Apprenticeship with Lena Wolff

Much of my work with bay area artist Lena Wolff was spent in her backyard studio, dedicated to tasks like hole punching, paper pricking, paper shape cutting, drawing, painting, and supply organizing. What I spent the majority of my time on by choice, was color mixing. Each morning I dove into radiant world of cobalts, turquoises, cadmiums, violets, orchres, and scarlets, watching them swim and combine in my pallet with sensational delight. For my first major project, I set out at creating an elaborate color chart using varied combinations of Lena’s watercolours. As I mixed, I really seemed to get lost in this highly absorptive, meditative  process. I did not literalize what was actually going on-- I sat in the studio alone, silently absorbed in the language of color.  


Lena granted me free time to experiment with color on my own. I created this book, or more of an album, with a collection my favorite colors that I had mixed inside. 

 

I also decided to make another paper sculpture, which is sort of a development from my less thought out sculpture that I made for my dad over winter break. 

 

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