teabag art..... {similar fashion}

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.......similar fashion.

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xo. kristin

tea bag {art}

tea bag....

delicate; fragile'ness of mediocure translucency....

oh how i love working on you.

you present a whole 'nother layer of creative issues to contend with. 

• remove itsy-bitsy staple to open bag- check
• very carefully opened the bag to remove the tea without completely destroying bag- check
• gesso bag without tearing- no check; tear one huge hole and another small hole- drat
• use masking tape to repair- check
• glue down collage- mostly check; did require additional gluing

happy wednesday.

xo. kristin

fairie {tea bag}

 when one is good, two must be better..... 

and especially with a woodland fairie and some black and white polka dots.....

happy wednesday.

xo. kristin

tea bag {art}

working on a few swaps....this one is the tea bag swap.

this is one of two bags.

• gesso
• collage
• polka dot stencil in payne's grey
• quin azo nickel gold

happy monday.

xo. kristin

printing

are you familiar with Art to the 5th and their Documented Life Project? each week they had chosen an artist to represent that week's challenge. this week's challenge was translucent papers and the artist is Lynne Hoppe.

her blog post for this week's challenge was printing using tea bags....and i have to say- i love it!! check out my studio princesses i made this last weekend using Lynne's technique.

it was apparently meant to be as i had started drinking a cup of tea at work in the afternoons and saving the bags to use in some sort of art project and then i read Lynne's post on saturday and was so excited!

the bags i had saved from work had a fold down the middle like the pink princess example above. so i dug in my cupboard to look for other bags without a fold. i did find that i had tea bags without that fold; which i used below. i noticed that this tea was a black berry and loved the color that was seeping through the bag. i laid the damp bags onto my paper to begin with and let them dry before doing any printing. 

for the purple one, i wanted to see if it would print onto a gesso'd wooden panel....and i think it printed just fine- i like the results; although, i am not sure i would get the color of the drying tea bags on the panel like the paper did. so if you liked that effect- stick with the paper.

happy monday.