Arty Zine - Basketweave on Black

After making a couple of zines recently that involved experiments with paper strip weaving, I just completed this one. It has the weaving over the entire substrate (black paper) followed by decorating it with conplementary-colored painted paper circles and glitter glue.

This was my first arty zine (without words) using the black paper as a substrate, and I love how the colors "pop" because of the contrast. It wouldn't look nearly as good on a white background.

That said, thumbing through the folded zine, the page spreads are pretty. But I actually prefer looking at the flat version because you can see the weave in full. Isn't it fun?

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Cay Denise

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