After a long hiatus on updating this blog, I have started adding new content as papershine prepares for the New Year. I’ve added a new page on planning with a PATH, as well as a PATH tutorial.
I’ve also added some new art cards, including these of stonework completed at my other job. Stay tuned for a new bulldozer poster.
On Friday Papershine hosted it’s first Poster Party and Art Show at the West End Bakery in West Asheville. The event was to celebrate the creation of Papershine- our educational design studio- and the release of Learning Murals, our first product line. The event was well-attended by the under-7 set and their parents. We had four poster-coloring stations set up around the bakery and hundreds and hundreds of crayons and colored pencils. It was great fun and very noisy. The bakery provided tiny PB&J sandwiches, cookies and brownies.
Our friend Todd brought his one year old son Lucas, seen here exchanging crayons with Abe before they tackled Abe’s Alphabet together.
It was fantastic to see how many parents got involved and colored with their kids. The greatest thing about the size of the Learning Murals is how it allows collaboration. A whole family can work together on a poster. It’s such a natural and fun way to interact and play together.
Kristin and I would like to thank the many people who made this all come together: Cathy, Krista, Louis, Reid and everyone else at the bakery for letting us take it over for an evening; all of our contributing artists- Lucy, Chelsea, Amy, Athena, Bergen, Sirus, Jerome, Sara, Jason, the Red Stick Ramblers, Grace, Matt, Henry, Linda and Gary; Will and compnay at Henco Reprographics for printing the posters and being so supportive; Merrimon Galleries for an excellent job mounting the art work, Sara for staffing the wine table and the Asheville Mamas for showing up in force.
Thanks for the color.
