TUNNEL BOOK WORKSHOP PHOTOS - November, 2016

This month's meeting was a lot of fun.  Our book exchange had 17 miniature books. Eight of them were from out-of-towners.  (Make sure to stop back by here after the first of the month to see the pictures of the books by tapping on the Guild Flickr Gallery button to the left.) We had a full house for the meeting.

Lara Cox led our workshop. She showed us how to make one version of a tunnel book, but everyone had such creativity that there was a lot of variety in the books that were made.

Lara brought some samples to show us many variations and how to customize our books. We started by making the base of the tunnel book which is the accordion fold. Then we moved on to looking at the layers that would fill the book.

Measuring the accordion fold.

 Working on the pages/frames of the tunnel books

There were several different methods of adding to the frames. This member has a single picture and is now carefully cutting out the pages in the front to resemble trees that you look through to see the picture.

Here, rubber stamps were used to make the scene

Some simply devised a scene from each page color.

We put the pages together with paperclips to see if we liked the composition

We glued each page from back to front from only one side.

Another view of inserting the pages.

  

Then we glued the remaining side from back to front and called it done.

And this is what we made

Lara's sample using Suminigashi

Lara's icy sample

We were all as happy as Michele H. is with this workshop.

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Artist's Books: "Chapter 9 - Local Heroes, Book Artists of Washington State" is the latest installation in the Sherry Grover Gallery upstairs at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. It features books by 69 Washington artists. Downstairs there is an exhibit of work by Catherine Alice Michaelis, titled "Imprinted & Unbound". Catherine is best known for her artist's books and printmaking projects. Both exhibits will be showing until February 5, 2017. This is a great opportunity to see two wonderful exhibits of book art. For more information about these exhibits and museum hours check the website for details: https://www.biartmuseum.org/.

Here is a small selection of some of the books in both exhibits.

Sam Garriott Antonacci

M J Linford

Karen Stahlecker

Leah Thorpe Tarleton

Karen Stahlecker

Jocelyn Curry

M J Linford

Deborah Greenwood

Kathryn Leonard

Catherine Alice Michaelis

Catherine Alice Michaelis

TUNNEL BOOK

The November Tunnel Book workshop will be taught by Lara Cox. Tunnel books are fun to make and offer endless possibilities for design. They can feature a variety of themes, from telling a story to simple images or very complex sculptural designs. They are constructed in such a way that when you look through them, it gives the effect of looking at a 3-D landscape. They can have just a few "pages" or several. Use your imagination!

TOOLS TO BRING:

• Cutting mat
• Craft knife such as X-acto (very important)
• Scissors
• Metal ruler
• Clear ruler
• Bone folder
• Pencil
• Glue stick and waste paper to glue on
• Double sided tape (optional)
• Paper cutter (optional but helpful)

MATERIALS TO BRING:

• One 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock cut in half lengthwise for the sides and front cover of the book
• Six 5" x 4 1/4" cardstock for back, front and center pages (recommended: a variety of colors or graduation of shades of one color)
• Any images you may wish to incorporate NOTE: If you wish to focus on particular images bring several copies of that same image and see what can result!

WHAT WILL BE PROVIDED:

• Instructions and examples to study. Your finished book will measure 5" x 4 1/4" tall and will have six pages including the back and front. The book will also have a front double sided cover (opening like double doors) with an optional slip band closure.

When:   Saturday, Nov. 12 at 12 noon
Where:  Eureka Methodist Church at Del Norte & F Streets 
Bring:   See above list
RSVP:   No
Cost:    None

SUMINAGASHI WORKSHOP PHOTOS - October, 2016

On October 7^th and 8^th, our NORBAG member from Portland, Jackie Wygant, gave a Suminagashi workshop. We had 11 members on Friday and 12 on Saturday.  Suminagashi  or "floating ink" is the process of marbling plain paper with water and ink to transform it into something vibrant and colorful. 

We started with simple rings being deposited with big round brushes. We progressed to multiple rings, blowing on rings to create distortion and finally overprints (on maps and previously marbled papers). We took a lot of paper home with us.

If you would like to try this ancient art form, you can get started with a couple large brushes, a cookie sheet with sides and Bo-Ku Undo dye set of six colors available at both Dick Blick and Amazon ($13-18). 

All of the tables were gathered around Jackie's workstation on the left. We had varying sizes of trays for the inks

Jackie loading her brushes

 

Closeup of making rings. The light parts between the grey circles actually have color.

Making multiple rings with four different colors

Manipulating the rings by blowing with a straw

Manipulating the rings by blowing gently from the side

 

Jackie gently lays the paper down starting from one corner

Here is the result from Jackie's technique of blowing from above

 And now our samples

These two are overprints. On the left, it is on a map and on the right is an overprint on another marbling page.