#dlp2015 week 5

The theme this week was to use your under paper (the kraft paper / newsprint / whatever you keep under your projects to protect your work surface as you create) on your page somehow. Under papers often have ink over spray, brayer roll offs, stamp proofs, pen tests, haiku drafts, etc on them - whatever the artist needs to use them for, so they're a just-about-free art supply that's completely unique, no two ever the same.

I dug out one of mine and cut a couple strips, folded them over and stitched around the edges. Then folded them one inside the other and stitched them to my page so that they made staggered flaps that lift up. Added the word "under" to the flaps, drew a vine, cut leaves and circles from more under paper, did a bunch more doodling and called it done.

The background is book text with a watercolor wash, then less watery drops blown around with a straw. Bit of shading in the corners with gel sticks. I quite like the look of this one. Kept adding tendrils to the vine until it looked full enough to me. I tend to stop too soon on things like that so they always look sparse to me later, but I like this one.