From the category archives:

paper

TGIF – Shrine I

1 September 2009

After a long time sitting on the table in 5 or 6 pieces the Guadalupe/Sirena shrine has finally come together.
I never did find a place for the rose petals.
A couple of details.
My hand colored and glittered Virginsita.
The oddly appealing Chicken Boy.

Tagged as: blue, box, madonna, sirena

Read the full article →

One Day Book – (K) Kicks

18 February 2009

…coming soon… it’ sitting in the press getting flat.
Meanwhile here are the graphics for the covers of  “(K) Kicks”
The book pretty much sucks – it’s a one day after all. But I like the graphics.

Read the full article →

An exhibition of books in Oaxaca

14 October 2008

Each time I am in Oaxaca I stop into the Casa De La Ciudad. There is always something interesting in the little sala to the right of the entrance.
When I was last there (September 2008) it was the exhibition -Los Libres, Los Viajes, y El Tiempo (Books, Travels, and Time – roughly)
The problem of how [...]

Read the full article →

Clever Packaging

15 September 2008

On my way back to my interrupted vacation in Oaxaca I had the chance to upgrade my DFW to MEX flight to business class. I *love* business class. The only thing better than the leg room is the refuge from the “cheap as we can make it” ethos of coach. Including this lovely little bit [...]

Read the full article →

WIP – The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)

19 August 2008

Our recent vacation gave Jim the chance to take a lot of pictures of motorcycles and riders on the proverbial “closed course.” Some of them are in fact “professional riders.”
I now have tons of uncluttered photos to work with. Hence the creation of a new series of work, this time in engineered paper.
First up:
Solo Red [...]

Tagged as: motorcycles, paper engineering, pop-ups

Read the full article →

Playing with (paper) Dolls

25 June 2008

This little harlequin dancer is sitting on my worktable waiting for a face. That’s always the hard part.

I started with the doll parts and some fancy red and gold paper that became her tights.
Then she got a skirt.

I started with some organza and cut two layers. the upper layer is notched and then the edge [...]

Tagged as: paper dolls

Read the full article →

Paper Boxes

30 April 2008

I got a kit for making a paper box last week. It was from Books by Hand. They have a number of kits for making books/albums and boxes using book board, book cloth, and decorative papers. Ben Franklin sells the kits. Mostly they sell complete kits but if you scout around you can find kits [...]

Read the full article →