About My Technique (It All Began With a Little Pig)
It all started when I was in Denmark for an exchange student program.
Being a student and in a foreign country made money take a big roll in every choice I took, so my artistic choices were influenced too.
Christmas came and we had to make a three dimensional ornaments for the tree,(did I mention that I didn’t have any money?). I looked around and all I saw in my room was a big pile of newspapers that was on my door step every week for free. Well, it was me, the newspaper and a plastic glue. and then it hit me that there are many colors in the newspaper itself, if I cut them out maybe I could do something with it. Using only the newspaper and the glue I made my first Christmas ornament. This pig (which is actually a matchbox ) is hollow (made from rings of paper and glue) and colored by the pink color cuts. As you can see it was very small. Then I started to build larger shapes and found it was possible and I started to make my paper dolls.
thank you so much for sharing the heritage and the process of your work! i’m so fascinated by your technique.
I’m fascinated too!! Being an exchange student in a foreign country with a little money sure makes your creativity grow… Congratulations and what a pretty pig! If I were that pig I’d be very proud of myself for being the first one you did!
Hi
Love all your figures and the stories behind them. Do you have any pics of what you mean by making rings of paper and glue first. Is that just to build the main shape and then you stick more paper on?