OUGD504 - My Design Choices - Stock Experiment

I had a look in the library yesterday to see if they had any stock that would've been suitable for me to use. The colour of the green and blue stock they had in was too saturated and bright for what I'd need, although they did have some sheets of watercolour paper, which I thought I'd do some experiments with.

Although it's not coloured, due to the fact that it's watercolour paper, I'd have thought that I'd be able to paint it without it curling and then print on top of it.

It's textured and is the right sort of thickness that I'm looking for, and if the idea of painting it works, this would be perfect because me painting the stock just makes it something that's even more personal to me.

 

Unfortunately I don't have a massive amount of paint at home, and so I painted an A5 section of each side green or blue so I can print on it on Monday, and see how the leaflet looks on both green and blue.

When the green section had dried, the texture on the page was still visible to the eye as well as to the touch, which is good. 

My painting quite clearly leaves something to be desired, but if I do choose to use this method for my final leaflet I'll buy more paint so I can mix more and not be left with so many streaks.