I painted on top of the mod roc in a single shade of brown acrylic but because of the texture it produced nice varying shades and tones:
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I tested painting a strip of cardboard with goauche paints and this worked really well in terms of what I wanted the books to look like as it dries semi-shiney and has a bit of a washed out quality.
For some of the books a glued string to the cardboard and painted over this also to give a ridged cover effect.
For the rest of them, I cut out individual books, covered the edges with masking tape to disguise the ridges in the cardboard and then painted these with goauche paints. Once dried I glued lots of cut up book pages inside to give the impression of mini little books!
For some of the books a glued string to the cardboard and painted over this also to give a ridged cover effect.
For the rest of them, I cut out individual books, covered the edges with masking tape to disguise the ridges in the cardboard and then painted these with goauche paints. Once dried I glued lots of cut up book pages inside to give the impression of mini little books!
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