Friday Night Fix – Altered Book
£9.00
Description
Join Linda for a series of 6 videos that demonstrate effective techniques to alter a food and drink related book. Originally offered over six weeks, when viewers joined in each week to alter their own book, they are now available in a single package as an archive collection you can view at your own pace and as many times as you like.
This workshop collection contains six videos.
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.
Run time: 10 minutes
Presenter: Linda Kemshall
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.
Run time: 21 minutes
Presenter: Linda Kemshall
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.
Run time: 24 minutes
Presenter: Linda Kemshall
Friday Night Fix, Altered Book – Week 4
Workshop 4 includes the creation of apertures and niches to house 3D treasures, photographs and found objects.
Run time: 20 minutes
Presenter: Linda Kemshall
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.
Run time: 19 minutes
Presenter: Linda Kemshall
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.
Run time: 21 minutes
Presenter: Linda Kemshall