The Sunday Paper #269
July 21, 2019
The July project in the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar is a Crepe Paper Flower. Have you created yours? This isn’t the crepe paper you’re thinking of (those rolls of streamers used for decorating staircases and dangling from ceilings). This new top-of-the-line 180 gram Italian crepe paper is thick, pliable and luxurious. You can stretch and manipulate this paper to create interesting forms. This crepe paper is available in a multitude of bright colors from Mulberry Paper and More.
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Sometimes I make a paper that I just don’t like! Has that happened to you? Today I decided to transform some of these into momigami. I’m applying konnyaku to both sides of these thin cotton/abaca sheets and will then crumple them.
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Papery Tidbits:
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Pulparazzi, Painting With Paper, is now on view at the Jamestown Arts Center in Rhode Island. The group consists of eight artists, who got together in 2010 in San Antonio during a three-day artists retreat to explore and exchange thoughts on the pulp painting. What an incredibly rich and rewarding experience!
“Blue,” by Michelle Samour is included in the “PULPARAZZI: Painting with Paper” exhibition at the Jamestown Arts Center. Photo: Michael Derr
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Featured this week in my Studio shop: Playing With Paper, my films about paper, the Twelve Months of Paper Calendar (now 1/2 price) and 50 Revolutions, an artist’s book. |
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Hi Helen, I read that you are going to Japan soon. Try to visit ITOYA in the suburb of GINZA in Tokyo. It is a 100 year+ old paper/stationery shop, over 12 floors. There is a fabulous cafe up towards the top, their own hydroponic farm on another floor and more paper and paper products than you have ever seen in your life.
Email me and I’ll send more details and some photos of the shop and layout.
Seriously, this is one not to be missed!
Kind regards, Claire Brach.