Demonstration Art

Sketches

The relatively simple sketches below are for practice. The first is a longhorn cattle skull.

Next is a saber-toothed cat skull.

Demonstration Painting

I used the momigami technique with this painting. It involves crumpling the paper up into a ball and then flattening it out again before starting to paint. It provides texture to the painting's appearance. For this painting, I crumpled the paper several times to get a finer texture. The technique may be applied after the painting is done, too, but the resulting appearance is different.

Urauchi (Stretching): The momigami technique affects how urauchi is done. Normally, glue is applied to the back of the painting after it is placed face down on the board, and then the backing paper is placed on top. The ton ton (pounding with a stiff bristle brush) is done to remove all air bubbles. With a momigami painting, the backing paper is placed on the board first, then glue is applied to the backing paper instead of the painting. The painting is then placed face up on top of the backing paper. Ton ton is still done, but to protect the painting, place an extra sheet of paper or a paper towel on top first. The objective is still to securely glue the painting to the backing sheet, but it is important to keep the wrinkled effect.