In all the fun of creating Gunk Bird I forgot to show you page he landed in!
The hairy/fluffy paper leftovers from the page before set the scene
Cut out shapes echoed in white pen
Gold foil blended in with copper acrylic paint
Tag: handmade paper
for the love of paper
Isn’t there something irresistable about paper? this page is centred around play with handmade paper. Not made by me I hasten to add – that’s a game I haven’t played (yet)!
It lends itself so well to roughly torn edgery, and as I discovered this week, tearing it when wet makes for even fluffier edges. Now I don’t remember what this paper is made from, it’s (I beleive) Indian and has super-long fibres. I painted it with Koh-I-Noor dye paints then gently tore it while it was still soggy.
The contrast on the magenta page really ZINGS!
I did the cut-out thing with a scalpel, the out-cut-bits then glued on top making multi-levelled layered shape, surrounded by doodle. With some more of the hairy edged paper and dyed envelopes glued to the underside of the page to show through the cut out holes, the next page was starting to take shape too. But more of that later.
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