deconstructing the marker
project: Object | Image i started taking apart markers for this project and have become fascinated! first, i cut the plastic tube of the marker below the tip with a box cutter and then i can remove the inner tube which is a thin plastic casing that holds the ink-soaked felt. that part i cut open after squeezing any leftover ink onto paper. the colorful blobs, bleed throughs, and drips are the result. i've been cutting those out and will layer them back together. as for the guts of the marker i will be felting! this is what i have so far....
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!!
We poured big 22" x 30" sheets and made them thick for the cover...
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...
we'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!
