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Watercolor-Painted Collage Papers

By Meghan Burch

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2016
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About this lesson

The Carle Museum's studio method for making textured collage papers: crayon rubbings on tracing paper, washed over with liquid watercolor that the crayon resists, then dried and cut or torn for collage. Offered as an easier alternative to acrylic-painted papers.