The Sunday Paper #272
August 11, 2019
Twice a year, I have an on-line paper sale, and the Summer 2019 sale begins now! Click here to check out the five paper packages featuring flat flax, Papillon Paper notebooks, flax leather, The Maker’s Paper: Sound Blocks and paper cloth. The sale runs now through next Sunday, August 18th. Quantities are limited, so order right away to get what you want!
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This week, I had the pleasure of hosting Bing Gong and Eleanore Despina in the studio for a private lesson. Bing took a class with me at Arrowmont several years ago, and the two of them have been setting up their own paper studio in California. We cooked and beat kozo, experimented with internal and external sizing, made cotton and abaca sheets, and more.
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Papery Tidbits:
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This is too cool! In September, Nestlé Japan is switching from plastic to paper packaging for their Kit Kats, and they are encouraging people to reuse the package to fold a paper crane. I’m going to be on the lookout for these when I visit Japan in November!
Ekaterina Lukasheva does amazing things with a single sheet of paper. I’m honored to have her as a project contributor for my upcoming book! Check out this video of her work in motion on My Modern Met.
Lenny Maughan is an avid runner and an artist who makes drawings of his 20-mile runs on paper maps. “I’ll look for patterns in a street map or I’ll try to make a shape fit within the lines of the streets, and then I sketch it out on a paper map with a highlighter. It goes through several iterations before I get it just right.”
I really enjoyed this article about how printmaking became popular after The Great Depression. It’s the story of Reeves Lewenthal, who instead of catering to elites like most dealers, focused on the huge middle-class market of art consumers that remained untapped. His goal was to educate and sell art. Associated American Artists: Prints for the People is on view at the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, Oregon) through September 1.
Joseph Hirsch, “Banquet” (1945), lithograph on beige wove paper (Portland Art Museum, gift of Christopher Russell)
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One of the best parts of assembling a book is connecting with other artists. Special thanks to Nancy Akerly, Jocelyn Chateauvert and Gina Pisello for these gorgeous paper samples. You can help too!
Guidelines:
I will credit you in the book and will be eternally grateful for your contribution. Thank you!
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Featured this week in my Studio shop: Playing With Pop-Ups, my films about paper, a paper weaving LandEscape, an artist’s book. |
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2 Comments
Helen, Will the paper pieces sent in for your Book be returned?
Marty, I am just seeing this sorry. No, unfortunately I do not have the resources to return all of the samples. Helen