| Author | Message | ||
  tom linotta Unregistered guest |
where can i find yupo in italy....or england | ||
Bruce Filiault |
Hey, hope someone can help me. I have a Oriental watercolor painting done on a mat of woven strips of paper about 1 1/4 inches wide. Can anyone tell me the name of this technique? Thanks. | ||
John Smith |
Lee. Be very careful when framing yupo. It's best to use a spacer to keep it from touching the glass, because sometimes even touching the glass will lift the pigments. | ||
carol |
it's tricky.... i use a very soft brush. golden fleece works ok. make sure the underpainting is totaly dry. the trick is to only go over it once... twice and you lift the underpainting up. the acrylic underpainting, as mentioned works good. | ||
John Preston |
Short of fixing the surface with something, I don't know what you could do. POSSIBLY, spraying it with an acrylic type spray might hold it in place and leave a surface that roughly mimics Yupo. I'd definitely experiment on scrap, first. In future you might try underpainting in diluted acrylics. | ||
rebamc |
HI, I'm looking for some answers about working with watercolor on Yupo paper. I have some very nice underpainting s done, BUT how do I glaze over them w/o totaly loosing the underpainting? Is there a way? Help please, rebecca | ||
Judi May |
All of this info on this type of paper sounds fascinating but you all know what todo. I have just found it in our art store and would like a quick simple beginners lesson. So share with me and get me started. Does this watercolor chip oiff when it dries? I have never seen a sample here in any art shows in Canada but maybe I just cannot recognize it. | ||
Kukana |
If there is any oil on Yupo, even frm slightly touching it with clean hands, watercolor paint can repell from it. Wiping it with alcohol simply helps pick up the oil..but not all of it. I will yupo paper by the sheet because to do so someone touched it to get it out of the package. I only buy it in the original shrink wrap to avoid any unexpected touching of it. I use cotton gloves to cut them, and handle them before painting. Once I start painting I don't keep being quite so fussy. | ||
Anonymous |
A"n artist in Savannah suggested preparing yupo by wiping it with isopropyl alcohol. Why is that?" It is used to clean the YUPO by some artists. | ||
Barbara Kirsh |
An artist in Savannah suggested preparing yupo by wiping it with isopropyl alcohol. Why is that? | ||
Kukana |
Sounds funky Carol. Thought I'd try a bunch of stuff out of the kitchen ans see what happens with some abstract stuff. I'm headed into a new color way right now..I'm really loving WN Scarlet Lake, DS Green Gold and AJ violet. thick and out of the tube they are all reall funky. Especially love the scarlet lake . Like Cad red but not as opaque. Try a tube. | ||
carol |
kukana... hey girl what's happening! i haven't been checking on the board lately.lots to do ..summer is so short. and our last winter here in the northeast lasted about 10 years. so your fooling around with yupo. sanding it! is that to give it some tooth? do you use the heavy weught? let me know the results. i tried some bright w/c's on sm. pieces of yupo then spread out saran wrap on the and let them dry ( takes a while to dry, like a day) the pulled the wrap off and had some neat stuff happen. went back in and lifted and added darks. | ||
Kukana |
I've been in a Wild Wacky Rut so I just ordered some Yupo paper. Nothing like Yupo to push one out of ones comfort zone. Anyone ever sand the paper before working on it? I thought I'd try it. Any other new ideas for it. I don't know if I ever told you all but i had a yupo anting that was the pits that I ended up puttin gon the floor of my studio and using a drip mat for my paints when I was doing washes etc. After about 6 months my then 18 years old son picked it up off the floor, cut it in two, droped it in to 2 mats and said, look Mom, a dyptic! I took them to the next show I did as a joke and they were the first two pieces sold!!!!! I couldn't believe it!!! | ||
carol |
Judy I use a " Blair Matte Spray 201" I believe the folks at Cheap Joe's sell it. | ||
Judy |
All these questions about Yupo...I have one too. Do you need to seal the painting in any way? I have done some paintings on Yupo and framed them in the standard method for watercolors, but want to be sure my customers are getting a quality product. Will the painting deteriorate if it is not sprayed or treated in some way? | ||
unyru |
Oriental Papers and their usage for watercolors, plus their history, ways of attaching them to finished paintings,methods of doing so and lots more can be found in a book by Frederick Wong. I am sorry to say that I do not know whether this artist is still living, but I hope so. From being a blithering idiot about the techniques used by orientals with these beautiful papers, I went to doing a number of them...not to sell,..to satisfy myself..and Mr. Wong was the initial inspiration. My goal is to do several of these in 2003. | ||
Marty Rat |
Thanks, Carol, I'll give that a try. | ||
carol |
marty... you might try putting it under a light for a while. be careful of using a hair blower, as yupo will melt. but i think a little wouldn't hurt. | ||
Marty Rat |
I recently started working a bit..well, playing might be more accurate...on Yupo. Love the flow of it, but can't seem to get it to dry completely. Particularly in areas where I put down my darkest values. Any suggestions>? | ||
carol |
kay... is the technique used with crinkled ( wadded) rice paper? I have a book " oriental watercolor techniques for contemporary painting" that uses this tech. Check out amazon.com and enlarge the book cover. if this is the style i might be able to help you out. | ||
Irisone |
In response to Kay's experience with using Masa paper over a watercolor -- Karlyn Holman taught this method in one of her workshops. It is outlined in her book "Watercolor Fun and Free". North Light carries it. Karlyn used unryu 10-gram fibered Thai white unryu paper, fiber side up, over the entire painting. page 55 of her book. She gives the glue mixture recipe, and the method to adhere it to the painting. I have some of the unryu she used and it is a MUCH thinner paper than Masa, and has lots of fiber flakes giving the painting a texture. Good luck. | ||
