Your Ideas, Your Art, Your Book

Your Ideas, Your Art, Your Book

Thursdays May 22, 29, and June 5

1:00-4:00 PM

$160

Instructor: Ellen Winkler 

In-Studio Class

In this class we will be exploring artist book designs and ideas to create an accordion style artist book using monotype printings, words and stamping techniques included in a finished book. 

The class will broken up into three sections.

The first day will focus on learning to create monotypes using Caran d’Ache artists' crayons. This monotype technique is easy to learn and allows students to use their existing images and visual themes or to create spontaneously using words and other forms of inspiration. The focus of the first session will be creation of the monotypes and words and using the art and words as forms of inspiration.

The second session will focus on trimming and pairing the art and words with a focus on layout and word placement and how placement can affect the overall design and meaning of the book.

The final session focuses on assembly of the final accordion book and binding the pieces together to complete the project.

NOTE: 

We set our pricing to pay our instructors a fair wage and cover materials, but one of FBAC’s goals is to give access to the experience of all things bookbinding and printing to anyone who is interested. If you or someone you know would like to participate in a class but do not have the funding please reach out to contact@frederickbookarts.org and we will do what we can so no one has to miss out on the experiences we offer.