I have finished my tapestry and had time to have another play with the alcohol ink. I'm still not greatly enamoured of my results but enjoyed the time.
I bought myself a hand blower, from Zart Art, and it was much better than trying to blow the ink around with a straw - despite having the window open, I was taking deep breaths to blow and could feel it affecting me. Not so with the blower.
I found some very shiny paper this afternoon - I actually managed to do a bit of tidying up of my collage resources (not that you would notice, it isn't better looking in the room, it is just better organised). I don't know what the paper is or where it came from but I thought it might work. It did although it tended to curl a bit with the liquid. I also tried Yupo paper again and it takes the inks well.
I still don't know what I am trying to achieve but I had fun. There was a vague idea of getting some background for the collages but, so far, I have no inspirations from them.
I try to take notes but get too involved in what I am doing and forget. On some of them I sprayed the alcohol, some I just dropped some on, on others I used a blender which I bought when I got the blower. I also tipped the paper in different directions to get the ink to run. It dries very quickly and doesn't always do what I am hoping for. Note to self: check that you are putting the correct lid on the bottle - I got some mixed colours when I accidentally swapped the yellow and green lids - but I did have the chance to print some circles onto the paper, using the lids. I don't think they are particularly noticeable as the inks ran over them.
So here are some pictures.
