Kura Prophetic Messenger (Part 6)

July 2020

Hand coloring the scroll!

I decided early on that I was going to hand color the scrolls and not try to print and register multiple blocks, too risky. Plus this would give each a uniqueness and I would have way more control over the subtleties. I found these awesome, albeit expensive, water color pencils at Wet Paint. They were said to have museum quality an archival longevity. Who knows. I liked them a lot. Painting was fun and I got better as I went. Gold leaf? Yah, it’s cool as hell, but it is sort of a nightmare. You LIT-rally have to cease to breathe. So totally worth it though.

Now it was time to start to assemble these things. We had the adhesive tape and Jeff was kind enough to make us this really cool jig type deal that was going to help us keep everything STRAIGHT as an arrow. The paper has to be so right or every time you roll and unroll it, it is going to move around and bear up the paper. Mean while Jeff had started to deliver the scrolls as well. They were beautiful, so much so that I wanted him to stagger the delivery so that perfect cherry scrolls were not just laying around my inky shot! It worked out well. It was a challenge but Madeline and Lucian had perfected the gluing and rolling of the pagesby the time they got to the second scroll. So 34 pages for each scroll, it was a lot of time and I had to continue to tell them to slow down. They nailed it.

I have been working non stop, straight, ask any of my friends… “dude, I can’t, not until this scroll is done.” Well dang, I think we are here. Can this be? I did it? Every time I look at it I am floored at the power that compels me to do what I do.