Friday Night Fix – Altered Book, Week 6

 

Workshop 6 brings all your creative efforts together by adding repeat motifs and patterns throughout the work. You will use both commercial and handmade stamps to create a sense of narrative and continuity in your finished book.

Approximate run time: 21 minutes

Presenter: Linda Kemshall

Workshop 6 brings all your creative efforts together by adding repeat motifs and patterns throughout the work. You will use both commercial and handmade stamps to create a sense of narrative and continuity in your finished book.
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During the six workshops Linda uses:

An old book
A collection of Ephemera
Packaging/labels
Photographs/photocopies
Gesso
Acrylic matte medium
Acrylic paints
Paintbrushes
Single strand embroidery thread, needle with a large eye
Oil pastel
Watercolour paints
Craft knife and cutting mat
Compressed sponge stamps
Commercial stamps.

The other workshops in this course...

Workshop 1 provides an introduction to the project. Linda advises how to choose the ideal book to alter and suggests the type of ephemera to begin collecting.
Altered Books

Friday Night Fix – Altered Book, Week 1

Workshop 1 provides an introduction to the project. Linda advises how to choose the ideal book to alter and suggests the type of ephemera to begin collecting.

Workshop 2 looks at a variety of ways to prepare pages and make your book the perfect vehicle for the fun techniques of collage, print and paint.
Altered Books

Friday Night Fix – Altered Book, Week 2

Workshop 2 looks at a variety of ways to prepare pages and make your book the perfect vehicle for the fun techniques of collage, print and paint.

Workshop 3 focuses on achieving the combination of colourful washes with resist and how to accentuate the surface textures you have created with applications of fluid paint or ink.
Altered Books

Friday Night Fix – Altered Book, Week 3

Workshop 3 focuses on achieving the combination of colourful washes with resist and how to accentuate the surface textures you have created with applications of fluid paint or ink.

Workshop 4 includes the creation of apertures and niches to house 3D treasures, photographs and found objects.
Altered Books

Friday Night Fix – Altered Book, Week 4

Workshop 4 includes the creation of apertures and niches to house 3D treasures, photographs and found objects.

Workshop 5 is about creative use of photographs and photocopies. Linda shows examples of flaps and page extensions to integrate extra pages and alter size and proportion of your book.
Altered Books

Friday Night Fix – Altered Book, Week 5

Workshop 5 is about creative use of photographs and photocopies. Linda shows examples of flaps and page extensions to integrate extra pages and alter size and proportion of your book.