Tag: tissue paper

Neutrals in collage

I talked in a recent post about using tissue papers in my collage work. I had recently just taken a bunch of tissue papers and drew on them so that I had some overlays ready for collage work. I drew some different marks, such as eye shapes and some leaves, circles, and other shapes, in different sizes so I would have a nice variety of papers. I used some of these in some recent, neutral palette works.

This first piece is called Porcelain, since the colors reminded my husband and I of some porcelain cups that we have. This piece is all tissue papers, including the drawn marked ones and some gel plate prints, over a paper-covered wooden background. It’s about 5 inches by 5 inches.

This second piece is just called Neutrals Collage. I used some of my marked up tissue papers and then some non-transparent collage papers layered in. I really enjoy how layering tissue papers adds more depth to the piece. This piece is on a paper-covered canvas. It’s about 5 inches x 7 inches.

Sketchbook Collage 12/6/25

I have been playing with some stuff I’ve learned recently, or relearned. I really like the transparency that tissue paper provides when you layer it in a collage. I have used it in the past a lot but had not used it in a long time. I was reintroduced to it by the class I referenced in my last post, and also by a youtube video I watched recently, showing how to do botanical prints using a gel plate on tissue papers. Those can then be layered in collage. This sketchbook page was fun to make and used tissue paper (and botanical prints I made with my gel plate). I also used water soluble crayons, construction paper, and other collage papers I have made in the past.