Painted paper towel with butterfly stamp.

Altered this painted paper towel in Photoshop before uploading. Could easily be used as a textured background in digital editing software projects.

grunge paper towel background in blues etc

Used this piece of paper towel to clean brushes and stamps. I plan on using the grunge look as a texture in part or whole for some of my Photoshop backgrounds.

White combed cotton with filter adjustments.

Scanned in this combed cotton then adjusted it with filter adjustments in Photoshop.

Lavender cheescloth grunge background.

I was dyeing some cheescloth and while still damp I placed it on card stock and ran a brayer over it. It left a grunge look which I like in certain applications or backgrounds. Enjoy.

Paper towel background orange, green and cream.

Cleaning my brushes and stamps again.
The bottom image was scanned in then a swirl filter applied with Photoshop.

Gold gesso from Daniel Smith

I painted the cream colored card-stock with Gold gesso from Daniel Smith. Then I folded it at random to give it some texture. Scanned it to my pc and adjusted it in Photoshop using levels.

Original watercolor then digitally altered backgrounds

I did this small watercolor of 3 floral sprigs. Scanned it into my pc then played with Photoshop.
Thought these would make unusual backgrounds in part or whole.

Ideals or is it wisdom!

This is from a very old music magazine. Thought it was worth sharing for it's wisdom!

Yellow and green background.

Don't even try to make any sense out of this - just cleaning my brushes and stamps again.

Green painted paper towel background.

Couldn't resist using the calligraphy brush to write this quote on the paper towel background. Enjoy!