The Key to My Heart

The title for this post was hard to decide on. I debated between this and “40 Days and 40 Nights” because today is day 40!

Don’t forget to enter the Giveaway if you haven’t already. The pile of papers just keeps growing!

#38

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In 2011, I co-taught a class at The Penland School with Alyssa Salomon, who specializes in alternative photographic techniques like cyanotype and van dyke. I had such fun experimenting with the techniques. This is a cyanotype. You can purchase cool maps of major cities at specialty paper stores. I bought this map of Manhattan at Two Hands Paperie. Do you see Central Park?

#39

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For Halloween, I decided to weave a Tootsie Pop wrapper into this printed key paper, also from Two Hands Paperie. The key paper reminded me of my freshman year of college, when I took 3D Design (and ate a lot of Tootsie Pops). One of our first assignments was to take an object and draw it from various perspectives. The paper brought up that memory.

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Graphic Products Corporation imports papers from all over the world. I own their swatch books of over 800 papers! Just yesterday I received a nice donation from them including the two papers featured in this weaving: a Philippine Rice Hull paper and a Thai paper called Golden Leaves on Emerald. Graphic Product’s website is a great resource for choosing papers. And many paper stores around the country carry their papers – even my little art supply store here in the mountains of Colorado, which by the way, are covered with snow.