Holiday Preparations

This holiday season, Catie and I decided that we would make our own wrapping paper. I had a bunch of old paper shopping bags in my recycling and Catie had the creativity and inspiration necessary to get me in on it.



Here, Catie is using empty aluminum cans to make rows of circles on her first go-around. The technique is simple; find an object with an interesting shape/textural pattern, paint the interesting part of the object, and press onto the paper before it dries. (I used the bottle in the extreme foreground).




This is Catie's end result. And isn't she cute?



On this piece, Catie used the side of a plastic cup that has raised bumps. Here, she is painting the cup.



Rolling the cup onto the paper. This pattern was my favorite, even if my cup is still a little yellow.

Hurrah! I hope your holidays were also inspired.

-JR