[Aquanet] making paper

[Phyllis Mcdonough]

I have a large supply of blotting paper which I would like to use. Any
suggestions? Should I size it or has anyone made really fuzzy paintings?
Anyone else used this? I sent to England for it so that it is a slightly
thicker paper than I found here in the USA. I was going to use it for
texturing ALA Charles Demuth, not to pretend his talent, but his "Red Roofs"
was amazing but haven't really applied it as I thought I would.  SO anyone?
Phyllis

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:aquanet-bounces at thedigitalbraintrust.net] On Behalf Of pat davis
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:12 PM
To: aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net
Subject: [Aquanet] making paper

Hi, gang.

For several years now I've been tearing up failed works on w/c with an 
eye to using them to make my own w/c paper, and two days ago I had a go, 
tearing the paper more, soaking it in hot water, stirring it to make a 
slurry, etc. Well, everything worked right up to the slurry part as the 
paper just sat there in its chunks and refused to disintegrate at all, 
no matter how energetically I stirred and whipped the wretched stuff. I 
have a whole new respect for the toughness of w/c paper, but that 
doesn't help at all with making new paper.

Any hints or is this a lost cause?

sigh
pat

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