Botanical-Eco Printing Workshop – High Summer
Print impressions of leaves and flowers in bundle that are steamed onto paper and fabric.
Print impressions of leaves and flowers in bundle that are steamed onto paper and fabric.
Print an elegant series of one-of-a-kind prints with plant material that take ink and also block ink, for an endless creative process.
This is a traditional bookbinder “end of day” use of wheat-starch paste with designs combed and pulled through the color paste onto paper.
Get “into the drawing zone” and add embellishments with collage for new layers of meaning.
We stitche a multi-legged “creature” across the book covers and spine. It is beautiful and complex appearing, but with a logical repetitive stitch.
Bind the book with a uniquely movable structure and visible stitching, then build a classic slipcase to house this book.
Make beautiful handmade paper with fun and experimental ways to add interest, designs, multi-colors.
Use of the Vandercook presses for quick impressions that “capture” the patterns from cut stencils then play with handcoloring in the French pochoir technique….more stencil fun and surprises!
Harvest papermaking fibers from your garden for unique sheets with special characteristics, as we make nature inspired handmade paper.
Learn this traditional process that has stood the test of time, as an enhanced way to draw onto copper plates.