Book Repairing Course

Yesterday I spent the whole day in the building shown above. I booked a two day book repairing course at the Haus der Kulturinstitute. It is impressive walking into an entrance hall filled with lots of statues. The building also accommodates the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke München (Replica of classic statues).
I enjoyed the course a lot and learned a few methods how to repair damaged books. The 8 hours we worked in the book bindery just flew by. Below you can see a repaired paperback with a new cover and 3 repaired books which will receive a hardcover next week.

Next Sunday we also have the chance to learn how to bind our own books. If I have the time I will make my own sketchbook. I wish the course would have been a bit longer than only 2 days. Maybe daily? :)

Today I went to a special book binding store Carta Pura (what a wonderful store!) to get some book binding material. I bought a bookbinding set and some wonderful sheets of paper. I even met another member of the course in the store. I can tell you, I didn´t really save money and I could have spent even more money and time in there.

Art course - Acrylics

Last weekend I attended my first art course. Unfortunately I could join the other participants only on the second day (Sunday).
The course had the intention to show us different techniques of using arylics. I have never drawn or painted with "wet" colors, so this was new to me. Boy, I really do have a lot to learn yet. The day went by fast and we all had a lot of fun.

In one of the excercises we had to choose a basic form and draw it on 3 pieces of paper. Then we had to use the primary colors (red, green, yellow) to paint the paper using differnet techniques.



Techniques from left to right:

with a sponge :


with a spatula:

This one was the most annoying to do, but the one I like the most.

with a roller:


It was strange to spend a day without drawing a new picture, just doing excercises. But I enjoyed it a lot.