Class Overview - All Levels Embroidering the surface of paper creates an alluringly tactile effect that can enhance any design. During the first half of the workshop, students will experiment with a range of surface design techniques including embroidery...

Class Overview - All Levels Never lose an idea again! Make two single-needle Coptic stitch books in this class to keep your ideas at hand for your next creative session. The first, an idea journal, will have a torn collage cover and large pages for you...

Class Overview - All Levels Why have one tunnel in your artist’s book when you can have four? Learn to make a complex spiral structure that holds four tunnel books. It looks difficult but I’ll teach you step-by-step how to create this...

Class Overview - All Levels This workshop will focus on 2 extraordinary multiple signature book structures. Work with the principles of watermedia surface design in the form of watermedia monotypes, dropped-in watercolor techniques, acrylic ink line...

Class Overview - All Levels We will focus on a unique combination of Collagraph (a form of collage) printmaking, relief block prints, and book structures. Produce printing plates with collage shapes and hot glue to create free flowing designs. Experiment...

Class Overview - All Levels Altering books allows us to begin with a canvas of ideas which we may combine, remove, or change to create a new work. Using collage techniques, including strategic removal to create windows, the addition of colors and...

Class Overview - All Levels Learn to draw! Build confidence or brush up on your skills through drawing and lettering exercises. Learn how to create drawings and add unique drawn letters. These techniques can be used later to enhance your own blank books...

Class Overview - All Levels Create cyanotypes; those lovely indigo images made from nature or from film negatives on rusted and tea stained papers resulting in unique pages. Day 1, participants will be learning techniques as well as compiling notes on...

This class focuses on the wealth of capitals that are at our disposal when we decide to draw or build up our letters. Starting with a basic skeleton alphabet in pencil, Yves will guide you step-by-step as you blow life into your letters, making them...

Learn or improve this classic hand popular for its elegant angles and legibility with Patti Adams.Italic HandPatti Adams, Hosted By Learncalligraphy.com   Live (Also recorded for later viewing)   4/9/2024, 4/13/2024,...

Class Overview - All Levels All that you need to know about marbling on paper and fabric (silk and cotton). Also we’ll talk about working with metallic paint (on paper) and how to create your own book cloth. We’ll discuss color theory and...

Class Overview - All Levels The secretary box features one large bottom drawer, two recessed diagonal drawers, and three niches within a hatch top opening. The box is entirely covered with marbled fabric, dimensions: 10 inches wide, 7 inches deep, and 6...

Class Overview - All Levels We’ll explore at least 10 deceptively simple book arts projects, many of which begin with one sheet of paper transformed into multi-faceted structures, that can become the basis for artist’s books or engaging...

Learn the basics of letter construction and gain a solid foundation for brush lettering (flexible tip). This is a 6-hour class in which you will learn how to use the tools correctly, practice the basic strokes and techniques to form 2 script...

Spread blossom joy! Traci Thompson invites us to compose pointed pen wreaths bursting with blooms.Spring WreathsTraci Thompson, Hosted By Learncalligraphy.com   Live (Also recorded for later viewing)   4/8/2024,...

The Triangle (or Wedge) Brush has become my favorite tool for graceful florals. In this class, we will learn how to use it to achieve graceful leaf and petal shapes. Using the unique qualities of the brush, and through a series of exercises, the will...

Class Overview - All Levels The Sewn Board Binding is one of the most versatile and user friendly structures in the book arts field, both for binders and the book’s end users. In this class students will learn the basics the binding, then explore...

Class Overview - All Levels Join us for an immersive three days, discovering the captivating fusion of block printing and bookbinding. This creative journey empowers you to craft sculptural books that uniquely tell your story. Experience the meditative...

Class Overview - All Levels Think back to the last time you picked up a movable card. You moved the mechanism back and forth, soothed and satisfied by the movement. You wished there was a collective noun for movable cards. Well, there is! Join paper...

Class Overview - All Levels In the 1960’s, Bronx-based Child Guidance Books published a series that exploits a unique mechanical approach to animation: a self-pulling mechanism— integrated into the binding—that causes figures to dance...