RADIAL HINGE BOOK & BIMA

Our September workshop, taught by Kit Davey, provided us with a completely new structure to play with. This circular book, with pages that rotated 360 degrees, was easy to make once we were taught how the hinges work. NORBAG members can view the recording of this workshop and anyone else interested in this structure can check out Kit's website at  https://www.found-object-art.com/, to see if she might teach it again. It will be fun to see if our members use this structure in future book exchanges. Here are a few examples from the workshop.

Mary Conley

Edge Gerring

Bonnie Julien

Thank you Kit for showing us a new structure to play with.

Currently on display in the Sherry Grover gallery at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) in Washington is "Sound Stories: Group Exhibition of Artists' Books".  This exhibit will run through September 24. The following photos are a small sample of the books in the exhibition.

 

Lucia Harrison
Consider What's Lost II

Mare Blocker
Accordion Queen

An Gates
Leonardo da Vinci's Platonic Solids

Debbi Commodore
Take a Moment

Deborah Greenwood
The Land

CIRCULAR BOOK WITH RADIAL HINGES

 Our September workshop will be taught by our member from the San Francisco Bay Area, Kit Davey. On her website at
https://www.found-object-art.com, it says Kit "makes playful art to spread delight across the planet". You'll find this to be true if you visit her website or her Instagram page @daveykit and check out all the whimsical and beautiful books that she makes. She'll be teaching us a circular book with pages that rotate 360 degrees because of unique "hinges" installed on the back. She'll also teach us an unusual case for the book.

Tools Needed:

• 3/4" and 1" circular paper punches. You cannot make the book without them!
• Pencil with eraser
• Ruler
• Exacto knife and cutting mat
• Liquid glue, such as PVA, Modge Podge, mat medium, Elmer's or Yes Glue
• Paintbrushes 1/4" or so wide
• Jar for water
• Circle cutter, if you have one
• Small hole punch (1/8" in diameter) or use an awl to make a small hole
• Small brad (with a head approximately 1/4" in diameter or whatever size you have available)

Materials Instructions:

Important note: You MUST cut out the materials in advance of this workshop! There will not be time to cut things during the Zoom meeting.

Double-sided cardstock or mixed media weight paper will work well for all the elements in this book. Some scrapbooking papers are also stiff enough. Flimsy paper, like magazine pages, dictionary pages or map pages are NOT stiff enough.

• For the pages: six (6) circles made from single-sided or double-sided cardstock, 3" to 3 3/4" in diameter. You can use a glass or something round to trace a circle if you don't have a circle cutter.
• For the radial hinges that will be on the back of a six-page book: 24 3/4" circles and six (6) 1" circles.
• You can embellish the circular book pages before or after class, as we won't have time in class for this.
• For the case: two (2) pieces of cardstock, 4 1/4" by 8" and one small brad. 

When:    Saturday September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT

Where:  On your computer, tablet or smartphone via Zoom

RSVP:    By September 4 to Dolores Guffey to receive the password

Workshop Questions:  Kit Davey (kitdavey@aol.com)

Zoom Questions:  Bobbie Hayes

Contact information for Dolores and Bobbie is in the newsletter.

POP UP AND OUT REDUX

 Our August workshop taught by Kit Davey gave us a great new structure to feature ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) or any decorated card. The book we made had space for four "pop out" cards but you could make it to feature just one card or many more. Our book did not have an additional cover, but Kit demonstrated how to add a cover with a spine for books with more pages. Thank you Kit for introducing us to this new structure. Here are some examples of the books we made.

Michele Kamprath

The plain background pages show off Michele's painted cards.

Michele's beautiful covers.

Cheri Aldrich used her collaged papers
 for the book pages and the cards.

In this photo you can see that if one more page
was added on the left, the book would form a star
shape in the middle.

Cheri's great collages are featured in this structure.

Margaret Beech

Margaret's cover

Margaret used a different color combination
for each of the four page units.

POP UP and OUT BOOK

Book artist Kit Davey will show us how to make a "Pop Up and Out" book at our August workshop. It's a fun, interactive book. When you turn the pages, a card pops up and out of the structure. The book is designed to contain artist trading cards or playing cards (2 1/2" x 3 1/2"). Kit asks that you plan to embellish your cards before or after the class, as she will focus on making the book to contain them during the workshop. 

To see more of Kit's work, go to her website:

www.Found-Object-Art.com or 

her Instagram page.  www.Instagram.com/daveykit

Tools Needed:

• Scissors
• Exacto knife and cutting mat
• Pencil with eraser
• Ruler with metal edge
• Bone folder
• Liquid glue, such as PVA, Modge Podge, Elmer's
• 1/4" and/or 1/2" wide brush, water container, and rag
• Optional: double-sided tape

Materials:

You must cut out the materials in advance of the class! There will not be time to cut things out during class.

For the pages:

• Eight (8) pieces double-sided (with a pattern or color on both sides) cardstock, 4" x 6"

For the cards:

• Four (4) pieces double-sided cardstock 2 1/2" by 3 1/2" -artist trading card size/same size as playing cards. Note: We will NOT be embellishing them during the workshop--please plan to do that before or after the workshop.

When:     Saturday August 13 at 10 a.m. PDT
Where:   On your computer, tablet or smartphone via Zoom
RSVP:     To Dolores Guffey by August 8 to receive the password
Workshop questions:  Kit Davey
Zoom questions:   Bobbie Hayes
Contact information will be in the newsletter.

If you're in the Eureka area be sure to check out the latest kiosk exhibit at the Humboldt County Library. This exhibit features books with pockets that can hold bookmarks. Thank you Kenzie Mullen for arranging the display.