Delicious papers from Art and Soul Retreat

We had so much fun last week at Art and Soul! Here are some of the decorated papers created by my students in "Papers Wabi-Sabi". Some of these are closeups while others are detail shots of the papers. (I didn't suceed in getting good photos of all the papers--some are too blurry to be saved even by "unsharp mask".)

Students used acrylic paint, re-inkers, alcohol inks, collage techniques, stamping, stencils, and more to make these unique papers.

Liz Kettle taught an evening class where students could take their papers and create gorgous tote bags from them!

Giveaway Winner

Congrats to Mitzie Crider, a jewelry artist who has won my giveaway! She'll be receiving a couple of sheets of my hand decorated wabi-sabi paper! 

If  you'd like to make your own "Papers Wabi-Sabi", I'll be teaching this class at Portland Art and Soul, coming up soon!

Papers Wabi-Sabi': Decorated Papers at Art and Soul

What are these artists doing? In a very large class full of creative chaos, they are turning plain mulberry paper into strong, flexible, and gorgeous art paper. The class was buzzing with creativity and fun! We used re-inkers, acrylic glaze, alcohol ink, acrylics and much more in a wild burst of experimentation. A wonderful evening with wonderful students!

More Art and Soul Pictures

More student work from "Wabi-Sabi Wax." In this class students learned how to make encaustic medium and paint and how to use these plus oil paint and mixed media to create rich layered work.

A few images of students' "Wabi-Sabi" decorated papers. More to come tomorrow.