Artist
Presented as part of:
Enjoy my solo show and other exhibitions in the Library!
Create your own books using fun folding and gluing techniques! Add your own writings, drawings, photographs, and more! Sketchbook, journal, album—what will YOUR book become? Each class will teach techniques for creating fun and fantastic books, and unleash your imagination!
With artist Debra Disman.
Join on your computer or tablet wherever you have internet. A Zoom link will be sent prior to camp start. Materials are included in tuition.
It was a gift to be able to work with students every day for five weeks this past summer, and introduce them to the book arts as well as other media. As a teaching artist, we often only see students once a week, so to be able to watch them learn and grow on a daily basis was a thrill!
Surrounded by scads of art supplies, tools and materials, 5-6 year old students in our “Fairy Tales” and “Make Your own Books” classes had an ideal situation for creating!
This outstandingly creative young student in “Make Your Own Books” certainly did just that, using her flag book to try out all kinds of drawing and painting media while exploring color, shape, line and texture.
Each flag page held a different combination of media, including acrylic and watercolor paints, pastels, crayons and markers.
Students created books large and small, including tiny ones that would fit in a (albeit rather large) matchbox!
Mixed media reigned supreme, such as combining letter stickers with markers and paint pens.
Oops! Markers on the project, not on your fingers!
Making and embellishing file folder portfolios was our first project. Some students created so many books they made a second portfolio to hold them!
A brilliantly bookish and imaginatively magical time was had by all!
Goodbye summer program, until next year!
enRICHment IV
Kindergartners have a blast making their own books in Santa Monica’s CREST Enrichment program which provides a variety of after school classes in Santa Monica Public Schools.
Which is more adorable, the book, or the dimple?!
What will happen with “The Three Kittens”?
The smile is the winner, and this little maker is a wonderful writer and visual artist too!
Peruse, cut, paste…
Draw draw draw…one of our most immediate visual art forms…make your Mark!
Industrious and serious writers.
What shall I choose?
Combining the visual and the written…
Kindergartners learning to write, and spell. Impressive.
They create the pages, they fill the pages.
Working with accordion fold / concertina books.
Influencing each others work?!
“Folded Fan Book”: accordion fold spine, with covers and pages attached.
Layering texture, shape and color.
Robert helps us out. Thank you, Robert of the CREST Enrichment program Staff!
An elaborate fairy tale…involving a path, a house, and fairies.
Working side by side, two creative solitudes in community.
This maker has a fascination and love of Mythology…and the Greek gods.
Checking out each others’ work. And each other.
The magic of Washi Tape!
One of our student’s Dads, a fun-loving dentist, joined us for this class…and made his own book
Students thrive in a supportive environment filled with materials, laughter, learning, and patient adults.
We were so fortunate during this class to have both CREST Enrichment program Staff Diana and Michelle be with us, as well as our dentist Dad, and a CREST staff trainee. The students really felt the support!
To. Be. Continued. It is the Story that never ends…Creative Expression.
Let’s keep starting the process young!