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Diana Trout 9-4:30 Saturday	1191 - Beautiful Paper Quilts	[back to quicklinks] $ 125 Plus $15 materials fee
Do you love paper? Do you find yourself lingering in the paper aisles of your favorite art supply store? This is a class that will open up new areas for experimentation and enrich all of your paper arts projects.  Spend the morning creating a lush array of personal decorative papers. You will create marbled papers in the Japanese manner using inks in a water bath. You will create patterns on plain or decorative papers using Japanese brush and ink techniques and experiment with floating washes and layers of inks to make colored papers with lovely gradations in color and value. You may bring stencils, inkpads. rubber stamps and collage items to further personalize your papers.  After lunch, you’ll create a paper quilt using your beautiful papers and stitching. Threads and fibers, found or drawn images, rubber stamps, photos, charms, beads and other small items can be attached to finish off your quilt. Supply List: --2 (at least) Japanese Brushes (Bamboo, size 4, bristle dia. 7/32” x length 1 1/16” is good on average) (3-5 brushes = less brush cleaning) --Assorted water based inks, including black (whatever you love and have on hand – the basic colors, metallics, walnut ink, etc.) --Metal Ruler --X-acto --Scissors --Awl --Glue stick --Plastic “floral” palette with 7 mixing wells --2 water containers (large plastic deli containers) --Rubber brayer Optional:  (you may want to have some – or all – of the following on hand) for additional mark-making --Pencils (colored and regular) --Crayons or Oil Pastels (metallic crayolas are fun) --Pens --Markers --Stamps and Stamp Pads --Stencils --Found Images --Small beads, buttons, embellishments, collage items (as desired) --Embroidery Threads --Needles (should be smaller than awl size) --I will bring one sewing machine; if you have a mini machine, feel free to bring it along. Materials fee includes: All papers:  Canson white; rice paper; assorted papers (patterned; decorative, found); pastel colored papers; 12"x12" cardstock and 12"x12" lightweight paper; fun foam or similar (used for piercing); all inks and medium for Japanese marbling technique

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