Apologies for the poor photo quality. Better to follow when me, camera, art & daylight are in same place @ the same time!! đ
Remember the watermarked dyed paper ?
This week I’ve been playing with ink (quite a lot!) So it followed that where water does one thing, ink should do similar but with more colorful results!
I used Pebeo Colorex ink (Chartreuse. My fav color de jour!) they have a real glowing transparency and mouth-wateringly rich color! On pre-scrumpled paper they run deliciously through the landscape of the paper’s surface.
The quilt-making (more on that later) is my current obsession, and the urge to stitch is cropping up everywhere!
All that giddy excitement from last weekend (or some such excuse) meant I’ve not kept you updated on the page a day project – but I’ve not been so remiss as to let it slide!
Ready for a 10 day/page binge? Ok, here they come!
Day 29 (chronologically this day fell between Contrast (with buttons) and Quality Time)
Onward and upward to day 30!
Over the last couple of years, my perspective has shifted. Like after an epiphany, I began to see differently. Expectations and assumptions either altered or vanished.
I’ve always enjoyed the process, creating, painting, etc-ing…. but inevitably it would go wrong and be set aside (that paper/fabric/material etc was expensive/so nice before I ruined it… for these reasons I can’t through it away. Haunted by a residual value… It must remain as a warning not to repeat this mistake. It must fester. It can sit there stewing in guilt, shame, regret). Weeks, months, years would pass. These ghosts of ideas would move house with me. Boxed up past failures.
Art school taught me to question these feelings, the judgemnents I made. Finally I found out why I’d kept so many of these past attempts: they weren’t wrong, they just weren’t finished!. They took a detour from the path I’d imagined for them, but that didn’t mean their journey was over.
Through these ‘new eyes’, I see possibility in so many places. This week I’ve been playing with water – as bits of dyed paper lie about my work space, often splashed and used to dry wet brushes, I came to notice how the dried watermarks disrupted the pigments of the dye/ink. This had to be investigated further…..!
The moral to this story? Keep playing! Keep on swimming! đ
The disparate parts of today’s page are beginning to merge and sit comforatbly in each other’s company.
The only things we need now are the doodles
Light and Dark – Black and White – We Need To Doodle!!
…………………….and now to bed! G’night all X
Sorry folks, unkind to leave you dangling.
Dangling?
Yes! Here – on the brink of painted catastrophe!
….daubing and splashing… still no idea where this is going now…. it’s just so busy, so freeform jazz, so focus-less.
Enough! cries IK. I need new and I need different! I need solid edges and flat color! I need Spots!
If only the page weren’t so darned soaking wet…..
…aided by dabbing with a scrap of dyed paper drying time elapses…. (time to type to you) …we wait
still not what you’d call dry, but enough to stick stickers, and a bit more paint…
Time for the papery things we made earlier. They want some more blending in… but that’ll be after some more drying time. Til then…. đ
It’s August Holiday weekend, just about 24 hours into my holiday.
From finishing work on Friday through to Tuesday morning, I am off duty from day-to-day doings and beings.
I’m staying home, and I’m having some quality time with someone very dear to my heart: my Inner Kid.
We are both very excited about this.
Beginning last night, we sat down and surveyed the chaos. What to do first? Barely time to catch my thoughts and IK yells “Paper! Paper! Tearing and folding, snipping, concertina-ing, gluing, stitching, snippetty snippetty….” and then we suddenly had a little heap of these
We stay up late, we listen to the radio…
and the papery things get more intricate and fiddly
We stay up later still, eating biscuits and reading. Listen to the ideas bubble away in the background. We sleep and dream.
In the morning we go back to play. IK: Let’s make holes! Find the stabby-awl-thing and make holes to stitch the things with!! Now!
Yes! Like this! no idea why or what for but gotta make this new thing bigger and more thing-ful!!
And more directions! It needs to go in more directions!!
Yay! Now it needs a button!
………………….to be continued………………… đ
Page 23: Ephemeral Gecko makes his first appearance in the page a day book!
Nestled amongst the snippets of color….
winding his way through the stitches…
he is camoflaged in the scene.
But those papery toes are leading him onwards and upwards
to adventures yet to come.
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