I don't know why I have trouble throwing things away sometimes, things that I think I might use in art. For instance, I can never look at coffee grounds or tea bags without wanting to dye some paper.
Last week, it was tea bags. I had made a pitcher of iced tea and had a bunch of tea bags headed to the trash. Somehow, though, my feet took me over to a piece of art paper. I spritzed the paper with water and plopped the tea bags on top of it. I went about my day and checked back later. I moved the bags to another part of the paper and spritzed with water again. I did this a couple more times, moving the bags and checking to see what was happening on the paper. I tried to reposition the bags differently each time--flat side down, bottom down, and also open side down, lightly opening the sides so they sat with a hole in the middle where the bag folded upon itself.
The paper was more "dyed" where I sprayed with water then put the bags on the wet paper. I think I like it better where I put the bags on dry paper and spritzed around them. I got more interesting shapes. Speaking of shapes, this is what I saw when I looked at the final product:
In reality, this will most likely end up as a topical map of some kind...
FYI, when doing experiments, don't ever pick up some damp rose petals off the grass after a wedding, put them in a plastic bag in your purse, and forget about them for a week. That is a whole different kind of experiment when you discover a bag of moldy rose petals in the bottom of your purse! I make be able to make penicillin or something, but definitely not art. (No picture of the moldly rose petals. You're welcome.)
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