Sally MacCabe.

We were supposed to have a two day workshop with Sally MacCabe back in June which obviously did not go ahead.We were disappointed so she agreed to create a video workshop we could download and work at in our own time.She did a really good job considering she had never done anything like it before.There has been a lot of that in these last strange months.

 Below are the results we came up with.

This is Jenn's attempt.The inside pages of her concertina book,

some close-ups

          

and the outside.Jenn feels it is lacking in something and could probably be because she had no particular focus.It needs more work and lots more layers

Sally chose to work on a different page size using zigzag stitch to join them.

She used her own papers from old watercolours, which were washed under the tap and repurposed.

Then she added to the surface with more collage and stamps.

Viv, as is usually the way, had recently had a cull of her magazine stash and found  she only had a garden magazine to use for collaging.

However ,it turned out to her advantage as she has created a lovely concertina with a limited selection.

Kirsten started with a sheet of paper painted  in another workshop, see last photo.

She decided to colour this side in blues at the top shading to greens at the bottom with a sunset in mind.Finding it a little boring she repainted in dark tones of blue and blacks well as  turning  the page upside down. She found some magazine pages of boats at low tide that seemed to fit .

She found the pastel used to blend in the magazine didn't work well with the glossy paper so she added tones of acrylic paint instead.She quite likes the dark moody feeling  though is toying with working into the page with some pen and ink drawing and adding in white pencil work.

This is the other side which is waiting for some further work on another day.The results so far are as individual as the members of the group.

Deryll has chosen some lovely areas of texture to highlight her cover.

inside are some rich colours 

reminiscent of skies.

She prefers stitching to adding collage and has couched long lines of different threads to echo the colours used in her creation.

Here's Debby's concertina book with little window pop outs.She has used intuitive blue for the front pages.

on the other side she has used yellow ochre.on the page is a set of notes made from listening to a lecture on Ascemic writing.Mark making with gesture where the hand follows perception.If you look carefully you will see the writing,the word 'Follow' stands out .