Customized Washi Paper
Karen Elaine shows examples of the many ways you can customize washi paper!
This livestream covered monoprinting, Suminagashi (marbling), Momigami (wrinkling paper until it's like fabric), stamping, rubbing, printing and more.
In the following livestream (December 15) Karen will show you some fun ways to use your customized washi paper to create seasonal crafts and decorations
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This video was originally livestreamed on the Yasutomo Facebook page on Friday, 12/1/23.
Items Used
For an easy, shoppable overview of the items used in this demo, visit our Customized Washi Papers collection HERE.
Listed roughly in order of appearance in the video:
- Hosho Paper pad, 48 sheets 9" x 12" (6H) - Karen particularly loves this for gel printing, Suminagashi (Japanese marbling) and Momigami (wrinkling paper to make it like fabric)
- Gasen (6G) also available in larger sheets (6G5)
- Torinoko (6T) also available in larger sheets (6T5)
- Usugami (6U)
- Hanshi Paper (6A, 500 sheets and 6E, 100 sheets) - very thin tissue paper; traditionally for Asian calligraphy practice; Karen likes this for stamping!
- Memento ink pad (not sold by Yasutomo)
- Japanese techniques Karen mentioned: Suminagashi (Japanese marbling), Momigami (wrinkled paper), Shibori (Japanese tie dye), Orizome (dip-dyed paper)
- Liquid Sumi Ink (KF2) - Karen used this for the black suminagashi prints
- Vermilion Ink (KV2) - Karen used this for the orange suminagashi prints
- Washi Paper Pad (6JM) - Karen likes this paper for crayon rubbings and Shibori (dip-dyed papers)
- Niji Artist Crayons (NAC12, NAC18) for crayon rubbings on our large Washi Paper pad (6JM)
- Gel Printing is great on Hosho paper (6H) and large washi paper pads (6JM)
- Laser printing works on all our papers (EXCEPT for Hanshi Paper - 6A, 6E)
- Holiday gift wrap looking paper was done on large washi pads (6JM)
- Brayer painting demo: Large washi paper (6JM), a brayer with a toilet paper roll wrapped with baker's twine, and paint: Karen is using Holbein's mat acrylic in silver and Liquitex acrylic in light blue (both not sold by Yasutomo)
- Nova Color paint (not sold by Yasutomo)
- Crayon rubbing demo: large washi paper (6JM), Joggles stencil (not sold by Yasutomo), Niji Artist Crayons (NAC12, NAC18) - Karen selected dark blue, light blue, white and gray
- Karen mentioned "back coating" origami paper - a technique of fusing papers together to make a double-sided paper
Find Karen online:
Instagram: instagram.com/karenelainecreative/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KarenElaine
Tag us in your posts on Instagram @yasutomo_art and @karenelainecreative so we can see your creations 