So I'm getting braver and taking on a larger canvas. Like I'm feeling good about my painting style. This piece incorporates pieces of paper I made while demonstrating paper making at our town's annual Cherry Blossom Festival. I used some of last year's programs that were printed on pink paper. The black ink and the pink paper gave me a pale greyish pink paper. I added a few orchid pedals from an old lei for additional contrast and surprisingly then held their red color. I also made paper pulp from slightly ground yellow pages from the phone book since the new books came out recently, giving the greenish-gray sheets along the left side of the canvas. Recycle, recycle. I combined the cast paper over my painted canvas and then used the coconut fiber that I un-wove to give the transparent effect I'd been longing for. I donated 100% of the sales proceeds to a newly formed local arts organization.
