{"id":139,"date":"2007-07-10T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-07-10T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:31:00","slug":"scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/10\/scraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Scraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After a series of tight deadlines, the stacks of art paper in my studio are piling up and weighing me down. I’ve begun organizing all this paper, and the scope of task is commensurate with Hercules’ in the Augean stables. Although my studio smells better (than the stables).<\/p>\n

Actually, if you’re a little under the weather, as I have been, it’s rather pleasant to sort through the scraps of paste paper, calligraphy, watercolor washes, color studies, off cuts and so on. It stimulates all kinds of ideas … which makes it harder to throw anything away. I look at a 2″ scrap of interesting marks and think: “That would go well in a book whose theme is …” and “That could be the anchor in a collage on …”
Here’s a display of some of the keepers. To give you an idea of scale: The white squares at the lower part of the picture are about 3″ square.<\/p>\n

The big question is how to organize them. I don’t have a final answer. This time I sorted them into plastic bags by general size and shape. It’s no good keeping papers together by technique — paste painting, watercolor, calligraphy, mark-making — because of the smaller smaller items get lost between the bigger ones.<\/p>\n

Like loose change, my inventory level of paper scraps is constantly being adjusted. No inventory, and I’ve got to start from scratch for even a little 1\/2″ block of orange-red, say, that will “make” the piece. Too much inventory, and every project is overwhelming in its possibilities. Way too much inventory, and I might as well have none because I don’t even want to open the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a series of tight deadlines, the stacks of art paper in my studio are piling up and weighing me down. I’ve begun organizing all this paper, and the scope of task is commensurate with Hercules’ in the Augean stables. Although my studio smells better (than the stables). Actually, if you’re a little under the … <\/p>\n

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