Day 14
of Book Three
of a Page a Day.
Post #100.
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Day 14
of Book Three
of a Page a Day.
Author: Mixy
artist, thing maker & idea magpie. I am making it all up, one bit at a time.
Day 14
of Book Three
of a Page a Day.
Dylusions
Big love for Dylusions Ink sprays!
The book is now fully colored, and drying. It’s quite soggy, so might take a while but I’ll post up some pics soon. Really pleased with how it’s turning out 🙂
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re-inkification
Remember the thing with the wet scrumpled tissue paper? And the thing with the printer manual?
So I guess you know where we’re going from here!
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paper cuttings
More cut out shapes from dyed paper, glued, then re-cut with scalpel, then the re-cut out bits re-glued, and again…
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2-stage ink dripping
Having let the first ink drippings dried, stage 2:
And a swish of water, then a bit more for good measure
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This thing
The things with the dyed paper, the cut outs and torn edges, the outlining and the doodlings. The purple and orange thing that’s a little shiny in places. This thing here…
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more than just dripping, part one
It’s no secret, I’m a bitova Inkaholic.
So the dregs in the bottom of the ink jar, and all that drying ink on the rim? Jar Printing!
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dripping with extra texture
Another part of the process with the now familiar printer manual: Scrumpling!
Both before and after the inky stage, scrumpling the paper helps it dry unevenly
Uneven drying makes for gorgeous textural effects.
With sharp folds the fibres of the paper is damaged just enough to make it super absorbant, and make for darker lines and patterns.
The inks run to and through the chanels formed by the creases
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drifty
Drifty? Yeh, kinda… a change of pace from the manic snipping and sticking of the last few days! Inky drips and doodles, with over-squiggles in the latest fave tool: the dead biro!
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unlikely treasure
..buried in the paper recycling box (I was scuffling about for envelopes and scraps to dye) – when I found this:
No. Haven’t uploaded the wrong photo.
It is the manual to my faithful old printer. (11 years old, some bits have fallen off, but still working, I digress.)
The treasure is in the 7/8 of the pages which are printed in languages foreign to me, almost entirely text-based, on nice absorbant paper.
I love using printed paper especially when the forms of the words aren’t distracted by their meaning.
All it wants is some color…Beginning in drips
Water and ink, drippier and drippier
Then the bit where my inner-kid gets all excitable
Gasp!
Ta-da!
A good swish of dylusions yellow to soften the purples, then on to the next page while this dries!
I’ll post more as they dry and develop 🙂
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