Welcome to the workshop!
Papermaking Workshop – June 27 to July 1, 2022
Welcome to the Summer Art Intensive Papermaking page. This site is a source of information and ideas for our workshop. I will be posting a general schedule for paper making soon.
In the menu, you’ll find links to pages with images of work perviously created in the HSU paper studio and links to other artists, ideas and resources you may find useful.
This year I am working in person for the workshop. I will try to work the best I can with you if you need to be remote, but I have not developed “kits” as I have for the last two summers during the height of the pandemic. I know one person has asked to be remote, but will attend the first day in person to produce the raw materials she will need for the week. If you have to be remote, contact me so we can discuss how that might work.
This year is also going to be crowded. Not only with a full roster of attendees, but with a morning and afternoon workshop. This means we have to juggle the equipment and space between two full groups and everything that is being produced. This will be a challenge, but I know each of you are coordination experts, and we will make it work. I will keep this issue in mind as we set up the studio for the workshops. This year we will have HSU art student Faith Wray helping out in the paper studio. She does excellent work, and I am sure she will be essential to all of us getting great work created.
Materials you may need
Along with basic sheet formation, skinning and molding techniques, there will be ideas I will focus on for your personal work. You can choose either, but I would love it if everyone got one piece done using either (or both). These are Kite making, and the other is Light making. So, using your handmade paper from this workshop to create an artist’s kite, or design a lamp with your paper. Of course, if you have another idea, I am open to that, as well.
Sunday – June 26
(the information in this section is yet to be update and will be changing)
Day One – Monday, June 27
Intro to handmade paper. We will start with sheet formation pulling sheets of “abaca” and “kozo” to make raw materials for Tuesday and Wednesday.
We will use basic western-style sheet formation techniques including deckled and clean edge, double “couched” (pronounced coo•ched), embedded, and sheets from vat inclusions. We will build “posts” of sheets and felt that will be pressed.
Due to the amount of work that will be produced in a short time, we will be using “board drying” rather than stack drying. I will talk about both and everyone will get to try their hand at how to board dry your paper.
Hopefully we will have time for me to demo how to skin wire armature to create 3D objects. If not we will do this first thing Tuesday.
Check out idea on the gallery page:
http://www.davidstoddard.com/papermaking/gallery/
Day Two – Tuesday, June 28
We will look at beater operation for making pulp, and continue to make sheets, and we will make wire armatures for 3D pieces that use abaca to “skin” the armatures.
Abaca shrinks a lot as it dries. When stuck to wire armatures a skin of abaca becomes taut like a drum as it dries.
We’ll use baling wire for this:
Copper and aluminum wire work as well if you want to bring your own.
We’ll use Methylcelluose, which I will provide, as a glue to help the wet sheets of abaca stick to the wire. Pliers for bending and cutting wire for your armatures, and small soft brush for gluing are good to bring.
We will also set up for marbling for Wednesday. For this we will make sheets that have kozo in them, and spray them with “alum” to ensure the paper absorbs the ink during marbling.
Work time. We can all work on making sheets, making wire armatures and applying abaca, and develop ideas for personal work.
Day Three – Wednesday, June 29
Info to come
Day Four – Thursday, June 30
Info to come