Workshop led by Pravina Phillips - Artful Journals and Journal Covers. Either 12th October or 20th October.

Artful Journals and Jurnal Covers - A creative workshop.

TUTOR: Pravina Phillips

DATES: Two dates available. Sunday 12th October or Monday 20th October 2025.

LOCATION: from out of the blue studio galley, 18 Halse Place, Ōpunakē.

TIME: 9.30 to 2.30 . Shared Lunch. Tea and Coffee supplied.

PRICE: : $50 per person

Outline:

Pravina is a master of creating book form art works. She is very focused in her practice on using cheap or free materials that are in everyone’s daily world to create these forms. In this exploratory workshop you will be guided in transforming playing cards, teabags, grocery packaging, tissue paper etc into unusual shaped books. You will be given enough guidance that you will be set to explore a world of new material possibilities. Great for those of us who are budget conscious or are focusing on stash busting.

During the workshop you will create small tactile journals using a variety of techniques and materials. We will be making fabric hexagon shaped books, books from grocery packaging, teabag journals, playing card journals, tissue paper journals, brown paper journals – anything goes!

You will be concentrating mainly on the covers, leaving your pages to assemble at home. You can focus on just one technique or try your hand at all of them. We will also discuss ways to use your journals, themed journals, creating the pages and binding the journals.
This class is a chance to play and experiment. As the requirements for this class focus on recycling materials, there is no need to buy anything. I will have spare materials for you to use as well.

Needs List

Fabric – bring along whatever you have – can be old cotton clothing (but not anything too heavy) Embroidery thread
Needle
Paper – (photocopy weight 80gsm (can be paper destined for the recycle bin) or heavy book text paper to make hexagon shapes) There is no need to buy the hexagon shapes as we will be making our own depending on the size required). If you have special paper you would like to use for the “pages” of the book, please bring along.

Pencil
Compass (if you have one)
Scissors paper and fabric
Grocery packaging – e.g. teabag box, anything which can be used as the cover for a small book Washi tape (only if you have some, don’t buy any)
PVA glue
Paintbrushes (any small brushes)
Acrylic paint (I will have some available)
Old credit card or similar
Old playing cards (or if you have the movie cards from the Supermarket promotion a while ago, they work very well). I have spares
Water container
Old plastic lids (for paint and glue)
Tissue wrapping paper
Brown paper
Serviette with a picture (optional)
Ruler
Cutting Board (optional)
Rotary Cutter (optional)
Quilters Ruler (optional)

Tea and Coffee will be provided. Please bring a shared lunch.