About Me
- Name: Profile
- Location: Waterbury, Vermont, United States
Nan is a licensed art educator (K-12) and gifted education specialist ( PreK-12). She is a member of the Teaching for Artistic Behavior partnership (TAB), National Art Education Association & National Association for Gifted Children.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Developing Craft - Handmade Paper Artist
“J” started his experimentation with papermaking last year. Once he learned the basic steps of crafting paper from recycled and found materials, he began exploring the idea of using small batches of different colored pulp to combine in patterns within a single sheet of paper. This idea led him to devising various methods to keep the colors separate. He made dividers out of cardboard and stencils out of paper and tagboard.
Last week, during our extended “Wednesday Workshop” time, “J” tested out an intricate and ambitious stencil cut from the same kind of Styrofoam we often use to make relief prints (one could use a meat tray as well). He prepared his pulps, agonized over which color should be background and which should be used for the image of the bird he cut into his stencil. A third pulp was prepared for a design element surrounding the bird. The result was not as crisp and clear as he imagined, but while assessing the experience, “J” commented that he likes the end result because it is less overt, more abstract, and this he finds more interesting to look at.
