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
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a day in a page, part 3b
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…. 😉
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a day in a page, part 3
Here’s kinda where we left off earlier, the coffee has soaked in and the general consistency of the page is still damp and squodgy.
Time for paint! Inner Kid is impatient with all this waiting, drying, waiting, so we press on:
Paint and drippy ink. And more purple again!
More splatter! More messy!
More!!!
In a bid to tame the splattering we meditate a moment on the yellow ink and coffee-ness of tomorrow’s page. I love this a lot. Even if nothing else comes of this weekend, the ink + coffee thing is going to be replayed!
But it doesn’t do the trick, the splattering amps up…
…………………..can this page be saved??? It’s looking kinda out of control to me……………..
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a day in a page, part 2
With a good thick layer of textures heaped onto the page, we really wanted it to look … well… less of a shambles
and splattering, squirting, dripping and flicking color at it seemed the most fun way to proceed.
Much love for the infinite ways that different materials soak, absorb, repel, or seem indifferent towards the colors thrown at them…
merging and reacting…separating and absorbing.
I can suddenly see a composition of sorts, a way forward, a ‘design’ in mind…
But Inner Kid gets twitchy:
Too much the orangey yellow sameness. I need purple! Purple and scissors and curly edges. And I need them now!
More! More curly edges!
Yuh. So looks like we’re headed in a new direction again…. cool….
Mutant Space Geckos!
……………………..to be continued! …………………….. 😉
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a day in a page
me and the inner kid had some chores this morning, but we tempered this by including a ‘raid the stationery drawer’ moment in the office (old sticky labels… MINE! semi-dryed up highlighter pens…MINE!. We got nice fresh walnut bread and bananas on the market, we got chocolate…
Back home to play! Now!
Texture demands IK. Any thing – don’t care what – I just need to tear stuff and glue stuff. Now!
Within easy reach of where we’re sat there are stashes of texture. There’s packing paper, cartridge paper (IK had been playing with a compass… so quite a few pages of pencil circles. Had a feeling these would find a use one day)
Strips of off-cut fabric and edges from stuff. A strip of hideous flourescent pink nylon net…
all those little snippings of thread… some, they’re like, less than an inch, little wisps.
We need Color!!!
See the cool ink-squirting device we devised?
(Yes, this is very top heavy and unstable. Yes, it would cause mess and possibly tears and swearing if knocked over. Proceed with caution. Thankfully we managed not to let this happen. The beast is dismantled and disarmed until next he is needed.
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Contrast (with buttons)
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the sum of its parts
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Context is everything
Edit: – I had meant to post this post before the previous post, not after it. D’oh! I think typing the final sentence triggered unconcious mis-postings!
last sunday I arrived home after a weekend away. Spangled from another 6 hour car journey as a passenger. Brain troubled and ringing from uncomfortable emotions. Looking back at the page from Sunday I can see this reflected.
I’m someone who needs to spend a proportion of my time alone each day, and after 3 days of perpetual company I feel … well, odd. Out of place with myself. To me, that’s how this page looks amongst the rest of the book.
(Part of me wanted to leave out this page and skip straight on to Monday. But life doesn’t work that way, and neither does my project 😉 )
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bigger brighter monday
spaces
“Take care of the spaces, and the lines will take care of themselves”
from Practical knowledge for all by Sir John Hammerton c1950
On seeing with a pencil. Drawing is a means of education, of training hand and eye. It quickens the powers of perception and gives scope to the inventive faculties. It trains the eye to accuracy in observation, and the mind to attention, comparison, reflection and judgement
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