Continuing with the theme of exploring images based on the Silk Road, I have recently experimented with using watercolour paint on book pages (with the book pages taken from a 1950s Tibetan travel book). The pages were treated with gesso before the water colour was applied. The use of the gesso was intended to simulate the creation of a palimpsest (defined as a parchment from which text has been scraped/otherwise removed to create a new surface for reuse). The watercolour behaves in a very fluid, almost oil paint like way when applied to the gessoed pages.
