trekking round this learning curve
Embarking on a project like a page a day, without an aim in sight, more a stretch of the journey traveled in a new fashion, has to be done without expectations. I’ve doodled and made art since before I...
View Articlepink rice beginnings
Wednesday’s page started out with the results of playing with dye and rice. I poured rice onto the puddles of dye that’d spilled onto the page As the rice absorbed the water in the dye, the...
View Articledot dot dot …
I’m so glad I posted the beginnings of Wednesday, cos all trace of that pink ricey start are now hidden beneath layers of acrylic dots! Click to view slideshow. Using sequin waste (punchinella) as a...
View Articlevisual echos
Thursday’s page focused on utilising bits of the dyed paper through stacking n stitching, to exploring cut and torn shapes Click to view slideshow. The echoing shapes from previous pages are now just...
View Articlemore experiments with rice
This (Wednesday’s page) Plus this (salvaged dyed rice + hot water) Equals this (thickly heaped rice on dry paper – may try wet paper next time – sprayed with a little more ink for good measure) Plus...
View ArticleFrisket stencils part 2
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...
View ArticleSat urday
With the rest of the alphabet stencils cut (ok… v, w, x, y, z aren’t done yet… it’s a bit fiddly and I wanted to get on and play!) today’s page is all about sat sat saturday… Layering up the letters,...
View ArticleMesh Mess
Y’know that sticky mesh tape stuff you stick plaster board together with? Yeh, sure you do! Here it is… It’s meant for healing up wounds in walls n ceilings, but I have a much better use for it. Made...
View Articleout of the sketchbook!
I’m so enjoying the page a day project, and the 12 in 12 (updates on that one soon) but it has meant that not so much art has been going on outside of the sketchbooks. So I decided to venture out of my...
View Articleday last-but-one
While I was playing with my new inks last week, I developed some of these experiments on Thursday’s and Friday’s pages the milky opacity of white ink dripped in transparent colored ink details the runs...
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