...I'm supposed to be purging, but when there's white paper involved, look what can happen!
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| Acrylic ink on printer paper |
Here's the story: I've been avoiding, postponing, deferring, delaying, evading, circumventing, skirting, sidestepping, or ducking the purge. I've been procrastinating for the last ten days years. Who really, truly wants to do a deep clean in the studio?!
A deep clean means the task of splitting old-style continuous form paper (for use with dot-matrix printers) into useable pieces has been neglected and then rescheduled at least 37 times. It was the last bit of paper in my large white paper container, and it's been screaming at me for such a long time that I am near-deafened. At least that's what I tell John when he complains that I'm not listening.
So I started ripping
and tearing
until all the side strips were removed, when I could then start splitting, page by page, by flippin' page.
Now I have a fabulous pile of printer paper or paper for printing (are you thinking what I'm thinking? Painted paper and Gelli prints are SO fun!).
And of course, all those side strips have to turn into something. Perhaps they'll be part of another 'Expat' folded book; they certainly fit the strangeness factor.
There were a few spoiled pages from the process, so I crumped them thoroughly and then sprayed with water. Liberally covering them with painty stuff was a blast.
Want a closer look at some of the other results?
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| Fluid acrylics topped with India Ink |
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| India ink on vellum (a stray bit tucked in there from somewhere?) |
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| India ink on continuous feed paper |
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More India ink topped with acrylic ink...don't you think this looks like a crime scene?
Maybe I've been reading too many murder mysteries over the holidays! |
Now I know I'm not the only one who procrastinates, and I'm betting you can add to the list of words for it in the second paragraph. What's your favourite? Lollygagging, perhaps? Let me know in the comments - I
NEED more words for this pastime because I'm becoming first-rate at it, and need to write the book (when I have the inclination).
