In this workshop you will have the dual pleasure of binding your own sketchbook and then using it!

Making a book for yourself is a pleasure all its own. You will make two sketch books with different bindings, using different papers and in different sizes available for you to work in immediately.

Sketching is distinctly different from drawing. It is quick, decisive and involves more observation and less attention to perfecting a line. We will explore ways to record a concise visual experience using pencil, pen, markers and watercolors. It is about memory, and a brief recording of that memory as much as it is about observation. As such, you will learn how to distill what you see into a few marks, colors and shapes.

Please bring a bag lunch; coffee, tea, sparkling water and snacks are included. Also note that there is an additional $15 fee for supplies.

Abbie Read works in collage, book arts, and mixed media sculpture, which usually incorporates old and discarded books as well as found objects. She has taught art in high school and college; she now teaches workshops relating to Book Arts in the mid-coast Maine area. She lives and works in Appleton, in her studio on Appleton Ridge.

Sandy Weisman is both poet and visual artist. Her poetry has been included in two anthologies and several other journals, including Salamander, Spillway, Barrow Street, The Maine Review, Off the Coast, and Muddy River Poetry Review. Sandy’s art work has been exhibited locally at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland, Michael Good Gallery in Rockport, Granite Gallery in Tenant’s Harbor, Waterfall Arts in Belfast, and many other locations in the Boston area.   She is a member of the Midcoast Maine Book Arts group.  Her artist books include Ontogeny, Book of Hours and Blue.