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How can I paint acrylics onto craft paper?
I have spray mounted some sheets of craft paper to canvas (it's just decorative papers for scrap booking). I want to paint acrylics over top, but it just keeps wrinkling and bubbling the paper. Aside from putting some kind of clear plastic over top of the paper and painting over that, is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?
Unless you were using watercolor paper in either a block or stretched, you'll encounter buckling or as you call it rippling=(same thing) even when you apply gesso because gesso is wet and because the paper is porous, it will buckle.
If you really would love to incorporate the paper so it shows through, then paint clear acrylic medium on canvas, stick paper to wet medium. When it dries, the clear paint under it will render it immobile...then put another coat of clear acrylic medium on top of that paper. Let that dry too. (you can use a hair dryer to speed the top of paper coat...you can now paint on that paper-leaving some of the paper showing through the clear medium. You can use matt finish clear medium which will dry opaque or glossy. (I'd personally pick glossy. It will make your colors pop.
Wait overnight for that to dry. Then paint ontop of the hardened/newly immobile/primed paper.
TIP:
Always rinse your brushes with COLD water or the paint will bake if you use hot water into the roots of the brushes and destroy them. Store them flat or bristols up so you don't lose your brush points.
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