This has been a really cool journey. Marrying these three mediums, really six (amate, mulberry, copper and glass, acrylic and watercolor) is like watching several families unite. The bottom layer is the smooth mulberry paper which holds the opaque acrylic color fields. On the amate layer I mostly do a wash of the acrylic paint so it is as though the paint is rising up through the paper from the layer below. It is really two paintings done in tandem with each other. I have to constantly put them together and take them apart to keep the geometry intact so when the pieces are united it is seen as only one piece of art. Everything has to line up with precision despite the tendencies of the paper wanting to bend and flex with the water in the paint. I do not fight with the mediums. If they want to flex then I let it do that. I think it looks cool to be able to see below the holes in the amate to get a glimpse of the mulberry paper painting below. That is marriage in a way. It is also a way that I can honor the paper makers who created the pieces I get to make art from because I do not have the paper making capability (especially amate paper!)