John Preston |
Kay, There sure are a lot of Japanese "rice" papers though ironically none are actually made from rice. Did your instructor mention any other names, like Masa, Kozo or the like? Some of the papers are smooth and some have all manner of bark and such in them. It probably would help to go to a well stocked paper store and feel them for yourself. The technique sounds interesting. | ||
unyru |
Cheng Khee Chee, an artist who will teach at Cheap Joe's in 2003 (I think his schedule is filled)is an expert at the technique. I believe he uses Masa paper, one of the so-called rice papers most of which are not from rice at all.You might try to find a book by this artist, but I have not at this point seen one. Are you talking "watercolor" painting with the overlay of oriental paper? If so, first the adhesive you use is important,just any won't do. But before I discourage you, try to contact your previous workshop teacher to see if you can find a book source on the right technique.You're right, the results when properly done, are fantastic. Hope you find better answers than this,..its been awhile since I've done what we're talking about, but I am about to get into it again. | ||
Kay |
Recently attended a watercolor workshop from Maggie Hall Hoybach where she adhered Rice paper onto a finished painting. It was beautiful and had lots of nice texture. In trying it when I got home with my Rice paper, no texture appeared upon adhering it to my painting. My Rice paper had no texture. Are there different types of Rice paper, should one wad the Rice paper before applying, or what? Hope someone can help me with this. Thanks | ||
fotoanne |
Has anyone come up with a printed (or video) source of tips & techniques for painting on YUPO yet? | ||
Kukana |
I use the two piece panels from Graphic Display Systems. I am very happy woth htem . The booth has evolved and gotten much better but I still use the same panels. No show this weekend!!Yeah!!!!! | ||
jandrle |
Kukana... Have you revised your booth again? Is the last booth picture you posted the one you are still using? I have been reading some about display... am thinking about some alternatives to just wall/table. Have you found a supplier for display pieces that don't weigh a ton? I have thought of some stacking pedestals that wouldn't take up much space in the Rav4... and I won't drive anything larger! haha Jane | ||
Kukana |
Yes Cathy..Friday and Saturday..August 30 and 31. I am Booth #9..along the street on the west end of the square. You can't miss my booth. It bright, happy and COLORFUL!!!(Yes I meant for that to be all CAPS!!!! Can't wait to see you there!!! | ||
Cathy |
Hi Kukana, I too have sold everything I paint on Yupo. I just ordered a 25 pack from CJ, I don't want to be caught without it! I am thinking of entering a couple of juried shows with the Yupo and see how they do. It is great to hear about your success, I look forward to seeing you... the last weekend in August?? Is that right? | ||
Kukana |
I really enjoy laying paint out on Yupo paper...which what I do...lay it out rather than paint it on! Its an interesting challenge, like you said Cathy,.. the paper will not allow one to overwork it. I have sold EVERYTHING I have ever painted on Yupo which I think is very interesting. The work looks very 'painterly!' Im doing a show this weekend here in my own home town..(Feels grerat to sleep in my own bed.) A friend of mine at the show had a couple of yupo pieces in a bin that sold right away, first thing. Isn't that interesting? Buyers like this stuff. | ||
Cathy |
The sunflower painting is 8" x 9 1/2". It took me about an hour to paint. That's what I like about yupo, I tend to overwork my paintings sometimes on regular watercolor paper, but with yupo you could wipeout your whole painting if you did that. | ||
Cathy |
Ok... I haven't posted an image for a while, lets see if this works. This is a watercolor painting on yupo.  | ||
John Preston |
Has anyone tried Golden's absorbent ground over gesso with watercolor? Seems like it ought to be similar to the clayboard surfaces: holds the paint but allows easy lifting, etc. Just curious... | ||
Cathy |
Hi Joann, What I have found working on Yupo is you just have paint and paint some more to know what you can do with it. One thing that is fun to do is to get it wet and put in your colors, tip your paper this way and that and let them mix and dry. You get great effects and is a good technique for backgrounds. Sprinkling salt on the wet paint works too with yupo. Once you become familiar with yupo you you can darken colors without lifting them. I have found that if you paint a color, let it dry, go back and darken it you won't lift the paint off, but it seems if you do it a third time it wipes out what you did. Of course how wet your paint is when you put it down the second or third time may have something to do with whether you lift the paint or not. I usually go back and darken the detailed areas of my work. I am at work right now, but I will try to post a painting I did yesterday on yupo so you can see what I mean. Drollere, lol, you and your analytical mind . . . I didn't even think about why they call yupo 'paper' instead of 'plastic'. I guess they call it that to define that we are to use it like paper. Don'cha think? :-) Cathy | ||
drollere |
as far as i know, yupo paper is not paper but plastic. | ||
JoAnn |
I enjoy working with Yupo paper and am interested in finding out more about techniques. Do you know were info would be available? Or what techniques have others used that were successful | ||
carol |
Check out yupo.com You can also email them and ask for a sample package. | ||
Cathy |
Don't know about Ontario, but you can order it here at Cheap Joes! | ||
LEE |
Where can I buy Yupo Paper in Ontario, Canada? I was given a sample at a class and love it! |
