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4 pages in Portuguese

Remember the dyed printer manual? With a little tearing, folding, stitching and gluing, here’s what’s become of 4 pages in Portuguese……

Happy endings

Ingredients:

Paper. I can recommend a HP940C printer manual, but guess anything made out of paper would do just as well 😉
Procion dye. Super vivid colors. I used Magenta and Yellow.
Brusho. (Or any ink). I chose Brusho for it’s intense colors
Spray inks – like dylusions or Ranger color wash. Or any ink in a spray bottle
Water – spray bottle or brushed on to merge colors
About a week for inter-page drying and adding ink/dye to the uncolored bits. Building up the colors in stages prevents murky colors
Sunshine and a washing line for quicker drying (optional)
Suspended expectations. This project steers itself!

Here are some of the results…….

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(More on how this came into being here)

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 🙂

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

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!

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

unlikely treasure

..buried in the paper recycling box (I was scuffling about for envelopes and scraps to dye) – when I found this:

No. Haven’t uploaded the wrong photo.

It is the manual to my faithful old printer. (11 years old, some bits have fallen off, but still working, I digress.)

The treasure is in the 7/8 of the pages which are printed in languages foreign to me, almost entirely text-based, on nice absorbant paper.

I love using printed paper especially when the forms of the words aren’t distracted by their meaning.

All it wants is some color…Beginning in drips

Water and ink, drippier and drippier

Then the bit where my inner-kid gets all excitable

Gasp!

Ta-da!

A good swish of dylusions yellow to soften the purples, then on to the next page while this dries!

I’ll post more as they dry and develop 🙂