Tag: plant fibre paper
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Over recent weeks I’ve been in the papermaking studio creating some new sheets for myself. At the end of June my friend Dinah and myself…
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Pages: Multi layer print and collage. Chine collé and drawing. Gelli plate peel print using dried plant material. Now to put the book together.
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Pages: Masked acrylic paint prints using clingfilm to create texture. Multi layer chine collé and paint. Gelli plate peel print using dried plant material. Masking…
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Pages: Chine collé and other collaged pieces of handmade paper were included here. The stencil was used as a mask to achieve this negative image…
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Pages: The carved lino was initially rolled with Stormy Grey oil-based ink. Prior to printing I decided I wasn’t going to like the colour against…
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Having cropped my chosen image (see previous blog post) I cut a piece of lino in reverse. To provide more options I also designed and…
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A couple of weeks ago I was at the paper arts studio with a friend to check and replenish our supply of paper pulp in…
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On recent visits to the papermaking studio I’ve been exploring laminating paper. In papermaking terms this means layering multiple pulled pieces together into a single…
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Over recent months I’ve documented my progress in printing some Banksia themed solar plates I was given late last year. Some of them are quite…
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A friend gave me some semi-prepared pineapple fibre to make into paper. The fronds of the pineapple plant had been stripped and dried before being…
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Having planted 2 banana trees a few years ago we’ve cut one down and harvested the fibres, as there are others now growing. The tree…
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Remember my baby banana trees from way back in October 2016? The left-hand one, living in direct sunlight, grew enormous, had a baby, and was…
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After my paper-making last week I had a little pulp remaining and decided to de-freeze some banana fibre pulp I made last year and see…
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Yesterday. At home. Computer off. Mobile phone out of sight. Just my husband, my dog Jack and myself. A rare day, determined to keep the…
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I love my orange tree. It’s the pride of my garden, closely followed by my mandarin and banana trees. I’m not a great gardener but…
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I boiled up my banana fibre a few weeks ago and last week blended it to a smooth pulp ready to make paper. I decided…
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Whilst having a huge clean-up at Primrose Park recently (the home of Primrose Paper Artists) one of our members came across a couple of bags…
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Working with my semi prepared swiss cheese plant (Monstera Deliciosa) fibre that I prepared here and here I started shaping and mixing the fibre with…
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Having started down the route of learning to make paper from plant material (see previous posts re Monstera Deliciosa trials) I spent a day with…
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Yesterday, after another period of boiling my swiss cheese plant fibre I let it cool down in the pot overnight. This morning, out it came…
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Ever since seeing a friend pulping banana leaf & stalk and then later turning it into wonderful textural paper sheets I’ve been wanting to have…