Painting on tissue paper

I liked the painted tissue paper I made by trying a lot of techniques on one project, so I tried to recreate it.

I started by painting a piece of 9x12 inch mix media paper with gesso I had tinted with yellow acrylic paint. Then using mod-podge I glued down glitter tissue paper.

Using soft pastels I colored the tissue paper.

Next I covered the pastels with mod-podge. The mod-podge blends and seals the pastels and holds the tissue paper in place.

I painted another piece of mix media paper with gesso I tinted with blue acrylic.

Then I pressed the tissue paper painting onto the blue paint.

Then I pressed the tissue paper painting onto the blue paint. I wanted a little more contrast, so I painted some of the tissue paper orange with watercolor markers.

I tried again, this time I started with a green background and pressed the painting onto red and yellow paint.

On this piece I used several layers of different colors of pastels, than several layers of different colors of tinted gesso. The end result is pretty messy.

I cut circles out of the last painted tissue paper project to use on a box I made to hold paper for a new project.

I used the piece I cut the circles out of to go on the bottom of a box I made to hold my watercolor paper I cut up for zentangles.  The end result of the painted tissue paper was not exactly like the first time, but still very interesting. Because the layer of mod-podge you can paint on them with watercolor or any other medium. I shaded, shadowed and highlighted the pieces I glued to the boxes I made, and they look great. If you try this technique yourself, don’t be surprise if it does not look anything like the pieces I did. The fun part is it will always look unique, just have fun with it.