tea?

-Fanny pack · Post by **-Fanny pack** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:16 pm

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:
CapitanG wrote:
Ryuko wrote: o_O
This conversation is making me hot...
... and deliciously bothered...
Ominous!

I do apologize, but this is my stop, meaning that those misappropriated damsels have no place on your wallet.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:34 am

Sorry to interrupt, but to get back to the question of painting with tea...my wife introduced me to the idea of tea staining a few years ago, and I was quite impressed with it. She took a heavy, textured paper...like a watercolor arch, but sturdier...and just dipped a brush in strong pekoe tea and stained the whole page with it. Then I did some calligraphy and watercolor over the whole thing to make a very frameable piece. This was about ten years ago, and the piece still holds up. That may be either because of the frame or the paper used....regular bond paper might not work so well.
I haven't tried it, but I wonder what would happen if you tea stained something like an illustration board or good bristol and then sprayed it with a fixative? I'd almost be afraid that the combination of chemicals in the tea and fixative would have a corrosive effect, but it might be an experiment. Anyone tried it?