JULY News

Hello everyone,

Deep Winter has set in and slowed me up a little but I do have a Coptic Binding workshop for you in August, a Small Book binding day in September and to celebrate Spring a day of REAL play with rust indigo and wax in October.

Three Workshops August September and October

Back to the Binding

Coptic Binding with an easy cover thanks to Sandy Webster

This workshop is perfect for beginner binders or a revision for those of you who want to revisit the beautiful Coptic Stitching. A journal created with this stitch opens beautifully flat for writing or drawing in. The hard cover will have an ineresting edge which protects the pages and there will be the option of including some pockets. If you know what your journal will be used for, you might like to bring things to include. For example, if it is to be a travel journal you might bring images or information about the area you will visit. This can be bound in as you stitch the other pages to the cover. What ever you decide, at the end of the day you will have a beautiful journal to use or give away.

Tuesday 22nd August 2017

Time: 10 - 3

Place: Box Hill North

$70 plus $5 materials fee.

All materials provided. If you have something you want to bind into your book you can bring it with you.

BYO Lunch Tea & Coffee provided

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Small is Beautiful

Make several small books and a fold out box from a map.

Working small is a great way to begin. The small books we make on this day will fit in the fold out box we construct from our map. The slip on lid will hold our box together when our project is complete. This day can be spent constructing a model from a commercial map or be a personal journey as you make your own map , which you bring along, into the box we construct. If the map you bring inspires the content of your books you might like to bring other maps, photos or drawings to include on the day. We will explore some collage and folding with maps.

When our books are removed from the box it will open out revealing our map.

Thankyou for teaching me this folded box Val.

Sunday 17th September 2017

Time: 10 - 4

Place: Box Hill North

$70 plus $5 materials fee.

Most materials provided. If you have a map you would like to use for this project you can bring it with you.

The map needs to be at least 20cm square.

BYO Lunch Tea & Coffee provided

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Down to Earth

A day of experimenting and creating with rust indigo and wax resist on paper.

The beginning of any art project is gathering the inspirational materials. At this workshop you will spend the day guided by me as you transform many different paper surfaces.  Dipping in indigo, exploring the rusting baths and working with cold wax as a resist, will provide you with a multitude of delightfully coloured papers. There may even be time to make some marks with my on your papers with 'natural' brushes. These lovely papers will be suitable to use in your artwork and there will be an opportunity at the end of the day to plan a follow up book binding workshop, if you want to bind some of your papers into a book at a later date.

Recipes included in the instructions provided.

Thursday 26th October

Time: 10 - 4

Place: Box Hill North

$70 plus $10 materials fee.

Most materials provided. Please bring some watercolour paper to dye. It doesn't have to be expensive watercolour paper. The size and shape doesn't matter.

BYO Lunch Tea & Coffee provided

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What have I been doing?

The Too Good To Write In workshop was great fun with some wonderful results. Thankyou to those who came and joined in enthusiastically.

Lynne Bennett Chris Smith

Something which took a lot of my creative brain power was a book in a box that I have been making for a swap with my sister in Townsville. BUT as I haven't taken it up to her yet I can't show you any photos.....well perhaps just this one. I experimented very successfully with embedding my paper and Honesty seed cases in beeswax.

More later, when I have handed over the box.

As a cold winter night activity, I have been quietly stitching on my odd pieces of Indigo and rust papers. I'm not sure what the end result will be.

When I really came to a creative stand still in the beginning of July, I used the idea of starting small and worked on some cards. I had been to a collage exhibition at Hawthorn and didn't think any of it had made an impression on me, but it had. I cut these people out of an old damaged book given to me by a friend. Next I collaged them on to some printed cards of mine that needed something more added. I really enjoyed the flexibility of the collaging process.

More workshops to be announced soon.

Please send requests if you have something special you would like to learn.

Remember that Papermakers of Victoria will have a wonderful program of workshops running this year so keep an eye on their web site.

I am doing the Joomchi workshop run by Liz Powell who is a wonderful tutor. The workshop is 11th &12th November.

http://papermakers.org.au/workshops/

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

www.barbadams.com

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