The Art of Making Paste Papers

I am learning all the time.
The tombstone will be my diploma.

–Eartha Kitt

Working with children; sharing the learning process at its very beginning is an education and delight unto itself. So fresh and full of promise and discovery.

Holding the pencil strangely really helps

I've spent the last week with a wonderful group of young students in the

Getting ready to paint

studio. It's fun, it's satisfying. What unique ideas they come up with: young & old; naive and sophisticated. Growth is  visible, tangible and exciting.
We worked with paint in a variety of ways, both watercolor and acrylic, and also worked with combed and stamped paste papers. My first time doing that, so it truly was a learning experience for me as well.

Now I am eager for an immersion into color.
Both on the canvas, and in the world. Spring is just barely beginning to awaken in Vermont. I know the azaleas and cherries are blooming a few hours south of here, but we still have snow in the shadows in our woodland home.
Spring travels north 16 miles a day.

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