Cotton and Birchbark Paper ROCKS

Paper Parade, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

this amazing paper started with some ratty birchbark peeling off of the river birch in my front yard. Cooked on Saturday morning and plopped in a vat of cotton on Monday. Gorgeous.

look at the amazing illuminated papers we made tonight. I love to look in the window at the studio with these blocks of color and texture "blocking" the view.

I harvested day lily and cooked it this weekend. The result is the brown paper. The green paper on the right has poppy seed and dill to create the color shift and texture. 

Abaca and cotton papers

Abaca and cotton papers, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

wet papers on the window at MCBA. these were made in a class. some are double couched with abaca on cotton.

Fun to be in the paper studio remembering how to beat, clean, pull, clean. dry, and clean up again.

Excited to do some harvesting in my yard and elsewhere. Got some cooking to do this weekend.

Marbled Paper In the Teacher Show

I've decided on my entry for the 2nd Annual MPS Teacher Show. I'm putting in, 3 pieces of my marbled paper "drawings". I had something totally different in mind, brought my three choices to share with my work team and they decided with me that the marbling was the most dynamic. So, there you have it. Here is  one of the three pieces that I'll hang. This will be grouped with a git gel design with splatter and a more psychedelic piece with "leaf" design. It'll be interesting to see what people think about these crazy papers.

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