This intensive, exciting hands-on workshop is inventive, with contemporary, creative methods, that can be spontaneous, simple and direct. Concepts for invention and good fun will be directed in a collaborative atmosphere.
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!
