I have been making beautiful coloured paper and have been priveleged to spend four days with Velma Bolyard learning how to spin Kami-ito (paper thread) and to weave it into shifu (paper cloth). This is my drop spindle spinning the paper but not my shifu on the loom, that belongs to someone else in Velma's workshop. My shifu is wobbly and is a good measure of my skill level.
So now I have had time to plan some workshops for you, to keep you entertained through Autumn and Winter. As always, if you want to take part in the workshop but the date doesn't suit, let me know and another date might be arranged.
BYO lunch and hard cover book which you are prepared to take the text section out of and some small items you wish to cast your paper over. I have keys, spoons and other small items you can use too.
This one day workshop is an opportunity to try some paper casting over interesting objects. You will make suitable paper, cast the paper over your objects and make a box to display your artwork. The display box will be made with a cover from a discarded book which you will transform into a box. You will also make a book or two related to the idea of your subject choice to include in the box.
You may also choose to spend the day experimenting just casting paper.
You will learn paper casting, box making and simple book making.
BYO lunch, notebook and collection
Venue: Barb's Studio Box Hill
No white paper will be visible at the end of this exploration of paper and its surface possibilities. There will be opportunities to make your own paper and work with a variety of commercial and handmade papers, enjoying the changes made with dye, stitch, print and resists. We will work with 'collections' as a starting point for ideas and inspiration. The resulting papers will be bound into a book or two in a range of styles which can act as a repository for special words or be an art work in their own right. This creative supportive environment will nourish your ideas and embolden your creative spirit.
You will be contacted after you have registered to help you decide what to bring as your 'collection'
TOO GOOD TO WRITE IN
Many people have said to me that they have a precious book that they have made or been given and it is too good to write in. This workshop invites you to bring a blank book that you would like to start working in.
Treat your blank book like an invitation. Enrich the pages, add colour, pattern and texture. As Dorothy Simpson Krause says, 'Your book will begin to sing, beguile, soothe and excite.' The complexity you add will make your pages richer.
This workshop will teach you ways to add content to an already bound book. We will start working in the book, preparing the pages for added content. With guidance, you will be encouraged to cut windows in the pages, add colour and remove some pages to make way for other inclusions. Before you come, give some thought to how you might use your book. Will it be a travel journal, a recipe book, a daily journal, a book of wise words – your own or someone else's - or a book in which to record some of your family history.
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Workshops taylored to your needs can be organised on request.
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Box Hill, Victoria, Australia.