Another Wack at Yupo Paper (with my creatives minus two)

🙏 Today my friend Cathie is healing from a significant surgery.  If you know her and you lean this way - send up a prayer for her healing and strength.  And to the every sweet and kind Cheryl, enough with the flu woman. Of course prayers for her too. 💞 She is very nearly better.

I mention Cathie and Cheryl because they are missing from my little covey of creatives that get together to make things, try things and teach one another things.  Art related things. And we make each other laugh.  when two are missing it is felt deeply.  Get better!

3 of the regular creatives met today at Sue S's home.  She laid out plastic furniture covering over the table.  I knew it would be fun.  Sue knew we would be messy messers. We were.

We played with yupo paper. I brought the homemade alcohol inks (and a new one that I made with mica - meh).  Sue brought out her acrylic ink pots.  I only got one picture and naturally Sue G was reading a "What Women Create" mag...  not painting.   It's funny how personalities come out with the yupo.  Sue G (lady in olive top on left) cracked me up.  She used every color on offer.  She is today's Art Maximalist award winner.  She created beautiful alcohol ink blooms with gorgeous bubbles.  Then she decided it wasn't enough and as she was flourishing she said "I think I went too far".  She didn't. It was different, but beautiful.  You can see the color madness just beyond her on the left back of the table.  She also did an acrylic ink (she had a few iterations).  I shall call it caterpillar splat.  Let's see if you can find it. These were her first cracks at it.  She is always good for trying new things😊

Sue S (lady with the plaid arm) won the Art Minimalist award. Her acrylic ink masterpiece was dubbed: One red twig bush with high fiving branches backed with monkey shaped waterfall. You can see her mid painting there.  I think that is before she decided to put sugar and pepper on it.  The lady is experimental!  Oh, some extra notes on yupo paper discovered by Sue the Minimalist Yupo Artist: one ply toilet paper remnants stay on the yupo paper if you scrub off paint and redo and they look remarkably like granulating watercolor.  She also stuck on wet proof tissue to the wet acrylic ink and it got STUCK there.  I put cling film on mine and caught it before it became a permanent feature on mine.  Beware.  But if you want to get an effect from paper or wrap, mist the paint and then dab.  Paint sits on top.  It will move, but not like on paper.  Modpodge to secure art to yupo? Afraid not.  It... slurried.

 I was the Middlest - which gets no awards. I did another alcohol ink (I am going to cut it and put it on a card):

 And I did the yellow painted yupo to the right on the Saran wrap (the group photo).  It was just a less dramatic version of one the Art Minimalist awardee made a few days ago which I adored (It was a flaming yellow and bold brown thing of beauty).  I raved about it then she assaulted it with a tissue paper flourish right over the best yellow flame of glory!  Cathie P loved it.  I demanded it's former glory.  Nope. So I tried making one.  Wasn't quite as satisfying to look at.  Such are the vagaries of yupo + liquid anything.  

Bottom line: Yupo paper is fun especially in the company of a maximalist and a minimalist.

Next up for yupo experiments: I am going to burn it with the soldering iron. 

 Feel better Cheryl and Cathie. A demand, not a suggestion🩷