Illuminations. Flag book with encaustic & handmade cotton paper laminates. © Haley Nagy. As an artist, I am very interested in the concealed and disguised elements of our culture. These are the things that are “seen but not heard” or that “go on behind closed doors”. This fascination with the “hidden” has manifested itself in [...]
Pamela Paulsrud is a 2000 graduate of Columbia College Chicago who uses cymatics, sand and pulp painting in her papermaking process. This is another great example of the diversity of the medium of hand papermaking. Check out the video below to see the interesting way in which she combines visible sound vibrations into her work, [...]
Pulp painting is the process of creating a handmade sheet of paper, and while the paper is still wet and freshly couched (removed from the mould and deckle), painting on top of it with pigmented pulp. Used in conjunction with stencils, artists can create very complicated images that become completely fused with the final piece [...]
