Tape edges of the card to protect them and make a nice edge, about a 1/4" border. LIghtly sketch a triangle representing the size of the tree. Then, using inexpensive masking tape, tear tape into small pieces. It's important the tape be TORN. The more expensive type will not "bleed" or leak under as much as the cheap stuff.
Next step: wet the entire paper, including over the tape. Then add stripes of color, whatever you like. On some I used greens, blues, and gold; on another I used alizarin crimson, blue, and violet.
Now WATCH PAINT DRY. If you want to use salt, put it on while the paint is wet. But this time, I allowed the shine to leave the paint, and dropped clean water into the drying paint. It should make little bursts of blossoms. You can also spritz lightly to create small droplets.
Allow the painting to dry completely. You want the paint that leaked under the tape to be dry as well as the background. You can use a blow dryer, but on low only. You don't want to glue the tape to the picture.
When dry, remove the tape from the tree. Don't worry if it didn't bleed as much as you might want...you can always add small lines with brush or pen. When finished, you can add gold paint or irridescent paints. I kind of like it as is, though.
For more about tape batik process, google Sandy Maudlin tape batik, and you'll see some fabulous paintings. This is a process she created, and it can be done on yupo as well as regular watercolor paper.
You can click on these below to see a few.
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