Re: [BKARTS] BOOK_ARTS-dirt paper

[Christine Cassidy <christinecassidy@xxxxxxx>]

This reminds me, you can actually make your own pastels.  The stuff  
has to be ground extremely fine of course, but you can do it.  I  
forget at the moment where I saw the pastel making stuff but a Google  
search would find it I'm sure.  For that matter, you could use  
acrylic mediums, such as gel medium as a vehicle for the dirt.

Christine


On Jun 13, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Anita Garza wrote:
> As part of my thesis project three years ago, I too, wanted to do dirt
> inclusion in my 4' X 6' sheets of paper. The rich red dirt from my  
> father's
> home town was the inspiration for it. I did two things, I included  
> a ratio
> of dirt to pulp and sprayed the sheets, afterwards, when the sheets  
> were
> still damp, I rubbed the surface of them with the dirt. Since the  
> dirt was
> very rich in minerals and clay, it almost felt as if I was using a  
> pastel
> stick on the surface. What I was left with was a nice clay color  
> portion of
> my sheet which I then sealed with wax to give it some translucency.
>
> I also have a colleague who uses cement and clay as inclusions for  
> his paper
> and he has done it with much success as well. Depending on the  
> inclusion,
> the result of the textures are pretty varied.
>
> Anita M. Garza
>
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > As a collector of dirt (I've always wanted to start a letter like  
> > that) I
> > was recently sent 100+ or so samples from around the world as  
> > birthday
> > gifts.  I've taken a bit from each sample in the collection to form a
> > witches' brew of world- and states-wide dirt, intending to somehow  
> > send a
> > bit out to everyone who has sent something my way.  The initial  
> > idea was to
> > make a sand-paper-type object, but then I thought of incorporating  
> > the dirt
> > directly in the paper itself.  For the technical aspects of making  
> > the paper
> > the dirt sample could be quite small--a 10mm would be about the  
> > smallest
> > working sample--or quite large, depending on the paper-making  
> > process.
> > I'd be very curious and grateful to know if anyone had any  
> > thoughts on this
> > project?
> >
> > Thanks, and best regards,
> >
> > John Ptak

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