Old Pages

I borrowed a few pages out of an old damaged book recently, thinking I'd play around with some embossing powder and create a few backgrounds.

I picked each page by how aesthetically pleasing its layout of paragraphs appeared, rather than paying any particular attention to the words...

...and now, having read the top line of each page, I think I could have chosen a little more wisely:

Page 1: "Her son, your grandchild, has been killed outright."

Page 2: "... he felt the heavy doughy feeling of dread in his guts."

and to save the best for last:

Page 3: "... to regurgitate its cropful of rotten carrion for its young."

Those three snippets don't really bring to mind the nicest images for artworks now, do they? I may have to try a bit of crafty obscuring in a few places I think! 

I haven't decided what I'm going to paint on top of them yet, so for now they are taped to my studio wall, fluttering in the breeze, until I figure out what comes next.

Comments

[Brochure Printing]

Interesting! What inspired you to use an embossing powder? And where did you buy one? :D Sorry, I'm asking too many questions.