Tea Bags plus

As a follow on from the post about teabags

I have continued to experiment

These lovelies are done the same except 

in one batch I had not cleaned the silicon sheet

and this gave me some lovely marks 

So I decided to do that deliberately

using avocado ink 

modified with washing soda

some of the marks seen here are

from a little of the ink mixed with egg yolk 

on the silicon sheet itself and

the darker redder ones 

are from the ink dripped in between the layers

I love the end look

But the question is can I paint on them!!!!

Not yet, these two are on the plainer bases

The First two faces for 2020

 221 Vanessa

222 Irene

Both in egg tempera using only bone black, titanium white, indigo blue and yellow ochre. 

Incidental Marks 4

Book 4

Front Cover

Back Cover

Tape Bound Spine

Enigmatic Interior 

Strange Marks

Lines

Blotches

Edges

Mysterious Scribblings

Points of Departure

Beginnings

This book is on a soft paper

with fibre inclusions

It is available in my

Etsy Shop

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Incidental Marks 2 & 3

Book 2

Front cover waxed for extra strength and

deliciousness

Back cover

Naturally dyed silk used for the tape binding

The exposed spine

yumsh pages

mysterious marks

Look or draw in to here

Book 3

Front cover all tied up

Spine

Mystery map

marks

spaces

islands

circles

blotches

blue or is it purple

more maps

red edge

contrast

definitely blue

I think this might be my favourite book so far.

Check them out

here

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Incidental Marks

Book of Incidental Marks

Over the next few days(hopefully)

I will be putting a series of books

in my Etsy Shop

These are all made from the paper

I place on my work table

and so form a type of diary

of what I have been working on

during that period of time

Some will be dated

earlier ones are not

These can either be left as they are

or

you can enter into a collaboration with me

by working into the pages

If you do that please

share

the results with me

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