Workshops

Pastepaper primer

3 hours, all materials included: $60

Like fingerpainting with a purpose, this is messy, colorful fun for all ages. Make 8 or more sheets and use them to make original and traditional covers for books, boxes and portfolios as well as decorative papers for cards, gift wrap, tags, scrapbooking and other personal projects. Depending on humidity and thickness of paste, papers may require extra drying time and can be picked up later.

No prerequisite.
Ages 9 to adult.
Wear comfortable shoes and work clothes.

Details

• Showcase of pastepaper samples
• Handouts of recipes, sources for tools and materials
• Discussion of uses and care of pastepapers
• Mixing colors
• Demonstrations of techniques with sponges, brushes, rollers, combs, stamps, etc.
• Hands-on experimentation
• Cleaning up

 

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Here is a gallery of samples produced at Lead Graffiti or in our workshops using colored wheat paste and items such as plastic combs, drinking cups, finger tips, and rubber stamps.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Above shows a stack of unbound covers Lead Graffiti produced for the 26 deluxe versions of a book entitled Allen Ginsberg—If Not Forever: A Letter to Jack Kerouac published by Sore Dove Press / San Francisco in 2008 and printed by Bottle of Smoke Press / Dover, DE.