faux tie dyed paper tutorial with square paper

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Faux Tie-dyed Paper-Folding Technique

Making painty papers is a wonderful way to have a stash readily available when you want to work on your journal or make a new collage. Sometimes, the papers themselves provide a burst of inspiration as you combine their colors with other elements that strike your fancy. This tutorial will teach you a very easy way to imitate the paper tye-dying by using folding. The possibilities are endless, they depend upon your own inspiration and creativity, the color palette that you choose, and on how you fold the paper.

Let me share this tutorial with you to get your creative juices flowing:

You will need:

* Water-based markers (I used Faber Castell but use any kind you have).

* Paper (you need pliable paper, such as thin rice paper. For experimentation, I used thin coffee, filters, you can use Deli Paper, also the kind of paper used to wrap sandwiches or parchment paper. I haven't tried tissue paper but I am not sure it would not fall apart when folded while wet.)

* Spray bottle half full with water. 

Have all your materials ready on hand.

If necessary, use some plastic sheeting to protect your table.

* Step 1-

Flatten your coffee filter.

* Step 2- 

Picking your own color palette, start painting the coffee filter with your markers. You can make triangles, circles, squares, stripes, zigzags, etc.

Now think of what you want to use your beautiful painty paper for!

Just Sharing...

I love color and perhaps because of that, old barns attract me. The contrast between hay and the vibrant shades of a red barn appeal to me. "At the Hay Loft" is one of my acrylic paintings and it seeks to capture that contrast while leaving the shape of the barn to your own imagination and particular preference of shape and size, the barn is just suggested while the hay is enhanced, the composition seeks to juxtapose the grassy feel of the hay with the vivid, rustic quality of a brightly painted old barn.

Playing With Color

These are some of the painty papers I am making to use as background pieces for my art journals and for my collages. I love color and it is easy to be artsy when playing with different shades. Today, it was cool shades of green and blue.

The green ones were made with water-soluble markers and the blue with art crayons that were brushed over with a wet brush. I have found that before I spread medium over them, I must seal them or the colors will run, so I sealed them with watered down glue. That is why the first one looks shiny.
For some reason, the glue makes them glistening and quite transparent. Which opens up a whole realm of creative possibilities...

I'd like to share some of my quotes, for journaling, hope you like them:

Take care and keep on creating!