As a continuation of the experiments with portraits I laid a sheet of acetate over one of the portraits and roughly marked out the dark areas using PVA (knowing it would react with the acrylic) and then painted the light areas as before. I then pressed these onto black paper mixing the paint and creating texture as the two were peeled apart. When scanned with the lid open the acetate came out really well and at a high resolution the movement of the paint and texture of the brush strokes is really interesting.
Below is a crop of one of the faces, but the smoky texture down the left, the bubbling in the middle and areas where it looks to have been rubbed off like in the top right are completely uncontrollable and beautiful.
The downside to this technique is that at A5 size the details are too small to be seen properly and therefore wouldn't look nearly as good in the book format.
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