Paper Crafts: Maker's Guide

Forgot to mention...

I am so honoured  to be part of this great book. I put together a project that responds to a handmade book in the V & A's collection....

University of the Creative Arts, Farnham UCA

It was great to be invited back to the Illustration Department at the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham yesterday.
I ran a workshop for the BA Illustration students
...'Fold'...
A book structure making session that combined their ideas with technical refinement, measurement and making skills. You could have heard 'a pin drop' they were concentrating so hard....great students!!

We covered the flag book, sewn in the fold book, and then the fold with pocket structure.... kept them very busy and engaged..

'Pressed'

I self publish a magazine for handmade papermakers,

users of handmade paper and for those

who are interested in the medium for

their arts practice.

Each edition has handmade papers 'tipped' in and cover different aspects the medium....

Each is printed and hand sew by me and is available .... just email me at mandybrannan@yahoo.com and I can send it to you  - cost £8 plus £2 pp in the UK - add £2 for those from across the seas....

This is my last workshop of the year - 'Fusion Papermaking' at Helen Armstrong Bland's amazing facility in Saxmonham......

Here are some images from the last workshop!

Always back to the grids....

Variations on a theme.....

Bookbinding: 

using a similar image for differing book formats

University of the Creative Arts, Farnham

These were some of the handmade papers made by the MA and BA Illustration students

... no plain white sheets....

... lots of experimentation....

University of the Creative Arts, Farnham

Take a particular fold technique ..... do it well and adapt it to become useful for individual ideas...... MA and BA student workshop.

Next workshops are in October!

'Pressed'

I am being asked if it's possible to buy a copy of I my self published. 'Pressed'

'A small magazine to further the practice of making paper by hand – be it for fun, joy, and research or for personal arts practice.' 

(They all have 'tipped-in' pieces of handmade papers)

The main article in the magazines are...the following.

Edition 1: What is it about this medium that attracts artists and creative practitioners?

Edition 2: Amate Bark Paper: Past, Present and its use in current arts practice.

Edition 3: Papermaking for Book Artists

If you would like to purchase any of these contact me at mandybrannan@yahoo.com and we can do a transaction for £8.00 per edition on PayPal    

Responding to the colours, hydrangeas, manhole covers and architecture of Kyoto...

Parallax Art Fair

It's been a couple of weeks of framing and now all's done.....
http://www.parallaxaf.co/
This is a new venture for me in this, my home country! My work was accepted for the Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea...excited and stressed.
Oh well... I used to exhibit framed work when I lived in Minnesota - did it then - can do it now! The only difference is that in Minnesota I was paid a stipend....here in London I pay for the privilege - that's just the way it is for us artists today.

Handmade paper, chine colle, pencil, collage, collagraph.

Japan

My daughter took me to Japan in June. 

Eight days of walking and cycling around Kyoto. "what a joy!"

Everyone says....Go to Japan in spring time to see the cherry trees bloom!

I say - go in June and see the hydrangeas bloom.

Amazing....really makes me want to make more paper.

Finally

Well...it's been a while but the Victoria & Albert Museum publication, that I have had the pleasure to be involved with, will soon be for sale.
I received the flyers today......

Newness

At last ... it took a while

The new edition of 'Pressed', a magazine for handmade papermakers, users of handmade paper and for those interested in using the medium for their arts practice.

For this edition I have chosen to share the work of several book artists who have chosen to make handmade paper an integral element in their book arts practice. Each artists uses a different aspect or technique: showing that this diverse mediums’ processes allow for infinite experimentation with different fibres, colouration techniques, inclusions and fibre manipulations, which in-turn, enable a combination of context with materiality in their work.

I also write about my current papermaking research and describe a five day 

workshop for papermaking book artists.
Also.....it includes four types of handmade paper samples tipped in!

Victoria & Albert Museum

Really pleased to be part of this project.

 http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/paper-crafts-a-makers-guide-softcover

It will be available in October...

Bananas continued...

 

Here are the sheets that resulted from my experiments withe the banana skins...

.......and of course!!!! I couldn't help my self....had to add text, hydrangeas and pine needles!

I am going to use these images for the next edition of Pressed.

February...it's bananas

Yep....had these drying in the kitchen for about 18 months.....time to get some papers made with them (thankfully they do not any obnoxious odours while drying!)

http://mandybrannan.co.uk/handmade-paper/