Brayer Paper
Easy and fun to make for collage, origami and paper crafts.

Supplies needed: Niji Craft Pack white tissue paper freezer paper (from grocery store) white or black gesso acrylic paints in several colors rubber brayer

  Instructions:

Carefully pick up the wet tissue and hang it up by clothespins until dry. Coat other side of tissue using the same steps as before. Brayer additional coats of gesso if you want heavier paper.

Be sure to wash your brayer thoroughly to keep it soft.

Select a few acrylic colors for your paper. Plan a color scheme such as violets and blues, yellows and browns etc. Thin the colors to the consistency of sour cream with matte medium or water. Coat the brayer evenly with the paint and lightly roll the brayer from the center out to the edges of the paper. This process will deposit a broken layer of paint, an effect that is desirable! Dry the paint with a hairdryer and follow with another color.If you alternate between light and dark colors you will have a stunning effect. Repeat process until  the surface is covered. Adding interference colors will create a luminescent effect.

This technique and other exciting ideas can be found in
Creative Collage Techniques by Nita Leland. Published by Northlight Books