Exposing photos

Leading on from my previous post, I felt that one page of photography wasn't enough. Therefore I did some more. This picture was off a wall, in which broken cement covered all over it. I decided that the picture should be in black and white because I knew I would be using a brown paper to cover it. Instead of revealing the whole picture, this time I wanted to reveal different parts of the picture. Making the people looking through my sketchbook stop and really focus on this, trying to figure out what they are looking at. I used a thin light brown paper, it easily ripped which was really helpful because it meant that I could create lots of different holes throughout the piece. I started by glueing the picture down, then adding the brown paper on top, I then added dabs of water, and with my sander I started to rub away contrasting parts of the brown paper. Although the picture was revealed I wasn't pleased with the paper. I used a thin, brown type of paper, so when I added the picture underneath it, the bright white photo paper showed up. However I had only noticed this once I had stuck the paper down. It took the attention away from the unveiling picture. In addition to the paper being basically see through, the paper created a bizarre texture when sticking it down with glue. I normally adore texture, but I did not adore this. It created a childish looking ripples around the edges of the paper. Overall, I feel on the fence about how this piece turned out, I was happy with the way the picture was revealed but felt disheartened by odd texture created. If I was to re-create this later on in my sketchbook with different photos, I would definitely use better paper.