Su Blackwell is an amazing paper artist who creates a variety of 3-D sculptures, often out of second hand books. Check out the portfolio on her site. That’s what this post was going to focus on until I watched this video made by Crabtree and Evelyne. The company approached Blackwell to do a job for them and also made this video. It describes how she goes to first additions for inspiration only (she does not craft with first editions), the basic inspiration for a piece, how long it takes her to make a sculpture, and the actual process.
It is fairly easy to see the backbone that the book itself forms in Blackwell’s work, how she draws on something pre-existing and uses it as a platform for a new creation.
Does this make you think about your own work any differently?
–SueBE
