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Create macramé jewelry

The basics for creating hand lettering typographic images are taught: sketching classic print fonts, trying out calligraphic pen strokes, working with brush pens/brush markers. Afterwards, small personal letterworks and greeting cards can be developed from this combination.

This course introduces drawing through simple exercises and experimental techniques, training the eye, encouraging the realization of your own visual ideas, and providing access to artistic work. The goal is to discover and develop your personal drawing style. In good weather, we will draw outdoors in the neighborhood.

The oldest manual printing technique is relief printing or stamp printing. The appeal lies in the reduction. Simple yet very expressive prints are created. You work out the essence of your motif and transfer the motif to the printing plate. Then, with patience and spit, you carve. To protect your hands, workboards are available. We collect motif ideas together and, depending on the carving exercise and strength, you can work with linoleum or Softcut. You can experiment with different papers and printing inks.

For the creation of pop-up cards or fold-cut cards, a variation of origami (ori = folding, kami = paper) is used, which allows for cutting the paper. With kirigami (kiri = cutting), simple to complex three-dimensional fold-cut cards can be made through vertical cutting and horizontal folding. They reveal spatial depth and create straightforward architectures or pop-up mechanisms. In this course, we will work our way from simple pop-ups to more complicated models. Photos, glossy images, postcards, or other interesting motifs brought along can be incorporated into our own designs.