MUST . . . make . . . sock animals. NOW!

The menagerie keeps growing.

Capra the Goat, by Jessie S.; Spot the Dog, Tush the Pig (Fatush’s little brother), Ellie the Phant, Boris the Dog, and Zippy the Zebra, all by me.

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Kid’s Poetry and Book Arts Camp ROCKS!!!

Our first-ever group of young poets and book artists.

watching a demo…

Sandra uses an icer scraper to create texture in her paste paper.

Carlos happily pasting away!

Emi’s paste paper already is looking like a full-on painting.

Emi’s finished paste paper is too beautiful to cut up!

detail…

Mathis is finding good collage material.

Jazz’s finished book, poetry included.

Jazz’s bookcover has wonderfully colored paste paper.

Elena is working away…

What gorgeous, subtle paste paper!

What a poet! What an artist! Yay Chevi!

Elena shows us the inside of her accordion book.

Emi not only makes the coolest paste paper, he also chooses exotic multicolored twine to wrap his book with.

Emi’s beautifully illustrated book.

Sandra’s magnificent paste paper cover- made with an ice scraper, who knew?!

Sandra sharing her colorful completed book.

Maxence’s book is a great juxtaposition of words and images.

Carlos used watercolor paintings inside his book.

I think Carlos loves paste paper as much as I do!

Mathis and Maxence cooling off with fruit popsicles.

What can I say? It was fantastic! After a fun week of teaching a book arts workshop at the Mendocino Art Center,  I rushed home to set up the Art Barn for the grand opening and the Kid’s Poetry & Book Arts Camp. The kids really enjoyed their free-form writing and we made some fantastic messes while creating paste paper and wonderful poetry books. After four days, they each had three finished accordion books, one with a completed, illustrated poem. Thank you Crystal and Susan for being there to help, we couldn’t have done it without you!