Portland Art and Soul Workshops

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Sas Colby 9-4 Saturday	940 - Book as Power Object	[back to quicklinks] $ 130 Plus $5 materials fee
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In this class we will work with small found books, infusing them with power and magic, encasing them so they contain our secrets and wishes. Think of your most powerful wishes and hopes. We will symbolically embed these feelings in books, treating them as ritual objects. Methods for altering, sealing, wrapping, distressing and aging will be demonstrated. The finished book object will be sealed shut. Sas will bring some of her work to show as samples. Supply List: --A selection of 3 or more found books. small prayer books found in thrift shops, no larger than 3” x 4”, or some small books that have personal meaning to you that you’d like to transform. --Small pieces of fabric (to enclose your book). ribbon, string, nice papers. --Everything should be meaningful to you. You should work only with material that you are close to, nothing but the BEST stuff. --Findings, such as buttons, charms or small found objects. Again, this must all have personal meaning to you or it won’t be an authentic fetish. --Personal photographs, collage material. --Glue stick, Elmer’s, PVA, Sobo – whatever you like as an adhesive. --Small jar of gesso and brush. --Small jar of heavy gel --Needles, thread. --Scissors and utility knife – the usual art kit --Paints & brushes if you want to paint your book. --Pencil, pen, markers Materials fee includes:  Shellac, brushes, denatured alcohol, miscellaneous fabrics, papers, etc.

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