Unicorn Book

This book was supposed to go with a bag done with white, purple and blue twine. It's a bolt book with suminagashi cover papers, black denim binding cloth and brads for accents. The filler is printer paper and the cover unicorn was some sponged/dripped abstract paper. The bag suffered from a botched strap. It kept getting shorter as I made it wider.

Elemental Boxes #1&2

These boxes are different shapes and color schemes from the previous entries, but the process is relatively the same. The pyramid got "earthy" colors in abstract patterns. It looks "wetter" and drippier than I intended, but the basic idea was to look as if it had been exposed to outdoor weather for a few thousand years. I tried to make the "water" box rippled by taping hemp twine to it before paper mache, but that didn't work very well. I compensated in the paint by using circular items to stamp bubbles on and put some wave foam around the edges with sponges.

Vase 3?

A 6 sided vase in a different shape from the others.

Boxes with color wheel rock borders

I took the "rock borders" idea from my previous box and vase, but this time I used different colors. I made a set of 4. Each box started with a base coat of a color and each successive layer moved counter-clockwise around the color wheel. For example, the red box has purple dry brushing, blue frames, green dry brushing on them and yellow string hinges.

"Flat" paper mache paintings

The top one started out as a cardboard box. I broke it down flat, paper mached it and painted. The bottom 2 are made by using a curved piece of cardboard with plastic over it and taping string across. Then I put paper mache on them and painted. The orange one is really lined ridges, but looked like bumpy fabric when I photographed it in a certain light so I did the blue one reverse. It's actually bumps that are supposed to look like ridges.