Watermedia & Ink for Book Structures (San Diego, CA)

This workshop will focus on two extraordinary, multiple-signature book structures. Work with the principles of watermedia surface design in the form of dropped-in watercolor techniques, acrylic ink line symbolism, color pencil drawings, and collage imagery to develop context in book structures. Focus will be on watermedia and color pencil drawings along with surface textures and pattern integration on Masa papers and vellum. The pages of the books will reflect the concept with additional collage elements and text symbolism. The first book will consist of an exposed stitch vellum and paper book structure, which is the perfect way to create, draw, stitch, blend color, ink, collage, and paint on two different but compatible surfaces. The combinations of color will harmonize with each other, shimmering through the translucent surfaces. The second multiple-signature, open-spine, end-band book will focus on Masa paper techniques with a pattern emphasis.

Location/Venue: ATHENAEUM ART CENTER
Original website page: https://tinyurl.com/y9229v3b
Cost/Fee: $230
Material/Studio fee: $20

Instructor: Helen Shafer Garcia is a San Diego Watercolor Society signature member, mixed media painter and award winning illustrator. Helen’s watercolor illustrations have graced the cover brochures, garden articles and advertisements of numerous international resorts and magazines for more than 25 years. Awards include four San Diego Press Club First Place Awards of Excellence in Illustration for San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine. Helen holds her degree in Fine Arts from CSLUB and currently teaches watermedia, book arts, and printmaking. And, intermittently, she teaches watercolor and Mixed Media workshops internationally and across the US.