While focusing on the punk/new romantic segment of my project I thought about the paper I was using. Ian showed me some paper that another student was using. She had screwed normal paper up and soaked it in water and black ink and let it dry to make this grayish rough scrappy looking paper full of tears. There was something very punk about the paper and this made me think that it would make a good material to use for my images I'm making. 

I made a range of the black paper, varying the amount of ink, water and tearing I did to make different pieces. I also used a similar technique but used different coloured ink  instead of black to make paper I may use for my Glam/ New Romantic based subculture images. 

So far I haven't actually used any of the paper I've made in the way I'd use normal paper instead I've experimented with sticking the paper over the top of drawings I've done instead or working it into the background.

In this piece I've stuck the paper on as the girl's top.