BOOK TRADE
Bookbinding workshop
Camille Grin
Discovering the power of paper.
A white notebook bound by you will be composed of three parts reserved for specific uses: writing, drawing and collage of photographs.
Which paper for which use? What is a tab? What about head and tail hunting? By wearing the bookbinder’s apron, you will discover in a playful way that bookbinding is an art of anticipation and that beauty is above all useful.
See the craftsman’s file Bookbinding, restoration, creation.
Illumination workshop
Lise Parramon
On the theme of plants, here is an invitation to dive into the wonderful world of illumination, in direct contact with the tools and gestures of the Middle Ages. Several models realized with the line will be proposed to you. It is up to you to transfer the poncifix onto a blank page, to outline it with ink or bistre pencil, to gild the motif with gold or silver leaf, to compose the colors with egg tempera.
Latin calligraphy workshop
Lucile Gesta
On the theme of plants, here is an invitation to dive into the wonderful world of illumination, in direct contact with the tools and gestures of the Middle Ages. Several models realized with the line will be proposed to you. It is up to you to transfer the poncifix onto a blank page, to outline it with ink or bistre pencil, to gild the motif with gold or silver leaf, to compose the colors with egg tempera.
Marbled paper workshop
Sonia Lê Van
Laying colors on the surface of water, making them move and intermingle with the tip of a stylus, capturing the pattern on a sheet of paper, this is the art of clouds, the delicate art of marbling. We will create together patterns inspired by this traditional skill practiced in Turkey since the 15th century, but we will also let our imagination run free to create personal patterns, to take away.
Typography – printing workshop
Lionel Dollet
In the letterpress printing workshop, you will learn how to place, set and ink movable typefaces, in order to compose texts of your choice (personal creations or quotations). You will take home the fruit of your work, on a magnificent handmade paper from the Brousses mill.
Engraving workshop
Arne Aullas d’Avignon
Did you say print? This is an invitation behind the scenes of a workshop, around the museum’s intaglio press. After the presentation of the tools, you will discover the different ways of engraving (intaglio, in relief), you will choose the support (metal, cardboard, wood, lino), you will pass to the wetting of the paper, to the inking. You will make a matrix and its printing, a black version, a color version.
Caricature workshop
Laurent Malard
Starting with a fable of La Fontaine illustrated at various times, we will compare the drawings in order to extract the imaginative substance of their creators. After this debate and a study of the various appropriate techniques, each trainee will be able to express himself, according to his interpretation and sensitivity, with a personal graphic realization. You will leave with your work and your portrait caricatured by the artist animator.
Comic strip workshop
Nathalie Louveau
Between bubbles (blop!), close-ups, temporal ellipses (in 2094) and onomatopoeia (Paf! Grrrrr!!), the idea is to tell a story in pictures. A choice of scenarios will be proposed to you, and we will go to meet your characters and the imagined landscapes. You will create a comic strip, choose your technique, line art or color, with felt pens, paper cuts, pencils… It will be presented in a leporello*.
Illustration workshop
Laulec
What if we illustrated a story? After a brief presentation of this profession, you will imagine your heroes, your story, you will weave the fabric. A few sketches, and the adventure can begin. Following the course of the text, through the drawing, you will set the scene, invent the scenery, create the characters, compose a page, then another, and, at the end of this joyful work, you will leave with an illustrated leporello*.
* Leporello: accordion book
Linocut workshop
Geneviève Gourvil
Linocutting is a technique of engraving known as savings cut, inspired by woodcutting, which consists in removing, with the help of gouges, all the parts of the linoleum or soft gum plate that one does not wish to print. The ink applied with a roller is then placed on the remaining parts, in relief. The paper is then pressed onto the plate, using a spoon, a baren or a press. You will discover all the steps: from the drawing (no level in drawing is required), to the printing. You will leave with your engraved plate, as well as your monochrome print on paper.