The Playful Antiquarian

More Friday frivolity: Halloween paper art

October 31st, 2003

It is Friday and time for a little frivolity–with a Halloween theme. I promise that this is the last silly post of the day, as there are many serious things to write about, particularly all of the Works on Paper Weekend happenings. But before I write seriously about works on paper, I would like to write (not so seriously) about having fun with paper art.I have probably mentioned this before, but Robert Sabuda is my favorite pop-up book artist. I noticed these pop-up how-tos on his site earlier this month but decided to wait until today to post the link. The bat and the witch are very appropriate for Halloween; the Christmas tree and the valentine are not so much so, but I will leave it up to your imagination and your own paper art proclivities.

Granted, pop-up cards may not be a reasonable project to do during a break at work. That is when it is time to turn to the How to Draw a Radish desk calendar (or any of Joy Sikorski’s books). Today’s calendar project (if you do not have the calendar) is a sticky note jack-o’-lantern, and I have all of the supplies at hand (orange and yellow sticky notes and an art knife). Unfortunately, this project is not online, but Joy Sikorski’s website has many other projects for creative cubicle-ites (and archives/rare book processing workstation dwellers).

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