Trendafila Trendafilova II

I love these simple line paintings by Trendafila Trendafilova, painted on a jigsaw base of emulsioned newspaper and yellow pages.

Alex Dipple III

Alex Dipple's amazing work with nespapers has extended from all of the fullstops to text boxes from the Friday ad.

Alex Dipple II

Celestial constellations of newspaper stars by the wonderful collage artist Alex Dipple. who's work I featured last year.

Result of Donald Baechler inspired classes

 

A month ago I featured work by Donald Baechler . 
Sometimes when I put artist/illustrators on 'theartroom' I then go to the real art room and share it with my students as inspiration. 

These students have drawn the art room plants and drawn profiles to interpret in the style of Donald Baechler. 
Once drawn they were cut out of cardboard. We then used newsprint that I mixed with hot water and blended to a pulp, to apply to the card. The newsprint pulp is quite strong and when it drys it looks like egg boxes. you can apply it to chicken wire for bigger shapes/ sculptures.
It is a very wet process but after a week they are dry and you can paint them. We incorporated narrow strips of wood and then stood the sculptures up by embedding them into wooden bases.

Newsprint painting

 Above: Lee, Below: Joan Cargil

 Above: Lynn McRobbie, Below: Joan Cargil

These are the pictures that my students produced after seeing Phoebe Washburn's works, this is an adult learner class.

Phoebe Washburn

There is something lovely about newspaper; the type, the pictures, the history and the delicacy of the paper, to name a few. 
These pictures caught my eye when I was researching the work of Phoebe Washburn yesterday for the Furniture blog. I went into work, showed my students this work and then gave it to my class as a challenge while they waited for other work to dry etc. There were some lovely results which I will share soon.

Gabriel Vormstein

Gabriel Vormstein works on old newspaper and plastic often reinterpreting and reinterpreting iconic women from modern masterpieces by Klimt, Warhol, Baldessari, Schiele and Modigliani.

Alex Dipple

Alex Dipple cuts out all the dots . . . full stops and bullet points are cut out of newspapers and composed into these beautiful graphic images.