We’ve been making pastel drawings for a while now. We wondered how we could bring the drawing and the sculpture together. Making our own drawing paper seemed a start.
Read moreslush pulp: bespoke drawing paper
there’s tooth and then there’s texture
Blowouts - water spray on freshly pulled handmade paper
black and white cotton linter blowout couched onto a peach backing sheet
We deckle boxed a sheet of mixed black and white cotton pulp. After removing the deckle, we lay some weighty, interesting shapes on the sheet (in this case some steel clamps.) Then we remove all the pulp still showing by blowing it out with the spray from a water hose. The weight of the objects keeps the water pressure from displacing them and disturbing the pulp beneath.
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Detail of a work incorporating a “puffer,” see recent work
Putting a patch of low shrinkage cotton fiber onto a high shrinkage ground like abaca produces a wonderful puffing effect. The post follows the creation of the puffer shown above.
Read morePlaying up nothing: Making holes out of papers
We cast with blue jean cotton rag paper filling the spaces between the islands of plywood. The garden store pebbles added ripples of texture.
We like negative space, so we cast some. We laid down some odd shaped plywood pieces and filled in the space around them with wet sheets of lightly pressed cotton paper. The pebbles were pressed in for texture.
We call this series of objects “holed’ers” because the pieces were initially, at least, holed by positive shapes.
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