Misty Faces

I have limited space currently 

so I am still exploring 

working on tea bags
I recently put up a new experiment 

and was asked about process

It begins with a tea bag

dried with side edges removed

on a silicon baking sheet

I draw a face with sumi e ink

this particular one

this time

I apply white egg tempera

(egg yolk, mixed with titanium dioxide white powdered pigment}

and end up with 2 faces

they are left to dry

the one on the left has been flipped over 

so the image is now facing down

I apply traditional gesso to the tea bag

then a piece of paper

which also has gesso applied

then another tea bag and another layer of gesso

so the sandwich consists of 2 tea bags and 1 paper filler 

and 3 layers of traditional gesso

they are then left to dry completely

before carefully peeling them off the baking sheet

I do not use silicon baking paper as you

 end up with a very wrinkly result

The flipped image 

The unflipped image is a lot mistier

This is after beeswax has been applied

flipped image

unflipped image

'Calista'

 is available in my Etsy Shop

and this is the original 

image

If you have any questions please leave a comment