Using up the pulp

After finishing the project it was time to use up all the pulps in the vats..... I haven't made any square sheets for years so this was a good time to use them!!

October/November

I had to work really hard to get back into the paper making mode because I have been asked to create a large piece similar to a commission piece that I made back in 2017!!

This work enables me to revisit and create a project that requires all of my skills and knowledge regarding the pigmentation and manipulation of the papermaking fibres.

I spent two days preparing and colouring the fibres and then another two days making the individual sheets to make an A1 size piece. After making many of the individual pieces I decided that I didn't like the results and so it was time to go back to the beginning.

The brief was to create a piece that was influence by my photographs of stained glass windows that have aged and sagged over the decades using the colours of the required request - 'cyanotype blues'

'As always I complicate and then have to fine tune and simplify'

To create the grid 'lead lattice' (cames and quarries) window effect I used too many colours - oranges, blacks, yellow and blues which created a bit of a messy too busy look!

Here is the final piece - with simplified colour use!