give it a go.
toilet paper, wire, watercolour paints, pva glue
Here’s what I did:
Painted the background with black watercolour paint and let it dry, rolled toilet paper around a piece of wire and coloured it with watercolours (mainly red), curved the wire and glued it to the background. I then wet sheets of toilet paper and pushed them down over the wire, painted then while they were wet with watercolours and spread PVA glue liberally over the top. I painted more layers of glue over the top when that was dry to give them a sheen and to seal the toilet paper.
I think they look ok. I think the colours are a bit bright for my liking and the medium isn’t one I’ll be using again in a hurry, but I’m pretty pleased with the finish.
These have all been mailed to America today.
30 July, 2009 7:18 pm 
