TREES. PAPER. LEAVES. Making art with paper sculpture. Hello Fiber Enthusiasts, I’m so excited to feature Paper Artist Dana Slowiak! I’ve just met Dana through working on the Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail in Baraboo, Wisconsin and I have to admit that...
Fresh starts never arrive ahead of time and are usually there for a good reason. It’s an opportunity to sort through the everyday accumulation and pick what you’d like to keep and leave behind the things of little or no value. One of my aspirations is journaling. I...
I looked forward to a trip up north this past weekend. For me, each trip north is a mini-quest spent in anticipation of slipping through the pine belt into the north woods. This is where Mother Nature’s approach to landscape composition jumps to the big canvas. Even...
Mary Holland, who has been marbling paper for almost twenty years, showed me the basics as she worked in her shared studio space in the basement of a friend’s house in St Paul. A retired teacher, Mary was especially adept at explaining the process to a greenhorn such...