Exuberant
Xmas Paper that celebrates properly Schmaltzy Trees.
If any paper ever perfectly captured the riotious color of a properly schmaltzy German Christmas tree---the kind my mom remembers from her childhood and put up during mine---this is it---colored lights, ornaments in every color, so long as they were bright. So, naturally, when I grew up, I determined to have one that matched, the result being that it has no color at all, since I only put silver, white and cream ornaments on it. This has proven to be a mistake, but, oh well.
Three gifts; the largest is about 11x14''. December 2005.
Hm. I notice this stuff, like the other brightly colored paper I used, also has lime green in it...
This gift graphically illustrates the error of shooting down but to one side of a gift, thinking one can rotate it 90 degrees in gimp later. ---I stood to the side of the gifts rather than the perceived top or bottom to keep from blocking the light; as a result a great many of my gift pix have rather skewed senses of `down' to them. But, given the rate I took these pictures, it's lucky I have any at all...
This gift illustrates a technique for using crumpled ribbon: note the mylar (metallic) green ribbon decorating this box. Sections were crumpled---so I just balled the whole thing in my hand to give a consistant, crinkly texture to the ribbon. In fact, even if the ribbon were perfectly new, this would be a good way to take down some of the overwhelming shinyness.
Note the contrast between the two yellow curling ribbons, both in hue and `curliness' ---the less curled one is very old and was originally wound on a fairly small cylinder, and used as is.
file created 26dec05 sylvus tarn
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