Rolled sheet of color study wrapping paper showing overlapping translucent paint circles on cream

Vintage Color Study Polka Dot Wrap Paper

30" x 36" / Glossy
$15.99
$15.99
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Rolled sheet of color study wrapping paper showing overlapping translucent paint circles on cream
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  • Rolled sheet of color study wrapping paper showing overlapping translucent paint circles on cream
  • Gift box wrapped in polka dot paint circle paper with ribbon on a neutral background
  • Detail of overlapping paint circles in magenta, navy, orange and green on warm cream paper
  • Flat lay of color study wrapping paper showing the full scattered circle repeat pattern
  • Close-up of overlapping paint circles where pigments mix to show secondary and tertiary colors
  • Rolled sheet of color study wrapping paper showing overlapping translucent paint circles on cream
  • Gift box wrapped in polka dot paint circle paper with ribbon on a neutral background
  • Detail of overlapping paint circles in magenta, navy, orange and green on warm cream paper
  • Flat lay of color study wrapping paper showing the full scattered circle repeat pattern
  • Close-up of overlapping paint circles where pigments mix to show secondary and tertiary colors
Vintage Color Study Polka Dot Wrap Paper

Vintage Color Study Polka Dot Wrap Paper

$15.99
$15.99
Description

Every painter who works seriously with color keeps a test sheet somewhere: a page, a scrap of paper, a corner of the palette pad where pigments have been swatched, overlapped, and left to dry. These are not finished works. They are thinking made visible, the residue of decisions about what goes next to what. The color study wrapping paper is drawn from that tradition: a scattered repeat of translucent paint circles, overlapping and layered in the manner of a serious studio test, on the warm cream ground of a working painter's paper.

The palette is full and considered: magenta, navy, orange, forest green, chrome yellow, crimson, teal, dusty rose, deep purple. Each circle carries the slightly grainy, pigment-heavy quality of paint laid down with intention, and where the circles overlap the mixtures are exactly what they should be. This is what color looks like when someone is paying attention to it.

The scattered repeat requires no alignment before cutting: any section of the sheet works equally well. It suits any gift with a connection to painting, drawing, color, or the studio. The reverse is plain white and takes handwriting well. Printed on 90 gsm fine art paper in three sizes and two finishes.

Specifications & Care

  • Roll size: 30" × 36" · 30" × 72" · 30" × 180" (selected at checkout)
  • Paper weight: 90 gsm fine art paper
  • Finish options: Matte or Glossy (selected at checkout)
  • Print: Full-color digital print, vibrant archival-quality inks
  • Design: Scattered translucent paint circle repeat on warm cream ground
  • Best for: Art gifts, studio parcels, any occasion that suits something painterly

Store flat or rolled in a cool, dry location. The scattered repeat needs no alignment before cutting. The reverse is plain white and takes handwriting well.

A Note from Jeff

The color study sheet is the most private thing in a painter's studio: provisional, unselfconscious, genuinely useful. I have always found them beautiful precisely because they were never meant to be. This paper tries to bring that quality into a domestic context, to make something you can give to someone who cares about color and have them understand immediately why you chose it.
A Note from Jeff

The most useful thing I keep on my desk is a pad of cheap watercolor paper where I test colors before I commit to them: a smear of one pigment, a circle of another, an overlap to see what the mixture does. These sheets accumulate. They are not finished anything; they are just thinking, recorded. After a while they start to look like something, and occasionally they look like something quite good.

This paper began with one of those sheets. The circles on it are paint, and the warm ground is the paper showing through, and the overlaps are exactly what happens when you put those pigments together. It is, in the most direct sense I know, a color study. I am glad it became wrapping paper.
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Vintage Color Study Polka Dot Wrap Paper

30" x 36" / Glossy