Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Sunshine and Pebbles, two more of the paper pulp paintings made the same day as Bojangles. Also done with the same stencil, obviously, they have very organic formats, the black background is not part of these pieces. It's an interesting process, you create the base sheet by dipping a screen into a vat of oatmeal-like pulp and shaking it out to fill the deckle frame to get a clean edge, which I choose not to use; I love the ragged borders. The other colors are applied with nozzled bottles filled with pigmented pulp, and then the water is pressed out, which binds the pulp into a single sheet of paper. It's extremely messy, and so appealing; there must be a way to do it at home, but I haven't figured it out yet.


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