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
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……………..
I left the Frisket Stencils overnight, and yesterday morning I unpeeled the results…
See what I mean about the deckled edges? See close up, there’s the trace of an outline where the colors bled under the stencil.
At a midway point in the process I added more stencils over the already colored page, it’s made a ghostly image
I also began cutting an alphabet stencil. I was playing about with the cut out letters……
The letters placed at the edge of the page were on flatter paper so weren’t so prone to under-bleed of the ink – slightly crispier clean edges!
I do love stencils, and after watching this vid from Julie Pritchard and Chris Cozens I was inspired to follow their technique using my own stencils. (I especially like the way they recycle the colors from the stencils onto tissue paper to reuse later on in collages)
So, I got myself some Frisket Film (if you’re shopping in the UK I can recommend Artifolk.)
Frisket is a low tack film that can be be cut to shape with scissors or craft knife, made especially for airbrush masks. (although I’m not air brushing, I’m using a spray bottle with dye.)
Used on a flat paper it sticks just enough to withstand leaks and dislodging, but on the bumpy lumpy surface of my sketchbook page it doesn’t have enough ‘cling’ to make a completely water-tight seal, but I’m happy with this – where the color oozes under it makes for a deckled edge to the stenciled lines.
Building up the layers is a lot of fun!
Dabbing the puddles of color to soak up excess liquid keeps it (slightly) under control!)
After letting it dry I added a couple more Frisket shapes, re-sprayed and a sprinkling of Brusho powder.
Check back later and I’ll show you how it developed from here!
Thursday’s page focused on utilising bits of the dyed paper through stacking n stitching, to exploring cut and torn shapes
As the cut out shapes from Sunday echo through the pages, Tuesday bore the same linear curves and disconnected egdes through which a glimpse of Thursday…
Much coloring, inking, paint splatting later, the page evolves through different color groups and combinations. A journey of a day! 🙂
When I was doing the paper dying thing I was using future pages of sketchbook to catch the drips.
Today this page came round. Pleasant in itself, but that was then. The nature of this is to be ephemeral, fleeting, evolving. This page belongs to today: time to change.
Skipping over the stages I forgot to photograph… then came the inky bit
What’s with white ink, then? I know, like dilute white paint. Just concept of ‘white ink’ doesn’t sit straight in my head. Anyways, white ink can be a bit milky, but dripping onto wet colored ink gives this effect. Can’t always guarantee inky splodge is dragon shaped 😉
The dragonyness left as he dried. But I think the idea of the shape got stuck in my head as I remembered I hadn’t done any cut outs for a while…
Back with the metaphors this book throws up: Y’know when the events of one day echo and reverberate, the memory creeps into the next few days? Such will be the next few pages!
More ink, sprayed, dripped, smudged…
integrating the stark whiteness from underneath, and stenciling its negative onto what will be next Tuesday’s page.
As the colors warmed up, it seemed to be wanting some gold. Metallic card stuck to the back of the page shines through.
…and photographing it!
As I type to you the final drippings and runnings of this page a doing their thing, which give me the chance to show you some more bits of page.
After scribbly ink and doodles I wanted to knock back some of the busy color and detail, which I did with a mix of acrylic and guache. Sliding and scraping with palette knife.
I wanted to liven up the texture, so used coarse pumice gel and – what’s to hand? – aha! leftover dyed rice! Then a swish of spray ink…
Only drying time will tell if the rice sticks, but even if it doesn’t, it’ll leave some nice rice-scars behind. Happy either way!
I love the way the wet media allow the pigments to travel, gather, collect together in bands. In these colors it reminds me a little of malachite
Last night I left the marinaded paper ready to sweat by the rad…
Today’s weather has supported my efforts by being quite cold, justifying use of central heating to warm room as well as dry my doings from yesterday.
Carefully unpeeling the layers to get some air flow, I then sorted then into heaps to finish drying and admire
Next stage is sort the ‘finished’ from the ‘not quite there yet‘, iron the former and carry on playing with the latter.
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