Tag: abstract art

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!

as one book closes, another opens

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.

dyed paper things

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.

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There’s about 125 of them at last count, and already a few have found a home on today’s page a day page (more on that later!)

a re-work in progress

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.

snippets of recent

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…

cured with yellow

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!

how my week began

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:

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.

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