Experimenting with Yupo paper is part of this month’s assignment. Yupo is slick, non absorbent – kinda like photo-paper – and “not cheap”.
The water-color paint does strange and interesting things on the paper and most of it isn’t in your (read MY) control.
I started with the intention of doing flowers (from the 100 flowers we are to draw – I’ve not done 100 but am pooped out on flowers for the moment).
I “flung” water-color at the paper in a devil-may-care manner pretending it didn’t matter if I ruined a sheet of expensive paper . . .
The more I looked the weirder it got. I saw all kinds of faces & critters in the strange shapes. So I emphasized the faces I saw with pencil and here is Yupo #1, my kind of fairy-garden . . . and I am, I swear, completely sober.
CURIOUS to the MAX 
I have a new pack of Yuppo to experiment with during this visit with my mom … I’m looking forward to the experience … I’m sure it’ll be a challenge for this “perfectionist in rehab”. Thank you for sharing and your input. VERY interesting
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Perhaps some subliminal things at work with your “splash” art??? Resembles a cross between illustrations for Dr. Seuss and Alice and Wonderland…
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Judy, Yupo! This is amazingly wonderful and fun. I love the details on your outline, making all those sea creatures. I hope you frame this.
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Each time I look at your painting, I see different shapes morphing into fairy faces and dragons’ heads. Yupo is definitely an interesting medium for an observer!
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Phylor,
Print out the Yupo painting and sketch in the fairy faces and dragons’ heads! if you’re so inclined. No worry about making it look “good” – I’d love to see what you see.
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Done — one in color and once I switched to b & w. I don’t have much luck photographing pictures (and my camera isn’t really working) but I will try!
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Beautiful, and very interesting too!
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Thank you doggiekisses!
Using this paper is a lesson in letting go of control!
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ha! I bet! You did a great job. I love the results!
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