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Technique Book #1

Returning from this years’ AATA Conference in San Antonio thankful to have connected and reconnected with so many amazing art therapists.

It’s been busy and I didn’t mean to set the blog aside, but here’s some visual yummies to begin to make things up.

Last August (yep, 2013) I made a small accordion book. In this accordion style, I essentially pieces together several strips of paper into one continuous page that folds at repeating intervals. I gave the book purpose when I decided to use it as a place to document art techniques. These art techniques were small samplings of ones I would be using in my groups.

Today I completed the small book and am posting some of the images here with brief dialogue on some of the techniques. If there's interest I will consider separate posts later-on.

Book Cover: Layered tissue paper with pressed leaves.

Accordion style pages were 'seamed' with strips of tea bags.

On left: Tea bag sheets can be used to age/antique.  On right: I used clear tape to "pull" an image/words from a newspaper.

Water soluble crayons, washable markers & water

Tea stains & Bubble Prints

At top: Blue chalk pastel, water, and glue. On bottom right: using plastic sheet and acrylic for monoprint

Green monoprint using craft acrylics.

Glue & liquid watercolors mixed on a transparency then transferred - as seen at conference.

PS - For those who got glimpses of my July-Travel book while at conference stick around, I will be posting about that quite soon.
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