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My cat knocked over a full bottle of black ink onto my March spread yesterday
I had to carefully blot the whole mess with paper towels, which left a weird, blurry ghost of my weekly layout that I'm now calling 'abstract art' and rolling with it, but has anyone found a good way to salvage a page after a major spill?
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taylor_patel4mo ago
Ugh, I feel this so hard - I had a coffee spill turn my entire weekly spread into a brown swamp last year and I just had to scrap the whole page (the worst feeling). White gel pen is definitely the way to go, it gives the whole mess a cool intentional vibe that nobody has to know was just panic damage control.
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the_nancy5mo ago
Turn it into a haunted house theme for October. Your ghost layout is just early. Honestly, I'd probably trace over the blurry lines with a white gel pen to make it look intentional, call it a 'negative space' experiment, and never speak of the ink bottle again.
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finley_shah645mo ago
My art teacher in 10th grade would have called that a "happy accident" and made us roll with it. I spilled black ink on a half finished portrait once and just turned the whole thing into a shadow monster eating the person's face. Got an A. The white gel pen save is totally valid, it's just fixing a problem with style.
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