The Wage Peace Book
One seriously satisfying mixed media book!
Paint. Print. Collage. Stitch. Tear. Layer. Bind.
And turn the whole beautiful pile into an artist book that is completely, unmistakably yours.
The Wage Peace Book is a start-to-finish mixed media collage workshop with Wendy Solganik.
If you don't need another enormous course right now...
If you don't want twelve months of curriculum...
If what you really want is one fantastic project to dig your teeth into...
Welcome. You found it.
THIS PROJECT STARTED WITH ME.
The Wage Peace Book wasn't originally created because I needed to teach something.
I made it for myself.
I wanted to play.
I wanted to make marks, create papers, cut things apart, put unexpected things together, and follow my curiosity without worrying too much about where any of it was going. And eventually, all of that making became a book. A weird, wonderful, layered, highly personal mixed media artist book.
I loved the project so much that it eventually became my project for the very first year of Fodder School.
And all these years later? It's still one of my favorites.
What exactly is a Wage Peace BOok?
It's part artist book.
Part collage playground.
Part home for the weird little things you make and can't bear to throw away.
And part permission slip to stop worrying about whether everything "goes together."
You'll create your own collection of mixed media textile fodder—painted fabrics, printed textiles, marks, textures, imagery and whatever else finds its way onto your table.
Then we'll start collaging. And layering.
And making marks. And cutting up. And reassembling.
Until eventually all those individual pieces and parts become something bigger:
your own handmade mixed media artist book.
There isn't one correct Wage Peace Book.
That's the whole point.
Okay. We're going to do some things to fabric.
Before I teach you how to construct the handmade mixed-media Wage Peace Book, you're going to make an entire collection of altered fabric fodder. And this is where things get REALLY fun.
Alter it, Stain it, Print it, Mess with it!
You'll explore different ways of taking ordinary fabrics and making them decidedly less ordinary.
You'll learn about:
• Choosing fabrics to work with
• Turning humble paint rags into glorious art materials
• Aging and staining fabric
• Using coffee and aging fluid
• Experimenting with synthetic dyes if you happen to have them
• Using alcohol inks on fabric
• Bleaching and removing color
• Adding layers of marks
• Combining different treatments on the same piece of fabric
And then there is...
And then we’re going to do some things with paper!
You'll explore making Mother Board and then layering it with paint and marks and stencils as ways to get pattern, imagery and deliciously imperfect marks onto your handmade book pages.
You'll play with:
• creating grunge
• collage
• stencils
• mark making
The goal is NOT to make a tidy collection of perfect book pages. Thank goodness.
The goal is to make an interesting pile of gloriously imperfect book pages that look like YOU made them.
Then we're going to use them.
Once you've created all that delicious fabric fodder and book page fodder, I’ll walk you through the process of turning it into a substantial handmade mixed-media artist book.
And when I say I’ll walk you through it... The book project ALONE contains 23 videos, along with extensive written and photographic instruction.
You're not getting a quick project demonstration. You're learning the process.
You'll explore:
• Handmade book construction
• Working with fabric as a bookmaking material
• Combining fabric, paper and mixed-media elements
• Building layered compositions
• Incorporating more collage fodder and imagery
• Adding words and text
• Creating individual pages while thinking about the book as a whole
• Working intuitively
• Making decisions as the book evolves
• Embracing irregularity and imperfection
• Turning a collection of handmade fodder into a finished artist book
And because this is me we're talking about, there is also some Thought Fodder tucked in there.
Because sometimes the stuff happening between your ears needs a little attention, too.
COME MAKE THE WAGE PEACE BOOK
A standalone mixed media collage workshop with Wendy Solganik
One project.
A whole lot of making.
And approximately seventeen opportunities to use the scraps you've been saving because obviously they were going to be perfect for something someday.
Someday has arrived.
GET INSTANT, “LIFETIME” ACCESS
One Time Payment ($117 USD +tax)
2-Part Payment Plan (2 x $63 USD +tax)
This Class is for you if:
You love mixed media and collage and want a substantial project to immerse yourself in.
You have piles of handmade papers and collage fodder waiting to become something.
You love artist books—or you've always wanted to make one.
You want guidance without being told exactly what your artwork should look like.
You tend to overthink your creative decisions and would really like to STOP DOING THAT.
You enjoy projects that evolve as you make them.
You want to strengthen your collage skills while actually making something.
Or maybe...you just want one really, really good art project.
That's reason enough.
COME MAKE THE WAGE PEACE BOOK
GET INSTANT, “LIFETIME” ACCESS
One Time Payment ($117 USD +tax)
2-Part Payment Plan (2 x $63 USD +tax)
Willa Workshops General FAQs
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There are no refunds on online courses
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You will have “Lifetime” Access to all classes unless otherwise mentioned—"Lifetime" is relevant to the lifespan of the Willa Workshops business (I don't plan on leaving anytime soon!) or the longevity of the technology.
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This class includes captions in English and multiple international languages. If you would like captions in a language not currently provided, please email evan@willawanders.com with your requested language and specific course.
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All Willa Workshops lesson content is prerecorded video. Once your purchase is complete, you will have instant access to the classroom, and are free to work through the content at your own pace
You can access Teachable and watch the lessons in your browser (PC, Mac, Android) or the Teachable app for iOS (recommended for iPhone and iPad)
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No, at least not available as local downloads to your device. The Teachable app for iOS may allow you to download lessons for offline playback.
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No. One student per registration. This is an honor system that if violated will result in your removal from the course with no refund.
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Please do! Always tag @willa.wanders and mention the course in your post description
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Yes! Please keep them for yourself, give them as a gift, or sell them.
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That's a hard no.
There's an endless amount of incredible art tutorial content in every Willa Workshops course. For some creatives, it's tempting to want to use these videos as a well of inspiration for their own creative enterprise, YouTube channel, brand, etc.
Willa Workshops Courses are not sold with permission for anyone to use it in this way--specifically, as a source of inspiration for any one's free how-to social media tutorial content, whether that be on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or any other social media platform.
If you are a creative who loves to share your work with the world, that's wonderful! I love it when participants share their finished projects in photos and videos on social media. Please tag me @willa.wanders, I'd love to support you!
But making how-to videos of yourself while creating from the lesson content or obviously inspired and derivative of Willa Workshops course content, and then posting those tutorials on any free social media platform, will get you banned from Willa Workshops with no refund issued.