Category: Art

Art, Journals

Stone Paper

Shelly

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I went to Target this morning to pick up glue sticks, and while I was in the stationery section, I looked through their notebooks. I was looking for something with graph paper, but this one caught my eye instead. I’d never heard of stone paper! The first thing I noticed was that the notebook is heavy. It’s also (allegedly) acid free and 100% tree-free. The paper itself has a suede-like texture and is incredibly strong, like plastic sheeting. I tested both Sharpie and another brand of broad-tipped permanent marker on it, with absolutely no bleed-through. It does take slightly longer for gel pen to dry than it does on normal notebook paper, but given the rest of the positives, that’s a small point.

The only real negative is that it’s perfect bound, not sewn. That means that there’s no working across the gutter, and depending on how strong the glue is, pages may fall out. I’d be careful using wet media in it, because it could degrade the glued binding.

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Pen Test

Art, Artist Books, Collage

The Grammarian and His Material

Shelly

The Grammarian and His Material
The Grammarian and His Material
collage (library catalog card, yearbook photos, old book spine, child’s dress pattern, sandpaper, and map) on Arches cover paper
7 1/2 x 11 inches

This book is a little bit bigger than the bed of my scanner, so the left-hand page was cut off, making it look a little uncentered. I’m too lazy to scan each page separately then stitch them together. If I’d been paying closer attention, I would’ve shifted it so that the right-hand page was the one that got cut off, but I wasn’t, and I didn’t, and I am also too lazy to re-scan it. Oopsie!