White Paper Drawings

Paper Mountain

Size: 10” x 9” x ½”

Medium: White Paper, White Gesso

Artist Statement: This assignment required to take a 21”x24” piece of white paper, tear it up and assemble the pieces together using gesso as an adhesive with no scraps wasted into a dimension of approximately 8”x10”. While tearing the piece of paper, a few piece curled up at the end while others had interesting texture on the edges. This inspired me to create a landscape scene using the curly tip pieces of paper into leaves for a tree and the piece of the rough edged texture ones for the mountain. Majority of the scrap paper were used to create the thickness in the tree trunk in the technique of paper mache and behind the triangular pieces that was used for creating the mountains, the scrapes helped make shadows to show there was distances between the mountains.

Charcoal Bird

Size: 8” x 10” x 1 ½”

Medium: White Paper, White Gesso, Rembrandt Black pastel

Artist Statement: As with the previous drawing assignment in to take a 21”x24” piece of paper and convert it into an 8”x10” but instead of tearing the paper I used scissors for clean cuts because I had an idea in mind. All the scrap pieces of paper from the last drawing inspired me to create a nest for a bird. Anything and everything can go into a bird’s nest right, but in this case all the scrape pieces at the end were matted down and layered to create this nest. Also for this drawing assignment, I was allowed to use some Rembrandt Black pastel to create value in this piece.  The pastel helped in distinguishing some of the layers on the adult bird and created an interest backdrop.