WORDS AS ART

 Australian book artist and paper engineer, Jean Kropper, will be teaching our July workshop. How exciting!! Thanks to Zoom this workshop will likely include participants from three continents! Jean writes, "When talking to people in my book arts group, I realized most of us had made many beautifully bound books that were blank. I had too. I wondered, why? I realized we had not had a process, the design skills, or confidence to put our own stories in them. I wanted to help change this by creating exercises to build skills to use our own stories in book art, art journals and artwork. As a first exercise, I will show you techniques to create your own unique handwriting styles to use Words as Art. These styles can be used for different creative projects: as patterns for book covers, artwork, and in art journals to tell your stories."

Whether your handwriting is messy or neat, whether you like your handwriting or not, Jean will show you creative ways to play with it. View a two minute video about Jean's business, Paper and Pixel, at youtube.com/watch?v=_x6MosS5ZqY. Jean explains that the video "shows some of my history in book and paper art and some of the commercial work I do as a paper engineer--that is designing pop-up print promotions for event invitations and direct mail." For more information about Jean and her work visit her website at paperandpixel.com.au.

Materials Needed:

• Pencil
• Fine and medium point black markers
• Two (2) sheets of white paper
• Jean's worksheet - When you RSVP for this workshop, Dolores will send you the pdf of Jean's worksheet. Please print it out in advance.

When:  Saturday, July 10 at 12 Noon, Pacific Time 

Where: On your computer, tablet or smartphone via Zoom

RSVP:   YES to Dolores Guffey by July 5 to receive password and Jean's workshop

Workshop questions: ideas@paperandpixel.com.au

Zoom questions: Bobbie Hayes

Contact information for Dolores and Bobbie is in the newsletter.