I made myself a grungy page by accident. I am sure I have owned up to the fact that I am not very good at brayering, in fact I would say I am pretty hopeless. A good page comes out very rarely and is usually under supervision when it does.
This page is brayered, is very grungy and I haven't a clue what colours of paint I put on it. Each new layer was to try to make it look better so I ended up with brown. I won't say "mud" because I think it is better than mud and parts of it look kind of rusty. I then put some large letters over the top with a brown ink.
Anyway, stuck with it I decided to use it and when I saw one of Jo's pages I loved the typewriter keys she had on it and she very kindly told me where to get the stamp from. Thanks Jo - I love this set. It shows where you put your hands when typing, with your thumb acting for the space bar, dividing it up into left and right hand. I once taught keyboard skills at school and had a one armed boy opt for the subject to examination level. Everyone tried to persuade him not to take the subject but he did and he managed quite well with special instructions for a one handed typist.
Also on the set are the letters of the alphabet, each one typed out five times to look as if they have been typed by a manual machine where the ribbon has clogged up the centre of some of the keys. I used to have something like Blutack that I rolled around the keys to lift the ink that had settled but quite often I had to pick it out with a pin. Funnily enough I enjoyed doing this. Am I strange? Anyway, you can see these letters down the bottom right hand corner and top left.
Friends had once again sent me some images and the top left and right are what were sent to me. I think the left one looks very old but the advertisement for the right one sounds older with its eighty keys! The final one is a Lou Collins stamp. One perfect half of a typewriter and one in silhouette. Both come with a background that fits around them but I chose to just fussy cut the typewriters out.
So that is it for my page for Art Journal Journey and my theme of 'type'. During my research however I did see some very peculiar machines.
