Marbling on Fabrics is a one-day Sunday workshop at the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain, Boston with marbler Cristina Hajosy. Explore Turkish-style marbling on textiles such as ribbon, cotton, linen and silk. Combine beautiful swirls and mottling colors to create lovely, unique designs on pre-sewn scarves or on a fabric you can then use for clothing or other projects. October 29, 2017.
Read the rest of this post...Paper Marbling Workshop – Hajosy Arts studio – Saturday, October 14
A day experimenting with paper marbling. We’ll focus on Turkish-style marbling. This method, “Ebru”, can produce lovely figurative designs of fish, flowers, birds. and abstract shapes or go with the traditional combed patterns. Your floating designs may be free-form, combed, or even blown. Saturday, October 14, 2017 from 10am to 4pm with Cristina Hajosy at Hajosy Arts, Canton, Mass.
Read the rest of this post...Fuller Craft Museum workshop – Paper Marbling – Saturday, October 7, 2017
Come join Cristina at the Fuller Craft Museum for a day of Paper Marbling. Saturday, October 7, 2017 from 10am to 4:30pm.
Read the rest of this post...Paste Papers – Studio Workshop – Wednesday, August 30
Come join Cristina in her studio for this workshop – Paste Papers. Experience a full day of creativity while learning this popular art technique. Introduced in the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Paste Paper is a decorative paper technique that produces highly textured surface design. In our contemporary context, we can jump past it’s initial uses in bookbinding to more varied ideas like stationary, gift wrap, packaging, home decor, as well as unlimited fine art areas like collage, assemblage, and mixed media. Perfectly suited to a one-day workshop, this fast-paced, hands-on art experience will be fun, messy, and you’ll leave with a mountain of beautiful papers.
Read the rest of this post...Paper Marbling – The Eliot School – Fall 2017 Winter 2018
Paper Marbling workshops at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts in Jamaica Plain, Boston with Cristina Hajosy. Create beautiful swirls and mottling colors on paper with marbling. Learn “ebru”, the Turkish-style of marbling, on water thickened with carrageenan (Irish moss). Experiment with a range of materials, colors and papers to create lovely, unique designs.
Read the rest of this post...Artist’s Books Intensive – MassArt Continuing Ed – August 2017
This 2-day intensive will introduce more than a dozen different binds from historical to modern, from streamlined to sculptural. We’ll explore the connections between content and structure, outside vs. inside, and layers of meaning for interesting, engaging visual books. Additional book projects will include: Flag books, star books, lotus books, scrolls, and boxes.
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