Revealing layers

As I have posted before I wanted to start looking at things wearing away creating and revealing new layers. Therefore I wanted to do a piece that would involve some parts being worn away from each other. I started by ripping pieces of newspaper and glueing the back of them, then sticking them straight down onto the page of my sketchbook. Whilst the glue was drying I covered the page with white paint, this emphasised the small ripples created by sticking layers of the newspaper down. I then began to peel the layers of newspaper back, this revealed a new print left onto the original page of my sketchbook. I was happy with how this looked, however I felt that it lacked something, it lacked a darker colour, by adding a darker colour it would make the new layers revealed look lighter therefore more noticeable. I chose to use graphite to add a darker colour to this piece. I thought that by lightly rubbing the charcoal over the ripples created in the page, it would highlight them as well as make the new layers created clearly stand out. To conclude truthfully, I dislike this piece. I feel that it doesn't show the layers enough that I wanted it to reveal. To improve this piece I could have used a dark background, then the newspapers would ripped back would have revealed untouched blackness, therefore creating a new layer. This would have worked much better than using a white background and I will definitely be recreating or trying out this piece again.