Category: papercraft

  • New project, blue sky and snow

    New project, blue sky and snow

    I do rather like using the blue paper and this one gives the chance to use it quite a bit. This piece is again from the Sanju Rokunin Kashu, this page is from the Yamabe no Akahito collection. Firstly I traced the template from the original, this I used as a base to tear the…

  • New piece – Ishiyama Giri

    New piece – Ishiyama Giri

    This is a new piece I am working on based on a page from the Ishiyama-giri. This is it in it’s first stages while drying, the plan is to decorate it with silver ink. The original manuscript is below.

  • Genji Emaki Monogatari

    Genji Emaki Monogatari

    For an Arts and Sciences competition category, For a Love, I decided to look in to the novel Genji Monogatari, seen as the worlds first novel by the female writer and poet, Murasaki Shibiku. I have chosen to base this off the 12th century manuscript of the work. This manuscript uses both gold and silver…

  • Layering experiment

    Layering experiment

    Working some more on the gradated layered paper, this time with the lighter, hairier paper and with a darker under layer. I do rather like this, and chose to decorate in silver rather than gold.

  • Paper layering

    Paper layering

    Some more experiments, this time with paper layering. This seems to work better with some types of papers rather than others

  • Autumn Chrysanthemums

    Autumn Chrysanthemums

    I managed to find some origami paper with metallic dragons and tried a layering effect with the paper, didn’t work as well as I liked it but I do like the red and orange effect Here is the text of the poem Iro kawaru Aki no kiku o ba Hitotose ni Futatabi niou Hana to…

  • Chigiri-e class – Fields of Gold 2022

    Chigiri-e class – Fields of Gold 2022

    Here are some pictures of my class on Chigiri-e that was done at Fields of Gold 2022 in Canberra. Was a nice relaxing afternoon creating art Handout for the class is located here

  • Autumn river scroll

    Autumn river scroll

    This was part of a scroll I made as a gift for a friend’s laurel ceremony. It is a revised version of the first autumn scroll I did

  • Waka poem from Taketori no Monogatari – Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

    Waka poem from Taketori no Monogatari – Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

    Waka poem from Taketori no Monogatari – Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Taketori no Monogatari, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is one of the oldest known pieces of Japanese literature. It is a story of the girl Kaguya who is found in the stem of a bamboo, is courted by a number of men…

  • Autumn poetry scroll documentation

    Autumn poetry scroll documentation

    Chigiri-e waka – Japanese calligraphy poetry scroll on a collage page Medieval Japan had a strong literary tradition of poetry, fiction and drama. Some of these works were even written by female writers. I have created a scroll in this tradition, using the elements that the same writers used at this time. What I have…