Backgrounds

Recently, when I was out shopping, I spotted a small piece of distressed metal. Years of picking up little things for collage never seems to stop for me. I usually have to rescue bits and pieces for " it may be useful someday" projects.

I have been making backgrounds for my digital creations and this latest piece seemed like the perfect home for my new acquisition. It started a with a collage of telephone book pages. Next I added layers of tissue paper and pieces of stained brown paper towel. I use Golden Gesso for the white paint and Golden Fluid Acrylic to stain and paint the other areas.