book arts at Hook Pottery Paper

for the past couple days i've been working in Andrea Peterson's studio finishing a book, Anamorpho.  yesterday we beat a cotton rag and recycled paper blend and added pigment to warm it and a denim thread for hints of blue.  the original color was a pale gray and after we added the pigment it became bubble gum colored!  we mixed the two and got this pale purply pink... garbage can of fiber!!

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We poured big 22" x 30" sheets and made them thick for the cover... IMG_7204 IMG_7206 IMG_7207

remember my "pink pages" post!?  the pink pages will be bound into a book soon!  i've been going back into some of those with water-based markers and wheat paste.  here they are drying...IMG_7221 IMG_7222we're emptying the dryer tonight and i'll be adding text to the pages this afternoon.  tomorrow will be binding and finishing the cover!

 

 

pink pages

   

 

the paper is cotton rag with a handful of blue jean and colored pink with red and burnt umber pigments.  the images are recycled from another project involving collage and image transfer onto white cotton rag paper.  i used natural dyes made from elderberries (purplish ink) and beets (pinkish).  i also used some cheap, washable markers, which is the bleeding color that you see.

still deciding how to assemble the pages into a book...

many more pictures to come!

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