Workshops
Build new skills!
We provide a safe, judgement-free, fun, and collaborative environment where the emphasis is on the creative process, not an individual's perceived skill-level.
Perfect for team-building, special events or your own private studio lesson; completing a workshop or class with Lunar Horizons will leave you with:
Increased Self-esteem
Increased Self-confidence
Cognitive benefits
Paper-Making & Pulp-Painting
Transform natural fibers and plants from pulp to paper! If you're new to papermaking learn the basic techniques of Western-style hand papermaking, including pulp preparation, sheet forming, couching, pressing, and drying
Book Arts
Cover all the basics, including appropriate materials and tools, qualities of paper, and the different properties of various adhesives. A typical introduction course will include a variety of structures such as a pamphlet stitch, accordion, and a Japanese stab binding. Leave with several binding styles under your belt, and the knowledge of how to adapt these three structures to make your own.
Explore | Discover | Experience
Paper-making is a sustainable art process and transformative experience.
You literally turn plant fiber into pulp, pulp into paper, paper into unlimited art objects and craft.
1. Collection of plants
raw and processed gampi and flax
beating plant fiber into pulp
prepping plants
cooking greens in soda ash
sheet formation with mould & deckle
flower petals
"pulling" a sheet with mould & deckle
removing dried paper from interface
finished paper
couching paper onto interface
journals with very own paper
We use plant based pulp & recylced rag for paper-making
Discarded flowers from flower shop
flax pulp with flowers
Giving flower paper back to the florist
Flower Paper-making workshop at BluSeed
Pulling a "sheet" during paper-making workshop
dried flower paper ready for the nipping press
journals made from paper-making workshop
Montage: flowers-pulp-paper
It begins in the studio with your ideas...Cody & Elizabeth are ready to start!
pouring the pulp, made from colored rag
taking care to float the pulp just right
Cody using stencils & liquid pulp
Revealing the Nepalese Pulp-painting to Grandma
pulp painting
pulp painting
pulp painting
pulp painting
pulp painting
pulp painting