Painting paper

Aleburzyn · Post by **Aleburzyn** » February 17th, 2009, 1:15 am

I've never heard about this in the forum so I'll ask: when you need duo colored paper, have you tried to paint both sides of paper instead of backcoating sheets of different colors?

Post by **origami_8** » February 17th, 2009, 1:30 am

Of course, but with most kinds of colours the paint will come up to your hands, maybe mixing on the paper but at least colouring your fingers. Some people spend quite some time on colouring their paper trying to achieve different effects. Look here for example: http://thebraid.wordpress.com/2008/02/1 ... aper-uses/

steingar · Post by **steingar** » February 17th, 2009, 7:44 pm

Mark Kennedy used to dye the back side of foils for his models. He used acrylics and various methods of applications using brushes or sponges. Once the weather warms up here I'm going to give it a try with some Japanese foil.

Yuri and Katrin Shumakov · February 22nd, 2009, 1:01 am

We do have a solution when you need duo colored paper.
Well, you can paint your paper digitally... We personally do use copy paper a lot, so often we print out appropriate patterns on one side. Actually we have created quite a collection of different patterns (in our CorelDraw program) on various themes - floral patterns, patterns imitating materials for vases and boxes, and so on. We usually add the appropriate patterns n 'Paper Coloring' section to each of our CDs. You can see the example here http://www.oriland.com/store/cds/origam ... g/main.asp
We do not have those patterns separately to try them...

But you can check out Canon Creative Park website for some Chiyogami patterns that they kindly offer there for download
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/2004/list_15_1.html
They also supply nice description to each patten, so you can learn about Japanese culture even.

Hope it helps in some way

Katrin and Yuri Shumakov
http://www.oriland.com

OrigamiGianluca · Post by **OrigamiGianluca** » February 22nd, 2009, 2:04 am

Some weeks ago I've tried to do my own painted paper.
I was doing a Maya piramid so I needed to get an effect of ancient stone.
I've started with a grey sheet of tissue paper, and I've painted it with an old toothbrush and some different watercolours.
The reuslt was good, but even if I've let it to dry for one day and one night, after folding the model there was more paint on my fingers than on the paper.

More, since the folding sequence was quite long with al lot of precrease, some colour spread on the sheet under the effect of my fingertips on it.
For my work it has given an even more realistic effect, but I can understand that in some other cases this could be a big problem.