Workshops
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Suminagashi, Ink Floating on Water
Explore the magical ancient Japanese art of Suminagashi: ink floating on water. We will learn techniques both modern and traditional to transfer these elemental forms to paper. These unique papers may be used to make monotypes, books, cards, collage, and are art in themselves.
Date: Monday, December 14: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Virtual Event
Price: $30 AMH Members, $45 NonMembers
Age: Teens & Adults
Materials Needed: (* denotes items you may have at home or studio)
Dick Blick BokuUndo Innovative marbling kit #01309-1009
carrageenan (optional) #04821-1005
2 -Plastic palette water cup #03068-1012
Amazon or Dick Blick
Paint tray palette (can use tops of-lactic containers*)
Disposable Aluminum Steam Table Pan to fit 9 X 12” paper (must be larger due to sloping sides)
OR any plastic pan. A scrap book case 11” x 12 is good also because it has a top.
2 or 4 Chinese brushes, small, OR watercolor brushes size 4 – 6*
1 or 2 pads Yasutomo Hosho Paper Pad 9″ x 12 “ (48 sheets per pad)
OR 1 Lowe Cornell Oriental Rice Paper Pad P-906 (48 sheets per pad)
various papers to try, drawing, mixed media, watercolor, handmade*
Mohawk Superfine can be found at Talasonline.com, and much more
Photo Flo OR drop of dishwashing liquid*
Materials on hand:
2 shish-ka-bab sticks
Protection for your table and a smock, cloth, sponge or paper towel
racks, strings and clothespins to hang wet papers
dishwashing liquid, 1 or 2 drops
Optional, for thickened water, ¼ # or ½ # carrageenan power, to be mixed night before in blender w/water
For people avoiding Amazon, I get materials from colophonbookarts.com and Talasonline.com
About the Teaching Artist:
Christina DiMarco is a teaching artist in the Hudson Valley for over 30 years. She studied sociology and psychology at Trinity College, Burlington Vermont and SUNY New Paltz. Christina co-founded and studied at a small art school in Beekman, NY, Clove Creek Artists, for nine years in the 80’s and early 90’s with her partner, water photographer and woodworker John Fuchs. They share a love of hiking the many surrounding mountains, photographing and studying nature and living in the woods for 38 years. Christina teaches the elemental arts of Turkish marbling and suminagashi, bookbinding, and many media. She shares her teaching with people of all ages, at Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Camp Herrlich, Patterson, NY; the Wappingers School System; Mount Saint Mary College, at the Desmond Enrichment Campus and more, including area libraries. She taught at Mill Street Loft (now known as The Art Effect), in Poughkeepsie, for 25 years.
Japanese Bookbinding Workshop
We will create one or two books using a traditional Japanese technique of bookbinding. The second book will build on knowledge of the 1st book. Other options will be explored and demonstrated, building on the pamphlet stitch. Bookbinding is a versatile and accessible art through which we can create books to fit our needs for Journals, for creative writing and poetry, drawing, collage, collections, photographs and keepsakes.
Date: Tuesday, December 15: 9:00 am – 12:00pm
Location: Virtual Event
Price: $30 AMH Members, $45 NonMembers
Age: Teens to Adults
Materials Needed:
This course will be conducted via Zoom, so participants need access to a device with video and audio.
MATERIALS FOR JAPANESE BOOKBINDING
MATERIALS FOR 1 OR 2 BOOKS
Can be purchased at Dick Blick on line, Catskill Art Supplies, Kingston;
Colophon Book Arts, Inc. or art stores
Decorative paper for covers 4 pieces 8-1/2” x 11” or 9” x 12” – 2 per book
Watercolor papers, handmade, Canson Mi-Teintes, Strathmore,
drawings papers 80# or more
Papers for text or inside pages 8 or 12 same size as above, for each book
Drawing paper, @#60; copy paper (recycled is excellent)
Miscellaneous paper, copy paper
Strip of paper 9” x 12” x 1 “
Bookbinding awl,
Bookbinding thread – a color contrasting or complementary to decorative papers, etc.
Or embroidery thread
Bone folder – optional – for folding papers
MATERIALS TO FIND AT HOME
Scissors, pencil, ruler
Embroidery thread
Embroidery needle, blunt preferred
Old magazine to piece the pages
Glue stick – optional
Envelope, small – optional
Piece of wax or old candle
About the Teaching Artist:
Christina DiMarco is a teaching artist in the Hudson Valley for over 30 years. She studied sociology and psychology at Trinity College, Burlington Vermont and SUNY New Paltz. Christina co-founded and studied at a small art school in Beekman, NY, Clove Creek Artists, for nine years in the 80’s and early 90’s with her partner, water photographer and woodworker John Fuchs. They share a love of hiking the many surrounding mountains, photographing and studying nature and living in the woods for 38 years. Christina teaches the elemental arts of Turkish marbling and suminagashi, bookbinding, and many media. She shares her teaching with people of all ages, at Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Camp Herrlich, Patterson, NY; the Wappingers School System; Mount Saint Mary College, at the Desmond Enrichment Campus and more, including area libraries. She taught at The Art Effect (previously known as Mill Street Loft), Poughkeepsie, for 25 years.