dwell: the coffee table book
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5 PDF lessons/ 9 videos
Build
a
coffee table visual journal that measures up to 16” x 21”. The journal
cover is a painted board with a doorway cutout, which tips out to
expose a personal mantra. Through a series of creative jumpstarts you
will be guided to create calligraphic backgrounds, typography,
collage, distressed photos and painted papers. Document a recent travel
journey
or display a collection of personal memories.
DWELL workshop schedule
LESSON #1: journal board COVERS
Building the covers & spine ~ this lesson includes sketching the idea, cutting the journal design, prepping the GESSO surface, gluing & painting the spine.
LESSON #2: DISTRESSED photos collage
Learn about altering photos, creating distressed looks, photo collage and painting techniques for the journal covers.
LESSON #3: the PAINTED page
Explore a variety of painting jumpstarts for your journal pages.
LESSON #4: spilling & creative LAYERs{pages}
Creative ideas on creating graphic collage pages, journal prompts to help you start to fill the pages.
LESSON #5: BIND & stitch
Assembling the journal...putting it all together, creating signatures and sewing into spine.
general supply list:
• Favorite heavy bodied, fluid and/or ink acrylic colors
• Acrylic glazing medium
• 2- USPS priority mail flat rate boxes
• 5- manila folders
•
15-20 sheets of misc. papers up to 12” x18” this is a large journal,
so the larger the better (collect things you have in your house like
ledger paper, sheet music, drawing, watercolor, craft paper, maps,
large desktop calendars, magazines, newspapers, vellum Bristol,
wallpaper, rosin, construction)
• 5-10 sheets- 11”x17” Black
& white photocopies of images/writing/journal pages/- sharp
contrast images work best. TIP: enlarge symbols, letters, words on
photocopy machine
• paper towels
• freezer paper
• Roll of masking tape 2” wide or gaffer tape (any color)
• 2” flat brush (hardware store brushes)
• 1” flat paint brush
• 2- 1” foam brushes
• Trowel palette knife
• Plastic paint scrapper
• Cutting mat & Xacto Blade
• water containers
• Brayer
• Collage Pauge
• Tacky Glue
• Scissors
• Gesso
• Black chisel tip sharpie
• Painting smock
• 2 binder clips
• Bone folder
• Awl
• Paper needle
• waxed linen
• various beads and baubles
• Favorite unmounted stamps/stencils
• Doodling tools-prismacolor pencils, gel pens/markers
• Collage ephemera/paper scraps
• photographs
• sand paper
• sewing machine (optional)
