Featured IslandWood Artist - Raymond Papka
Altered Books with Raymond Papka
Another IslandWood At Escape featured artist, Raymond Papka, loves to repurpose materials. For his workshop at IslandWood, he is tapping into the unlimited potential of using books, embellishments and mixed media to create decorative artworks.
You will learn a number of ways to use books as art substrates, to alter books as pieces of art, and create one or more altered books. You will use a shadow box/frame to enhance the altered book which will tell a story- well, at least a new story!
Raymond will talk about selecting books, basic tools and equipment, support and substrate preparation, found object embellishment, various ways to attach found/created objects to the artwork, safe studio considerations and assemblage of your own concept and design.
Ray with just a few of his favorite things……..an assemblage artist stash!
If you love books, have a stash of “things” that you want to use in an assemblage, with a little wax thrown in, this is the workshop for you.
To learn more about IslandWood, go here. Four days on beautiful Bainbridge Island, WA with 12 amazing teachers.
Track One teachers include Carla Sonheim, Lendon Noe, Leslie West, Cori Dantini, Christina Romeo, and Tory Brokenshire.
Track Two teachers include: Bridget Guerzon-Mills, Pamela Caughey, Graceann Warn, Raymond Papka, Morgan Brig, and Shannon Weber,
