CUT AND PASTE, LOOK AND PAINT

Recently landed: Cut and paste, look and paint

An absolute joy to conduct two back-to-back workshops, for level 5, in the morning, and levels 4–6, in the afternoon, once more as part of the NGV Creativity Club.

Together, we made a pamphlet stitch wraparound zine/book, with a stapled variation for the younger bookbinders and zinesters, and it was wonderful to see how everyone handled the technique of aligning their corners and later composing scenes and dreams across the pages. Some created safe havens for stick insects, another, a murder mystery as a pictograph, others, forests of trees for bees and lorikeets, a journal for a panda, and a tale of a piece of toast.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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12th of October, 2026

With heads boughed as they worked on their publications, the workshops felt like something the two of would have loved at that age, and we wondered what we would have drawn in the hidden inside chamber of the wraparound cover design.