Very early WIP: Gold
Sep. 12th, 2006 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellThis may be the first in a series. We'll see how this one comes out.
Oh God I need the matte Mod Podge, because this photographs like ass.
So what I did here was to go digging up 16th and 17th century alchemy texts on teh Intarweb, copy/paste bits I liked into a Corel document and gave them a nice old-book-looking font, and printed them out on plain old copy paper. I did a few sheets of quotes with some space between to use in the foreground later, and five pages like these with aaaaaall the quotes all mashed up together for the background.
How I turned plain old copy paper into neat artsy paper:
1. Crumple violently. Uncrumple. Repeat several times until paper is kind of soft. A little tear here and there is perfectly fine. Scuffing up the surface against another piece of paper to knock bits of toner off helps too.
2. Uncrumple one more time, mist both sides with water.
3. Stain with very wet and sloppy watercolors and cheapass sponge brush.
4. Blot excess up with paper towel.
5. Hang up to dry.
That one oddball diagonal piece? That was to cover up a wee booboo. See, I'd gotten the bright idea, after the Mod Podge was (I thought) mostly dry but still a little soft, to rub it down through a piece of aluminum foil to smooth out some of the bumps and wrinkles. Which would have been great, but a HUGE CHUNK of text came right off and stuck to the foil when I peeled it off. Whoops. Luckily, I still had an extra mishmash page prepared for just this kind of fuckup. Most of this is going to get painted over or have stuff stuck over it or both at some point anyway though, so the patch deal won't hurt anything.
Oh God I need the matte Mod Podge, because this photographs like ass.
So what I did here was to go digging up 16th and 17th century alchemy texts on teh Intarweb, copy/paste bits I liked into a Corel document and gave them a nice old-book-looking font, and printed them out on plain old copy paper. I did a few sheets of quotes with some space between to use in the foreground later, and five pages like these with aaaaaall the quotes all mashed up together for the background.
How I turned plain old copy paper into neat artsy paper:
1. Crumple violently. Uncrumple. Repeat several times until paper is kind of soft. A little tear here and there is perfectly fine. Scuffing up the surface against another piece of paper to knock bits of toner off helps too.
2. Uncrumple one more time, mist both sides with water.
3. Stain with very wet and sloppy watercolors and cheapass sponge brush.
4. Blot excess up with paper towel.
5. Hang up to dry.
That one oddball diagonal piece? That was to cover up a wee booboo. See, I'd gotten the bright idea, after the Mod Podge was (I thought) mostly dry but still a little soft, to rub it down through a piece of aluminum foil to smooth out some of the bumps and wrinkles. Which would have been great, but a HUGE CHUNK of text came right off and stuck to the foil when I peeled it off. Whoops. Luckily, I still had an extra mishmash page prepared for just this kind of fuckup. Most of this is going to get painted over or have stuff stuck over it or both at some point anyway though, so the patch deal won't hurt anything.
