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.
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…
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.
Remember the page with the tissue paper runnings? Well, yesterday it came round!
While I loved the patterns it made, the blue/grey/mauve colors just aren’t me. Yellow is the cure-all color, blending these hues to the green/orange warms shades I love. I used dilute Brusho ink in a spray bottle to brighten and warm the colors, and from there it was just a bit of collage, block printing and doodling away from complete!
It’s a funny thing, doing this daily page, and the more I get into the routine of doing it, the more I’m getting out of it. I’m seeing it increasingly as a visual reference to my daily life. This is how my week is looking so far…
in detail:
Yesterday I had to go to the art store. They had some end of line acrylics on sale. It would have been churlish not to help them clear this stock, so I came home with more stuff than I bargained for. But hey!
This is Sunday’s page, I just had to revisit it last night to add these spots of Indian Yellow, and I had to photograph them before they inevitably get squished under the weight of future pages! 🙂 I’ll show you the rest of this page later. It’s one of my faves so far 😀
I like to have a boundary to work within, edges to bounce around in. Be it a color, a physical size of substrate, or a shape.
Saturday I chose spots.
Gathering up some spot making tools (corks & sequin waste* mostly) I set about spottings!
*sequin waste – the stuff from which sequins have been punched & can be got in craft stores. Also known as ‘punchinella’, but I really don’t like that word. Yeh, I know… but there are some words I just don’t like 😉
Y’huh, I know it’s Tuesday… but don’t we all get those weeks that won’t kick-start properly?
Ok, so I’m up n running now! Reflecting on the latest page-a-day pages….
I took advantage of Satuday’s sunshine to photograph my pages in the garden (reminded as I type this as the rain pours outside my window!), so Saturday’s page with the typewritten hi, was only just begun. Just as soon as the lighting conditions permit I’ll bring you up to speed with the latests 😀
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