Ten Keys Ten Ways - That's 100 Keys! - All made from Paper
I'd been thinking of making Ten Keys Ten Ways out of paper for a long time...and then in November of 2016 I began a process that took a surprisingly large amount of time. Initially I made ten templates of keys and began working through my chosen paper styles:
- paperquilling (standard quilling paper)
- paperquilling (hand cut or "fat" quilling paper)
- paper mache
- embossed vellum
- paper sculpture
- paper clay
- pop-up cards
- terraskin paper impressions
- paper collage
- glitter
I did experience some "learnings" while working through the initial keys (especially as the first few templates I used were complicated - nothing like setting the frustration bar high). My brain became more engaged with the design of each key as I worked through it. By the time I finished creating from template four I decided it would make more sense to work through one medium at a time (instead of one template at a time). It's fair to say that my paper medium techniques improved by using this 10X challenge. It's also fair to say that this task seemed overwhelming. But hey, I did it!
I thought I'd get a picture of all the keys from this series but there were too many - too many for the table, the extra table - and too many for one picture. So here they are, batched by medium:
