This simple structure is a great introduction to book making. Grizzly Peak Winery's owner, Virginia LaRoux, is a great artist and calligrapher, and gracefully hosts our Art Peace classes at their beautiful winery.
I admit I'm catching up - thie August blog post is a retrospective going back to November 2014. Making art and narrating the process .... two different things....
Star Making - I cold make just one! I initially planned to make a large star, using very heavy water color paper, texturizing both sides, cutting into strips, accordion fold to make the stars. I learned to water color the Japanese rice paper - very sheer to let the light through, making each star a luminary. Iron the rice paper before gluing the stars on and carefully cutting out. (if you glue first and then watercolor - the luminary paper won't be as firm and tight). I was inspired to take the self portraits because ...... Leo rising? Affinity for archetypes? Or just because....... |