Making patterns and bleached patterned papers

The previous chapter showed marks made on papers for each animal theme.  For this chapter I have shown mark makers and the effect made when used with bleach.

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Top image:foam fish stamp, a lace piece which did not work with bleach

second row: plastic embossed sheet, metal rasp, string fingerprint block, herringbone foam block

third row: foam cardboard and string block, feather foam stamp, nuts and bolts, linocut fish stamp

fourth row:magic sponge, didn't work, fruit net.

The most difficult aspect of printing with bleach was to ensure that not too much was used as the image spread on drying.  I had tried to use a milder 'cleanser' as bleach is not something I use but found the results disappointing so resolved to buy some bleach.  As I was concerned that the black tissue I had may have also been a problem I also dyed some white tissue with Quink.  A couple of the mark makers proved ineffective: the lace needed more pressure, I had previously used a printing press when printing this design;  the cardboard designs used too replicate human skin cross section collapsed under pressure and so felt the idea of monoprint as show in page 29 was a better option for taking inspiration from skin cross section

The results below show the impact of thick bleach on both types of paper.

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 As my heavy handed dipping of bleach had proved somewhat crude I decided to try a stitch pattern to control amount of bleach onto tissue.
While becoming stumped on the last part of Chapter 4 I had found an ammonite pattern which appealed.  I was also feeling anxious as I had not been doing stitching samples and the idea came, how about stitching a pattern on paper and dying through the paper.

The result of a shell pattern stitched, without thread,  is shown below:

 Again I overdid the bleach! Should show more patience...but liked the idea of the stitch marks perhaps, however, should consider a pricking on a firmer card as when making lace patterns.  I liked the idea that within the pattern there would be an option to put a variety of patterns within each section.
Now the task of stitching some samples!