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Messing About with Paint

Posted on the 12 March 2013 by Elizabethwix

So we're home from foreign parts, and getting back in the swing of things. On Saturday and Sunday I had  terrific fun both teaching and taking a book-making workshop. (I was teaching the writing part.)
Messing About with Paint
I prepared some writing prompts, got out my trusty water colors and got ready to have fun.
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Ah, the joy of art supplies, and collage and painting pages!
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And mixing and gluing!
Messing About with Paint
So, we made eight pages and put them into a book. You can see the  cardboard spine by the water bottle (top left).
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Anyway, out of much creative chaos, overseen by Roxanne and Seth and me, there emerged......
Messing About with Paint
ten stunningly individual books. Jo is rather elegant and minimal.
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Another Jo's book was about family and her mother's recipes. What meal could possibly need green beans and orange juice at the same time? Hm..... 
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A very messy page from my work in progress. My first attempt at collage and rather horticultural. Anyway, a good time was had by all. (I think!)

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