a short video of my collaborative gift wrap artwork with my niece. It was early in the morning and not too much light, so the colors in the video are slightly dark. I'm having so much fun spending time with her and she loves art supplies, bright colors and always wants to play with her crayons...takes after her auntie :)
This year I decided to make wrapping paper by recycling old architecture renderings. They are perfect for painting and make great wrapping paper because of their large size. I painted with various acrylic paint and made marks with water soluble oil pastels, graphite pencils and India ink drizzled with a pipette.
{above} this piece is the collaboration created with my little niece Pua featured in the video. Every morning since I've been visiting, she wakes up and says "crayons", "crayons please"...and points to them. So I've been giving her mini art lessons every day. soon i'll be teaching her how to paint and collage. she already loves the sewing machine, every time I start working on it, she comes up to sit on my lap...gotta get her started early! :)
more gift wrap ideas...
-recycle holiday cards to make gift tags or paper ornaments
-wrap your gifts with recycled materials...use shopping bags or paint grocery bags and newsaper, use priority mail envelopes/boxes and turn them inside out to paint/decorate them for packaging.
-recycle all the gift bags you get and reuse them.
-make gift tags with pictures of loved ones
-wrap gifts with Furoshiki Japanese fabric wrapping technique
