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It's not just black and white. |
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You get to use fun tools like eyedroppers and whisks made out of broom straws. |
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A tray of water with paint floating on the surface is more fun than a laptop.
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You do it while standing up and moving around. |
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Even the flawed pieces are great. |
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You can turn out a lot of pieces in an afternoon. |
The above photos are from a Turkish marbling or "ebru" workshop at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Below is some of the paper I recently worked on at Cave Paper. While I didn't form the sheets, I did apply all the walnut crackle onto the sheets. This paper is spectacularly beautiful in person. It would make a gorgeous journal cover for....writing.