This post is in the key of Duh! Usually when someone says "paper art" they mean things you do with paper: cut it, glue it, construct it, use it to cover, line, or write on. So when my Google alert brought up Shayli Vere's paper art, I thought "Hmm, wonder what she does with it?"
Turns out she does the one thing I didn't think of: she makes it. And each piece is itself a piece of art and treated as such. Key of Duh, right? And not only does she do lovely abstractions like this one [all photos © Shayli Vere]:
. . . she also does figurative "pulp paintings," a term I hadn't heard before, of landscapes and flowers. I'm amazed and at how subtle the effects are in some of these. They look almost like watercolors. See what I mean? When she's done, she mounts them on canvas and varnishes them.
I never thought of paper pulp itself as an artistic medium, though I don't know why it couldn't be, any more than the materials of paper marbling couldn't. There's a nice little step by step demo on Vere's site too. Go look!
For once, I don't want to make anything with these; I just want to look at them. They are absolutely gorgeous. The colors alone make my mouth water.
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