Paper Weaving 2

Good morning, today we're going to be weaving our strips through the black background for our art paper wheezing. When you're finished, it might look something like this. As we're choosing the colorful strips that we'll use to weave over and under the different paper segments, one of the things that we can think about is what meaning we associate with each color. Colors can evoke different meanings for different people. These are some examples of what meanings or different colors might represent. For example, the color red might represent energy, strength, power, and courage. The color blue could represent loyalty, trust, stability, or confidence. I also think of blue as a very calming and relaxing color. Purple, this long been associated with royalty, and here they suggest that it is associated with luxury, creativity, mystery, and ambition. I think of orange is a very happy color. And here they think it can also be associated with excitement, fun, and action, yellow is often associated with happiness or cheerfulness. Pink can read related to friendship or hope, black might you might think of style wealth elegance. Green, you would see a lot in nature, so it makes sense that some of the meanings we would tie to the color green are harmony, safety, balance, and growth. And other colors that are moving more specific than these ones like, for example, the colors that we have like Turquoise, you could think about what colors and what meanings that color would hold for you. And then we can think about how those meanings would go together when we begin to leave our paper strips. So that's one way to think about what kind of colors you want to choose. We can also think about how we want to arrange the colors next to each other. Do you want to have repeating colors? Do you want to make some kind of pattern? I really like the way analogous colors look next to each other. Analogous colors are colors that are next to each other in the color wheel. So I'm going to start with these analogous colors as I weave through my black paper. I've got my first strip and I've got my artwork here. What I need to do is first I want to check that I'm weaving on the empty side. It doesn't really matter because we could flip it over when we're done. I just find it less distracting if I'm looking at the side that doesn't have the lines where I drew. I want to go over and under every other strip. It doesn't really matter if you start over or under, as long as you do the next strip that we're going to leave the opposite way. So every time I get to a new strip, I'm going to go over and under over under all the way across. And at the end, I want to make sure I'm continuing the pattern too. Then a very important part that a lot of students skip or don't do completely is to scrunch it down. I really want to gently coax this paper strip all the way to the bottom. Sometimes if you weren't careful cutting out, it'll get caught on the little line, and then you can just use your hands to move it. So I'm squishing it down to the very bottom, gently unhooking it when I need to. Then I'm ready for my next strip, whatever color you chose. And this time we really want to make sure we're weaving the opposite direction. So if this one is starting over, this black column with the red, I want to start under. I really want to make sure it's doing the opposite. And I would leave all the way across and then squish it down just like I did the first one. After this strip, I'm going to go ahead and leave a few more strips so we can talk about what to do as you get closer to the end of your weaving. Of course, each with each new strip, I want to squish it down as I go. And I want to make sure it's doing the opposite of the strip below it. So with my next color, I'm going to do it the same way I did the first one. So I'll start over and then under. And I'll leave it all the way across. One tip as you're moving is to make sure that you're going slow enough that you're not ripping the paper. Especially when you get to areas where there are corners in the design lines that we cut, we really want to be careful, so we're not going to rip the paper as we're moving it. We want to try to move the paper gently and slowly so that it's going to look good as we're going. As you get towards the end, it might be slightly more challenging to leave your strips through. And you might have to use your fingers to help lift and create the openings. So now especially I'm really going slowly so I don't tear my paper. It looks gently sliding each strip through, particularly before my final strip because I still have room for one more. I really want to take the time to squish all of these down again. Now that they're all in here, it's easier to see these tiny little gaps of black space. So I'm going to start from the bottom and work my way to the top squishing each layer down. So I have room to fit my final strip. This is important so we can really weave all of the way. You might be surprised how much space this will create by squishing them down once you've got most of your strips, but not all of them in here. All right. As I weave this last strip, it's still pretty narrow here. So I'm just going to go extra slowly and take my time. Sometimes I like to use a corner to kind of start it. And then I can twist it to set the whole strip through. So I'm really being careful with the paper. Now that I have such a small area, I'm working with. And like I said, leading with the corner as sometimes helps to be able to fit it through. I have a little tiny work in my paper there. If it happens, it's not the end of the world, but we do want to try to be careful and do our best. The nice thing about fitting all of these strips in, if you fold your paper all of the way, it'll be so secure that you won't need very much glue to secure your strips. I'm still going to put a tiny dot of glue at the edges just so the edges stay nice and neat. But the glue isn't really necessary. Because we've fully woven all of the areas. All right, so now I'm just going to tweak it and adjust these so they are nice and lined up. I can check that everything is full. There's no extra space. And you can see that because my lines are coming together really nice and neatly. With a glue stick, I can open it and just twist it up a tiny, tiny bit. We never want to have way too much glue showing because that can smash it and waste it. So I just want to have a tiny little bit of glue showing. And I can use a little tiny dot, just to stick these bends down so it'll look really nice and neat. And that is the conclusion of our offer paper weaving. I would finish gluing all of these strips and then you'll be done with this project.