For my second year of helping with the Thorne Miniature Holiday Exhibit, I was asked to create some paper lanterns for the New Mexico room. Wow! These turned out to be a lot more challenging than I expected them to be. It is very tricky working with paper on that scale… particularly when you want to hand color the paper and get it to bend into those tiny round lanterns. After a lot of experimentation (mostly failures) I was finally pointed in the direction of using rolling papers. It’s pretty funny going into a head shop, describing what type of paper you want to get, and telling them it’s for an “art project.” Gotta give a shout out to the guys at Knuckleheads in Salt Lake City, they were awesome and got all excited about helping me find just the right papers that would work for what I was doing… and loaded me up on a bunch more with fun patterns on them just to help out and be part of the whole creative process. You guys were wonderful!
