I love paper! I love it, adore it, when I was little I even ate it! I love to possess as many papers as I can afford. I love to try them out with different media and see what they’re capable of. This is handmade Khadi paper. I doused it with an Indian ink wash using a natural sponge and the texture of the paper created some nice stippling.
I have been trying to work out how to draw local landscape, which is very atmospheric. I particularly want to try out ways of capturing twilight and darkness and preparing the paper in this way is showing some promise. I added some highlights and lowlights with chalk and carbon but most of the work had been done.
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I ove paper-I make monoprints and montypes-no peice of paper too small to be kept and used. Texture! Color!
It’s so fabulous, so much better than canvas or anything else really. So versatile.
I feel exactly the same way about paper. It’s irresistible, isn’t it? The feel of it and the texture. I even love the sound paper makes when it’s moved–that ringing you get with watercolour paper when you bend it.
And the smell! They all smell different