Painting paper

I've seen a few painting techniques on Pinterest that I wanted to try.  Last weekend I finally had a change to do so, here is what I got.

Bubble painting

I started out with instructions from this blog, but soon found out that I had to tweak the process a little bit.  Instead of pressing the paper over the bubbles, like the original instructions, I made enough bubbles and scooped them to the paper using a spoon.

I didn't have any tempera, so I used some acrylics I had.  I got very faint colors in the beginning and it might be due to the viscosity of the paints I used.  Scooping the bubble onto the paper seemed to solve some of the problem I initially had with intensity of color.
It's a fun technique and a great, inexpensive way to get one of a kind papers from those "what was I thinking" papers we all have around the house.

This one was the first one I tried.  I started with white paper and used the three primary colors using the "stamping" method ( pressing the paper against the bubbles).  After doing the second paper (next picture), I went back to this one, using black and then the primary colors again - this time scooping - before the black bubbles bursted, so the colors blended a little bit.

Second try.  Green and black over a light (I think it was beige) background.
The bubbles were placed over the paper with the help of a spoon.  J and I were working together and the result is that some of the impressions left by the
bubbles have both colors - quite interesting effect.

On this last experiment, I used black paper. Initially I was going to use only white paint, but it was very, very faint, so I went back to my basic palette too. By the time I was doing this one I realized that the paint slides from the bubble (duh!) very fast, so to get the result shown in the photo, I worked fast.