This or that?
In tomorrow evening's art journaling class I'll be demonstrating how to bind a simple Japanese stab journal. This one took me forever so I'll need to find some ways to streamline it to fit the demo and the project in a two-hour class session. I gave this journal wide ribbon closures and bound the hinged spine with ribbon as well.
While the book turned out well, I seem to be more taken with the simple accordion sketchbook that we made last week. I'm still adding drawings faithfully and, even though I made those pages smaller than the pages in the stab book, there's a sense of roominess because the hinges aren't so bothersome. Still and all, the students will now a have a choice between the two. If I were a real teacher I'd be teaching the coptic stitch next week, but no, that isn't going to happen. No apologies, I'm not a real teacher!
I made a book a few days ago by stitching all the pages together then glueing onto some board for front and back for a sketchbook, its a bit higgledy piggledy but then that is everything I ever do. I was inspired to make this book by reading your posts so thankyou, I may have a go at making an accordian book and i love the book you have done. Good luck with the chickens and eggs
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I think you are a 'real' teacher and an inspiration too... so thank you for sharing... I'd love to see a tutorial or how to... on this journal... it looks very interesting.
ReplyDeleteNot a real teacher because you don't teach everything? Not! A real teacher awakens the appetite for learning in a student so they want to gain more knowledge. It seems to me you are giving the group enough to go on with room to grow - just what a REAL teacher should do!
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