It is my friends wedding next Wednesday morning and I have bought her a nice bison ceramic salad bowl in a pretty sagey green colour with wooden salad servers. Lately I have gone off purchasing wrapping paper, the designs are either boring or horrendously expensive and just not in my budget but the time the present is purchased. I have a big roll of brown paper I'm using as a base for everything and I just wrap it in an unusual style with odd folded flaps or oragami flourishes at the end, then I can wrap ribbons round it or stick a small bit of feature paper from my supplies to it. For a wedding though something special is required so I dug out my roll of Chinese Silk Paper and paints and did a brush painting of some blue flowers... I forgot I was going to put yellow centres on them once they had dried and in the confusion I wrapped the present before going "oops" I still think it looks find though.
A few weeks ago for my friends birthday I did her a chinese brush painting of a mountain landscape. She was the one who kindly gave me a framed picture of a duck for my birthday. I decided to make this into a scroll type painting with two balsa rounds.
The Japanese Haiku in the top corner is very nice and when I get home I will look it up and add it onto this post in a bit
I wish I had a scanner to get a better image of these, they photograph poorly with my mobile phone
Thanks for sharing this . . .
ReplyDeleteThese are very neat!
ReplyDeleteI like to use homemade wrapping paper too. But yours is much more beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of creating your own wrapping paper...it makes the gift much more personal and exciting.
ReplyDeleteAnd such a beautiful Chinese painting of course!! It's proudly displayed on my lounge room wall :)