Marbling with Shaving Cream

I'll begin here since this was the last work I did for this class. The top one amazed me with it's brilliance. The next one, still nice but a bit more subdued. I think I did too much stirring and messed up the color balance. I thought this was a super fun!

Bubblewrap and More Bubblewrap

The acrylic attempt worked poorly under my art direction, probably because I don't use acrylics as often as watercolors. The top is acrylic on mixed media paper which I intended to do something bubble-wrappy. Dried too fast. Next try was painting acrylic on small bubble wrap, and that worked better, but I didn't like the stickiness. The lower bubblewrap pic was on multi-media paper, spritzed first then a few blobs of watercolor, and last, a layer of small bubbles. All of these seemed sorta blaugh though I could use them for collage paper.  Satisfied with the next one using painted bubblewrap placed on wet colors.

Above small bubblewrap on multi-media paper on which I added some marks.

The Perfect Storm -- Salt and Snow

More bright watercolors and small bits of bubblewrap. While doing this piece, I accidentally knocked over a new bottle of white liquid watercolor! The white was applied to the bubblewrap, rather heavily since the spill needed to be used. I like the way the white looks on this page even if the work zone got  messed up. Perfect piece for salt to land amidst the sopping white flow. It worked even on multi-media paper. Below is a close-up.

Done with Bubblewrap.

... or so I thought....

Then: The Revelation and Big Find!

Like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, I found a piece of big-bubble bubblewrap, grabbed it. Asked, "What if I used actual watercolor paper, spritzed and painted, then covered with big bubblewrap? 

Mind-blowing success! Unbelievable how much more happened on the watercolor paper! Magic with just lots of pigment and plain big bubblewrap.

 Since I was using mostly multi-media paper as I worked plastic wrap was also a fail. I'd like to try plastic wrap again on wet and bright watercolor to see if that improves the impact.

Thanks for lookin. Long  journey, lots of cool discoveries along the way.

Great class, Elisabeth that resulted in lots of collage paper!

Judy