this 4-week course takes place
Friday, October 23, 30, november 6, & 13
from 10am - 12pm
This is a hands on class where students will learn how to work with a gel plate and acrylic paints to monoprint on paper as well as learn basic bookbinding skills. You will print book covers and create three books - single pamphlet and double pamphlet stitch books, and a hard cover accordion book. Students will leave with three completed projects.
Week 1 - Get acquainted with Monoprinting on a Gel Plate
Week 2 - Monoprinting Papers to Use as Book Covers
Week 3 - Bookbinding: Preparing Covers & Creating a Single Pamphlet Book
Week 4 - Bookbinding: Double Pamphlet Book and Accordion Book
All Supplies Included - $35 supply fee included in registration price
All experience levels welcome!
Minimum Age: 14
Location: STAA Art House at 320 N. Columbia Street in Downtown Covington
Meet Rachel
Rachel Crawford is a native of New Orleans that journeyed to the “country” and landed in the charming town of Covington, Louisiana, with her hubby of 30 years marriage.
She studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts where she discovered her love of color and gouache. Passionate about color, Rachel now teaches color theory & design classes in her home studio and at her local art association. Bookbinding is her second passion and Rachel loves to teach others how to create books by hand.
Rachel works in gouache, watercolor, acrylic, color pencil, paper collage and mixed media. Her art is bright, happy and energetic and encompasses colorful geometrics, expressive abstracts and paper-cut collages. Nature, primitive arts and mid-century design are her inspirations.
Her award winning art and hand-bound books have been shown and sold in galleries, group exhibitions and art festivals around the Gulf Coast Region and beyond. And Rachel’s bookbinding skills and work have been featured on HGTV.
In Rachel’s words, “I love teaching, because it’s planting creative seeds into others so they can discover, blossom and flourish in their God given creativity which will make the world a more beautiful place.”
When she is not drawing in her sketchbook, she feeds her creativity by crocheting, reading, writing poetry and exploring the great outdoors.