Paper Marbling Intensive
Move from classical European marbling’s foundational patterns to modern designs and metallic paints.
Details
- Day 1 focuses on the foundations. We'll walk you through handling paints in a water medium, creating the classical patterns that once adorned the endpapers of old books, and building harmonious color palettes using the color wheel.
- Day 2 builds on that base. You'll move into more modern patterns, work with metallic, gold, and pearl paints, and explore overmarbling where one pattern is superimposed upon another to create richer, more complex designs.
- You'll have your own tray, paints, rakes, combs, and paper throughout. Expect to leave with around 30 sheets of original marbled work.
- Bring an apron and lunch each day. There will be a 30-minute break daily.
- Wear comfortable shoes.
Materials
Instructor
Pietro is native to the northwestern Italian city of Turin where his father Gaetano founded and operated a commercial printing press. His youth spent in the press led him to paper marbling, restoration and bookbinding. Pietro in 1997 established "La Legatoria del Sole," an artisanal and production-oriented bookbindery in Turin. It served Turin’s Municipal Archives, public and university libraries. After coming to the U.S. he started teaching paper and fabric marbling at the "San Francisco Center for the Book" and at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Together with his wife Vanessa he has founded Accardi Book Arts: a book arts studio and bindery in Gardnerville to follow his passion of marbling fabric/paper and to preserve the tradition of handmade books and boxes.
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