When I revived the two jars of paper pulp I decided to put the thicker paper into a paper-making bath and to colour the tissue pulp in a small bowl. I used the black Brusho I'd used previously but at double strength in the hope of getting a deeper shade of blue and yes this was successful to a degree: the pulp is now a mid-denim blue, but lacks clarity. Maybe it isn't possible to create a clear colour in this way, but only by applying diluted Brusho to a dried and finished piece of paper.
The experiments below show how I got on applying the coloured pulp with a spoon. The results are rather blobby and I noticed that the water and paper pulp hadn't combined very well, also that I hadn't washed the dye out well enough resulting in blue shadows between the blue areas, so that there was no clear contast of blue and white.
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| 4:4:20 |
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| 4:4:21 |
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| 4:4:22 |
Sample 4:4:22 is more interesting: I was able to add width to the first paper sheet by overlapping colour and white sections giving the appearance of disintegration as the blue paper pulp ran out.
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| 4:4:23 |
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The two samples above show writing in blue paper pulp on freshly made paper. Sample 4:4:24 shows more controlled writing, both achieved by spooning the paper pulp.
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