Before and After Turtle Multi-Media Painting

Julia's work is shown here before and after the painstaking addition of the turtle-.Both the turtle and the seaweed are made from white tissue paper that Julia had a great (and very messy) time mixing paint for to create just the right atmosphere. The shell was created from crumpled hand-colored tissue paper, while the seaweed was rolled or torn and attached with gel medium. The technique was adapted from Eric Carle's (The very Hungry Caterpillar) and probably a good deal messier. You don't need to start with white tissue paper though, and you can use any means to create texture on the paper.