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 interesting 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
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
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
Hi Barb,
I would like to book in for your Down to Earth workshop on
October 26. I couldn’t see an option for booking & payment, so thought I’d just contact you and ask how you like to do that.
Could you please let me know? I’m happy to do a direct bank transfer if you offer that as an option. Should I include the materials fee at the same time, paying you a total of $80?
Look forward to working with you again,
Cheers, Mary