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- Our first-ever group of young poets and book artists.
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- watching a demo…
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- Sandra uses an icer scraper to create texture in her paste paper.
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- Carlos happily pasting away!
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- Emi’s paste paper already is looking like a full-on painting.
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- Emi’s finished paste paper is too beautiful to cut up!
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- detail…
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- Mathis is finding good collage material.
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- Jazz’s finished book, poetry included.
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- Jazz’s bookcover has wonderfully colored paste paper.
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- Elena is working away…
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- What gorgeous, subtle paste paper!
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- What a poet! What an artist! Yay Chevi!
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- Elena shows us the inside of her accordion book.
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- Emi not only makes the coolest paste paper, he also chooses exotic multicolored twine to wrap his book with.
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- Emi’s beautifully illustrated book.
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- Sandra’s magnificent paste paper cover- made with an ice scraper, who knew?!
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- Sandra sharing her colorful completed book.
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- Maxence’s book is a great juxtaposition of words and images.
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- Carlos used watercolor paintings inside his book.
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- I think Carlos loves paste paper as much as I do!
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- 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!
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