paper dying – Page 2 – Mixy's Art Blog

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

paper dying – new techniques!

I really thought that stash of dyed papers would last a long time, but supplies are getting low, so last night I began another batch, and in so doing I’ve streamlined the process a bit.

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It’s the same ‘lasagna‘ of paper and ink/dye, but instead of leaving it to marinade for ages, once it had a good soaking (1-2 hrs I guess) I spread the bits out on some more ‘scrap paper’. I used a super-cheap watercolor pad – v low quality and rubbish for painting on – but nice and absorbant, so just the job for this! Given a good squash (I stood on it, then danced about a bit) the colors soak through to the watercolor pad the bonus of more dyed paper than I’d bargained for + far quicker drying time. Result!

They’re drying right now – will show you the pics tomorrow. Meanwhile I’m planning another batch in different colors. I’m torn between blues, greens and purples next… What d’you reckon, folks? 🙂

gathering momentum: destination unknown

But who cares? it’s the journey that’s the fun bit, who cares where we end up!

The dyed paper things are growing and multiplying.

(They kept me up really late last night …Love them, but they’re so moorish!) 😉

more things with dyed paper

I found myself cutting and gluing again last night… exploring the contrast with cut and torn edges

(apologies for the not so good photo quality.)

dyed paper things, part 2

Pondering what will become of the dyed paper things, the first few were homed straight away in the new page a day book.

I can feel some greetings cards coming on. And maybe a long tall collage in this sorta shape. And some other stuff too!

happy accidents in colors

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

tissue paper runs!

Just a little by the way from usual antics, you know how the color in tissue paper runs when it gets wet?

Scrumpled up and spritzed with water, then squished between sketchbook pages and left to dry overnight got these results

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I used dark and mid blue tissue, so as well as staining the book pages they also added color to each other and have gone in the collage-scraps box …. another time I think I’ll try this on watercolor paper, got a feeling that’ll be a cool effect.