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12 in 12 update

Unbelievably the first 1/2 of the year is almost through! As is the 12 in 12 book.

It’s a while since last update, so here’s the tail end of May’s (Blue/Green) pages:

Which nicely lead into June’s (Green) pages:

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.)

a week of new pages!

So where have the last 7 days gone? swept away with life n stuff. But each one was at least partly captured on its page in the new book

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!

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!)

art being ephemeral…

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…until the book shuts and it’s squished back down to 2 flat dimensions! 😉

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…