On friday I came to the final page of the page a day project. And the first page of a new book!
I’ve downsized for practicality – but every day has a double page spread so in terms of square inchage I have a little more area to cover daily.
Page 1/day 1 came with it’s first happy accident: doodling initially in yellow rollerball pen (effectively invisible in artificial light) sprayed ink through stencil and finding the ink running round the doodled lines.
When I was doing my paper dying some weeks back, it was without any real plan as to what comes next. Then last night I found myself making these.
This time last year I was just finishing a year’s foundation course in art and design.
For the end of year show I made a textile sculpture, but the design wandered off a long way from my original idea.
Although i liked the elements of it, I wasn’t happy with the overall look.
These are bits of a re-made version. It will be a wall-hung sculpture in 5 parts. 3 are nearly complete, the other 2 are nearly started.
I’ll post some more as it moves on.
Beginning in my usual fashion: enthusiastic tearing and shredding of the scraps from which latest textile project will be made!
Early days, but it’s taking shape
Not sure yet if it’s going lampshade or window hanging/blind kinda thing, but what I do know is it needs to be backlit!
Y’see? Get those yellows glowing!!
More soon! 🙂
As this page a day project is winding up towards the last few pages, I thought I’d share with you what’s been going on; recent days have made these recent page snippets…
Can’t help myself, every day gotta get a fix of colors. Colors in combinations that don’t always sit comfortably. Colors in big splashy forms. Speckles n freckles you only see close up….
I’ve been dying threads and fabrics for a project I’ll show you soon, and in turn I’ve had some happy accidents I think you might like.
Here are the dyings…
Having given them a good long soak in procion dye I left them to dry out, and naturally didn’t want any off the delicious color juice go to waste. So back to the fruits of the paper dying project
The cord made especially interesting tigery patterns
Sometimes the pigments react, separate, and make wonderful patterns
As one day merges into another, so the theme of a page drifts through those either side. I’ve noticed this more and more as the book goes on.
(Starting in mid March I’ve probably only got about a week’s worth of pages to go. Three months have flewn!)
The past week I’ve been more than a bit preoccupied with paper cut outs. I’ve been using up some of the dyed paper
Repeating shapes unite the pages. Contrasting colors separate them.
Layers on layers, lifting edges, like leaves.
I’m always striving to find new directions of creativity to explore (given that I can’t settle on any preference, might as well try as much as I can find).
Last weekend I spent learning the art of machine embroidery from the very inspirational Gina Ferrari. I’d only ever dabbled with this sort of machining before but by the end of the weekend course I’d produced a few samples and things, including this.
Not to mention full-to-the-brim with new ideas! 😀
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