Monday 6 May 2019

Eco Paper Dyeing

 After boiling up some watercolour paper with bits of rusty metal, I was hoping for something a bit more interesting than these results. The marks here are from a piece of rusty metal aviary wire, with bits of vegetation sandwiched between the pages.
 This one had a Tibouchina flower sandwiched with a large oak leaf.  The deep colour of the flower is interesting, but the outline is very indistinct and the oak leaf very pale.
This is the best of the batch, a better outline of the flower, and the blue colour has interestingly enough migrated under one leaf of the spray of leaves. I'll over dye the rest of the pages as they are very disappointing in colour and imagery.

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