Sun West Art Club

Classes are nonrefundable.

In this class each student will be recycling and creatively modifying an old book it—giving it new life. The books will become a one-of-a-kind creative work and can be themed to each artist’s desire. Students will use a variety of media and collage and work on filling their book with new ideas and imagery.

The beginning of the class will include instruction on the best techniques on preparing your book for modification and students will work on creating a unique cover. Each weekly class we will learn a variety of new techniques to experiment with.

Each student should consider what the end use of their book will be. Will it be an art journal, a coffee table book, a gift for a friend, a scrapbook? Think about this as you determine if you want it to have a particular theme.

Required Supply list:

· Medium sized old book- Spine should be intact, stitched books are preferred as they are structurally stronger. Matte pages are preferred. (Not glossy pages). A book with lots of text is preferred to one that is only photos.

· Pencil, ruler & kneaded eraser

· Acrylic Paints & Liquid Acrylics. Transparent liquid acrylics if you have them.

· Watercolors

· Waterproof Ink fine liner pens (i.e. Copic Liner, Sakura Micron Fineliner)

· Transparent Gesso or Transparent Watercolor Ground

· Glue: Bring all: Matte Medium GEL, glue stick

· Scissors (recommend Cutter Bee) (Club has lots of regular scissors)

· Xacto knife & Cutting Mat

· Paint brushes for painting your subjects as well as for gluing/collage

· Old credit card for burnishing

· Collaging papers: Just bring what you have and appeals to you, like Gelli prints, painted papers, tissue papers, scrapbook papers, used tea bags or coffee filters, paper doilies, old book pages, sheet music or hymnal pages, maps, gift wrap, magazines, paper napkins, handwritten notes, etc. Instructor will supply a lot of collaging papers as well.

· Collaging images: This can be whatever themed images you like. Maybe flowers, birds, or even family photos. I will provide lots of imagery from books, etc, but bring any images that you desire to use in your work. I recommend The Cut Out and Collage Book series: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+cut+out+and+collage+book&i=stripbooks&crid=GIOLB9UGQPCK&sprefix=the+cut+out+and+collage+book%2Cstripbooks%2C144&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

· A few sheets of wax or parchment paper to protect in between pages.

· Ephemera/embellishments of any kind but should be mostly flat.

· Old art that you would like to add to the book

Supply List: Nice to have but not required:

· Bring any media you would like to use in your book

· Acrylic Markers: Posca, Arrtx, etc.

· Colored pencil

· Gel Pens, especially white

· Stabilo All pencils,

· Water soluble crayons, (Stabilo Woodies, Gelatos, etc.)

· Eyelets, w/punch and setting tool

· Taper runner, double stick tape

· Washi tape

· Rubber Stamps and ink- suggest StazOn black and/or archival ink pad

· Punches

· Washi Tape

Teacher/club will supply:
· Collaging papers

· Collaging papers with imagery

· Rubber Stamps

· Lace, ribbons, fabric, tule

· Tracing paper

· Watercolor paper

· Rubbing Alcohol and dropper for resist effects