Nov 03
This is one of the books whose cover creation I chronicled in an earlier post. I started with scraps of cloth glued down on paper (a sheet from a manuscript) and layered washes of color over it in acrylic. For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and …
Oct 22
Most of the making of this book I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished it with the weed-stamp on the back, using acrylic paint mixed with gel retarder (plain acrylic paint doesn’t work here, as it is too dry.) The face on the front is a linoblock I cut of myself using a photograph …
Oct 06
This is one of the books whose cover-creation process I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished up the green washes with blue acrylic printing, using commercially purchased rubber stamps. It feels a lot like cheating to use someone else’s art, but the commecrially produced rubber stamps are so convenient for so many techniques. Once …
Jul 28
This is how I attach the covers. It’s not the final step, but anything bulky that gets glued (rather than sewn, for example) to the outside goes on after this. Top left: I cut a strip of matboard to protect the spine and, after figuring out which part of the cover I’m going to use, I …
Jul 23
I decided that the green cover would look good if there were blue stamps over it. I have a large collection of commercial rubber stamps that are so varied (and copyright free) that I sometimes use them despite my aversion to using others’ art in my collage. Of course, once I’d inked up the glass (with …
