Making Paste Papers
With Natural Colour
An Online Demonstration with Suzi Banks-Buam
Tuesday 7th December 2027 4-6pm GMT
Paste papers are made with one part printmaking rigor and one part childlike freewheeling fun. Since the Renaissance, painters have thickened pigment with starchy pudding-like pastes that extend colour and hold marks made on large sheets of paper.
These colourful, versatile papers can be used to make book covers, mail art, and as collage elements. Suzi will demonstrate the set-up, including making paste. Then, using plant and mineral pigments, Suzi will demonstrate making paste sheets using a variety of easily accessed tools.
Access 2 hours of live online teaching (live & recorded)
Printable Handout
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Suzi Banks Buam
Suzi Banks Baum is a mother, writer, book artist. She follows the thread of daily creative practice through her visual and literary work. Entirely obsessed with marigolds, Suzi’s pursuit with naturally derived color fuels a desire to reduce plastics in studio practice and draws her into the Berkshire landscape she calls home. A national workshop leader in the US, Suzi teaches book arts with a focus on technique and a wild array of paper decoration. Suzi created a book arts residency in Gyumri, Armenia where she has taught for 4 years. Her mixed media work appears in Collage Your Life by Melanie Mowinski. Her writing appears in a variety of literary journals, including Open Secrets Magazine online and in the Guild of Book Workers journal. A skilled needleworker, her embroidered Story Cloth is featured in Does It Have Pockets online.
