The Origami Forum

Hi everybody. i came with a big question.
I want to fold a little model, and I've been a little hesitant about the color i'm going to use. Finally I've decided with one, but that I have absoultely no idea how to make it. Originally its a black paper, bit that reacts quite violently with glues. When using diluted(?) white glue, paper just becomes a little purplelish, but when using adhesive stick,the paper burns horribly to some red/yellow weird color. Horrible till now. I was thinking that my paper could have the purplelish base color, but that above it has some organic pattern with the burned color from adhesive stick. Spunds a little crazy, I know, but if its analyzed a little bit it can't be impossible, just a bit tricky. The probles is that I dont know those tricks. ¿How then would be possible make a tissue foil paper have two colors, a dark base and an organic pattern covering of light color, without increasing thickness too much and with an students budget?

One idea is to add coloring to a single sheet of tissue paper on one side. I took Mark Kennedy's class on paper dying at the OUSA convention with some great results (it was tons of fun, too). The method he taught was to mix paint with rubbing alcohol (I forget exactly what kind of paint-it might have been acrylic or some watercolor with a plasticizer that makes it permanent) to thin it, then apply it with a damp sponge (sponges absorb better when wet). You can use the sponge, especially if it has a textured pattern on it, to get some very neat organic effects.