Yes sir, that's mummies folks; and while it may seem morbid given my current experiences, trust me - its not. I was an anthropology major in college and it still holds a great fascination for me. I am also finding myself to be a nacent story-teller and so we find ourselves here in the Iron Age. This page uses my current favorite technique of printing pictures on tissue paper and glazing them onto the page in layers. I then use inks to blend the edges into the background and each other. The leaves are real and yellow - but color enhanced a bit with inks and applied with incaustic to preserve and flatten them. Some of them are gilded with embossing powder. I was lucky enough to also find a few appropriate phrases on the page being altered. I think I'll not give out the story just yet since it looks like you can't read it on the picture. The page will be finished with some fiber work along the bottom edge, but that will go in at the very end with the rest of the book's embellishments so that they don't get accidently ruined as I work on other pages. Once burned - twice careful!
Here, too, is a pic of the cover of another book I finished on Saturday - where I used the crackle and this wonderful stuff called oil-paper that is crisp and translucent and has linen cords running through it. It has a window in the cover (talk about a nail-biter - I was so afraid I'd ruin it) where I used the same oil-paper but cut away the paper between the cords. That was a bit disappointing because the result looks a little like rolled up masking tape.
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