Archived entries for Art 466 Papermaking

New Video: Making Watermarks

Barbara Landes gave a daylong workshop demonstrating how to make watermarks. This link will play it on YouTube.com. Students worked with Flexicut and hot glue guns to create drawing and images to use as watermarks. I will gather more photos soon and will link them to this post. Students made some great pieces. For more information on Barbara Landes‘s work, click on this link. More information about Myszka Lewis’s artwork, visit her page. Thanks to everyone that participated.

Laser cutter might be new best friend to watermarks

Sandra Erbacher cut text out of a sheet of vinyl using a laser cutter. She carefully placed them on the face of a papermaking mould. (Photograph by Jim Escalante)Sandra Erbacher, a graduate student in the art department recently was inspired by Barbara Landes’s work (see post here)with watermarks made with the laster cutter. Sandra uses text in her work, decided that laser cut vinyl lettering would be a great way to use text as a watermark. Click on the photo above to see other in process photos or click on photos of watermark process.

Laser cutter, please meet handmade paper.

Barbara Landes, a grad student in the Art Department used an image of seaweed as a pattern to cut plastic on Meg Mitchell’s laser cutter. The seaweed design was sewn on to a papermaking mould. In this experiment Barb double dipped the deckle and mound in two colors of cotton fiber. Click on the image above to view more photographs.

Coming soon, a short video…


…on making paper from corn husks.

Corn makes for a good meal and lovely paper!

(2012 © Jim Escalante)

Corn husks from one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison corn research stations were dried and given to our Papermaking lab. We are in the process of using the husks in our hand papermaking projects. We will add images and information as this projects moves forward.

Digital Edition of Hand Papermaking’s Newsletter

Subscribers to the Hand Papermaking magazine receive a digital copy of the quarterly newsletter. It works well on an iPad or other mobil device. For more information go to Hand Papermaking Organization. Great to have a digital resource for those of us that still love to use our hands!

Happy Surprise

(Photograph by Jim Escalante)I discovered the summer issue of the Friends of the Library magazine in the office. Not only does the cover showcase one of the submissions from the Paper in Motion portfolio from Hand Papermaking but it has an excellent article about the Artists’ Book Collection in the Kohler Art Library. You can see some “Behind the Scene” photos of the studio setup.
Friends of the Library Magazine. University of Wisconsin-Madison. August 2012 (Photograph by Jim Escalante)

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