Hello everyone,

I hope you are keeping warm and finding time to follow your artisitic pursuits.

What have I been doing?

   A day at The Papermakers Stable Studio provided time to experiment with decorating book pages as we made them.  

  We added pockets, windows and coloured pulps. 

My latest book structure has a wrap around soft cover to protect it while it is carried from place to place.

   My shifu experiments continue.  This paper person has a shifu trim on her handmade paper cape.  Her paper head was cast over a wooden doll                                         head while experimenting in my paper casting workshop.

WORKSHOPS

Well, it is Winter and people have been gathering here to make books and paper.

Last week a group of women let their hair down and made some great books.  They experimented with a multitude of ways to make their book pages interesting and inviting.

Here are some of Jenni's pages.

Other Workshops 

As a result of the fun we had on this day, I created another workshop which will run in September at Meeniyan. http://www.meeniyanartgallery.com.au/

Workshop - 'A Book of Possibilities'

Meeniyan Art Gallery   Saturday 10th September  10am - 4pm

'It is possible to easily and quickly create pages that sing and weep, inform and beguile, transport, soothe and excite.' Dorothy Simpson Krause

In this workshop you will learn how to make a wrap around book structure and have the chance to experiment with many different ways to include content in your book, be it art work or text.

You will spend some wonderful hours weaving a theme or story into our book, adding content and colour. You will be invited to treat your blank book as an invitation: enrich the pages with pattern and texture. Your book will then act as a reference for future book making and be a work of art in itself. You will be given guidance as you cut windows, fold pages, add borders, sew and add texture.

We will work on the pages when the book is bound giving you skills you can use when you return to 'blank' books you may have and start using them.

Some class notes will be provided.

I will always run a papermaking workshop for two or more people.  Would you like to make some paper for a special project?  Let me know and we can plan how to do it.

 Remember that Papermakers of Victoria always have a wonderful program of workshops running.  

Visit my web site for more images and information about other workshops I run.

Workshops taylored to your needs can be organised on request.

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