Abstract Agave – Exploration of Color and Spirit

Agave Abstract Photo on Paper Bag Paper © 2014 Bo Mackison

Nature wears the colors of the spirit. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What happens when you use a brown paper bag as a canvas, sponge on globs of paints, then add spray paint and glitter?

You have surprisingly beautiful paper with amazing texture and color. I wondered what would happen if I printed a photograph of the delicate paper. I treated the paper with Golden’s Digital Ground, a clear ground that allowed me to run the paper bag through a printer. This was the result.

Hidden Beauty © 2014 Bo Mackison

This is the photograph I printed on the paper, an agave manipulated in digital post processing.

What fun experimenting with paper, paint and photographs on a Sunday afternoon. Now that I’ve successfully printed a photograph on the paper bag, I’m considering all the possibilities. So many possibilities…

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Thanks to Marline Dunn for her expertise and guidance as we gathered stacks of paper bags, then added paint, water and sunshine.