California Landscape Watercolor Painting
This watercolor landscape was painted after a trip to see my step dad in Central California. I love the shape of the land up there; curvy golden hillsides, forged smooth with time, and made soft & textured with grasses and shrubs. The fleshy horizon line along parts of the California highways remind me of reclined, slumbering figures.
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You sent notes this summer asking about the difference between my studio newsletter and subscribing to this blog. Why aren’t they one and the same?
Each time new art is finished in my studio, a blog post is published here, so if I’m painting and printing a lot for an upcoming show, I might post 3-5 times in a week, and you’d get quite a few of my studio missives via email.
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A Beautiful Video on How Handmade Paper is Manufactured
This 5 minute video (above) shows the fascinating process to create handmade paper.
The process is equal parts modern mechanics, and centuries-old sequencing. The movements by skilled paper artisans in the factory is almost choreography. (I wonder what they list as their titles on a business card? Professional Paper-maker?)
I think a lot of artists muse about the expense of paper, and this video snippet may shed light on the enormous series of steps to create each sheet.
Have you ever created hand made paper using screens and a blender?
Thanks fot stopiing by, asn I’ll see you in the next post!
Belinda
Art Quote
To keep his errors down to a minimum, the internal Censor to whom a poet submits his work in progress should be a Censorate. It should include, for instance, a sensitive only child, a practical housewife, a logician, a monk, an irreverent buffoon and even, perhaps, hated by all the others and returning their dislike, a brutal, foul-mouthed drill sergeant who considers all poetry rubbish.
W. H. Auden
Great Painting, Belinda! I have been very interested in handmade paper recently, so I enjoyed the video as well.
Hi Ken!! Nice to see you! Thanks for the encouragement, and I look forward to your posts about handmade paper, and maybe even some more of your great printmaking. 🙂
Hi Belinda Beautiful Barn Painting, one of my painting passions is barns, another is old trees.
enjoy getting your emails and jumping over to your blog,keep them coming, happy painting & printing
Hi Margaret. It’s always a good thing to have painting passions, and you’ve picked two great subjects with endless variety of textures. I grew up in New England, so I like both barns and old trees too. Thanks for your encouragement, and happy painting back to you!
Nice barn painting Belinda – a subject I enjoy. The paper-making video reminded me of a visit some years ago to St. Cuthbert’s Mill in Somerset, UK – very interesting to see the process first-hand.
Hi Sonia, Lucky you to visit St. Cuthbert’s Mill! I’d love to see their machinery and process. They sent samples of Saunders Waterford paper, and it’s tough stuff. Really takes a beating. Thanks for the compliment. 🙂