Sunday was a splattery day
As I paint and create I usually listen to the radio.
Sometimes a word or phrase leaks out of the radio through me onto the page.
This often gets covered up in layers of color and stuff
But the phrase ‘uncontaminated with thought’ struck me as poignant to this project
So each time it began to drown in ink and paper I kept it afloat above the layers
Tag: ink
papery things
The dyed printer manual has really got me thinking about all the other redundant paper lurking in the house and office – future dying ideas………..
- All instruction manuals – speshly those ones relating to things long broken, gone or forgotten
- Phone directories; the Yellow Pages would be a fab base for warm-colored dyings
- Newspaper, magazines (but not the very glossy type – unless there’s time to give them a very thorough scrumpling to break the surface up)
- Old bills and receipts, tickets, shopping lists, that kinda stuff
- Paper bags
Added to previously explored and sucessfully played with……..
- Old envelopes
- Out of date manuals/instructions, insurance docs (they send me all this art paper every year!)
- Diary Pages – the calendar pages, the lists of international holiday dates and all the extra stuff that isn’t actual diary & the unused pages!
- Maps
- Sheet Music
- Misprints from the computer – y’know when it fails to feed the paper and you get the top inch on one page and the rest on another. Both of these!
Any more for the list? Yeh……there must be! All suggestions welcomed 🙂
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Splosh
Day 14
of Book Three
of a Page a Day.
Post #100.
Biggest thanks to all who stop by, you’re gving me so much inspiration, Big love to you all! 🙂
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Dylusions
Big love for Dylusions Ink sprays!
The book is now fully colored, and drying. It’s quite soggy, so might take a while but I’ll post up some pics soon. Really pleased with how it’s turning out 🙂
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re-inkification
Remember the thing with the wet scrumpled tissue paper? And the thing with the printer manual?
So I guess you know where we’re going from here!
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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
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more than just dripping, part one
It’s no secret, I’m a bitova Inkaholic.
So the dregs in the bottom of the ink jar, and all that drying ink on the rim? Jar Printing!
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dripping with extra texture
Another part of the process with the now familiar printer manual: Scrumpling!
Both before and after the inky stage, scrumpling the paper helps it dry unevenly
Uneven drying makes for gorgeous textural effects.
With sharp folds the fibres of the paper is damaged just enough to make it super absorbant, and make for darker lines and patterns.
The inks run to and through the chanels formed by the creases
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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.
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? 🙂
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So many, many layers
The page a day page/day parallel thing – they day resembles the page, the page resembles the day. Like the chicken and egg thing. Causality and whatnot.
This page went through so many incarnations.
Layer upon layer of indecisive confusion, unguided and unintentional.
Layers added, torn off, reglued on bits.
The page is quite dense and chunky now!
The day was complex, dense and chunky too 😉
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