Having PaperGirl is a welcome change from my daily work. I love my clients, designing websites and print pieces but to have a project with total freedom is a luxury. Since I started participating in PaperGirl last year I have had the opportunity to experiment with many new and different approaches.
It has been so much fun combining hand pulled prints with hand detailing. A departure from my usual pencil or ink drawings. And the biggest difference is the things that happen in the combining of color and texture. As the ink rolls over the plate and then to the paper, ink is distributed differently everywhere. Sometimes the roller picks up a pattern from the plate that embeds in the ink and in turn on the paper creating new shapes and nuances. That would never happen on the computer. Sure, some happy accidents happen in Illustrator or Photoshop, but never with quite the same depth of result as in an actual tangible, analog creation.
Each PaperGirl piece has been one of a kind and the other unusual thing for me is that I have been able to let them go, out into the world to find their own life. That used to be a very hard thing for me to do. Now my only hope is that maybe whoever sees or receives a piece, also receives some kind of pleasure from them.
