Surfaces

Recently I was having a play around creating surfaces and I added some kitchen tin foil to the surface of the calico, but it wouldn't play nicely so I covered it with tissue paper and carried on painting, once dry I liked the subtle effect where the foil showed through the tissue even with the colour on top it left a glow.
I tried out some larger pieces, using a base of calico I covered it with pva glue and then tin foil, you can push little creases in if you wish at this stage, I didn't want too many, I then covered the tin foil in pva glue and scrunched up my tissue paper and laid it on the top and allowed to dry. It takes a day or so.
I then just built up washes of colour with Goldens fluid acrylic (magenta) and interference oxide violet and green.




The one below I scrunched the foil up a bit more then added the paint while everything was still wet, and it came out the same as the first sample. Although you can't see the foil there is a lovely sheen to the base colour

To compare the end results this third one is just the standard tissue and calico, painted the same way as the two above, and although it has turned out well, the fabric and tissue crinkled a lot more and it doesn't have the same shimmer in the background.