Lansdowne Farmers Market

Hi All!

Tomorrow Paper Precious will be featured as the 'Artist of the Week' at Lansdowne Farmers Market. Here is the link - http://lansdownefarmersmarket.com/newsletters/pages/130808.html

Its not only about art, the Lansdowne Farmers Market has fabulous fresh food - in-season fruits and veggies, fresh baked treats, cider, plants and lots more. And all this enfolds on the background of a live music track!

See you there!

Cheers!
Manasee

Updates from Paper Precious

Hello All!

Work has been a tad slow for the past few weeks. The project in progress is a custom wall clock, which will be gifted by a friend to a lady I know.

This project is probably the one on which I spent the maximum time in the design. Nothing seemed to work, and nothing clicked. Finally, I decided to go with the two things I know the lady loves - dancing, and the color yellow!

I will not post the image of the clock here until it has been gifted to the said lady, so that will have to wait!

That said, here is a lineup of the exhibitions at which I will be displaying my work for the next few months -

10 Aug - Artist of the Week at Lansdowne Farmers Market.
7-8 Sept - Visual Artist at Lansdowne Arts Fest

A few workshops are also in the pipeline, more details later!

Cheers!
Manasee

Treasure Box - Lacy Flower

Hello All!

Preparations for the exhibition on 7th June at Lansdowne Art Space are in full swing. One of my favorite items so far is this treasure box, decorated with a lacy flower.

The box is covered with handmade paper (Oh...how I love those!), and on the lid is a beautifully delicate flower in shades of pink.

Here is a closeup of the flower.

The tutorial for this flower is given in this wonderful website - http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-quilling-technique-tutorial.html. Thanks Chris for the amazing tutorial! There were a few steps that I did not understand, but the one direction I liked best was - "Just try to get the given shape" :)

I have tried to get some shading effect by using multiple shades of pink in the beehives. The MOST tough part of making this was gluing the petals at an angle...each petal is glued over the previous petal and under the next petal...phew!

All in all, I love the way this flower looks, delicate and elegant. A treasure in itself!

Cheers!
Manasee

First Fridays!

Hello All!

Good news! Paper Precious will be one of the featured artists at Art Space Lansdowne First Fridays. Be sure to come visit the booth on 7th June :)

Lots of new work to be on display! Hope to see you there :)

http://artspacelansdowne.com/first-friday/

Cheers!
Manasee