I’ve been meaning to post the sequence of book covers, because what they look like changes enormously from the beginning to the end.Â
First I started with three 8 1/2″ x 11″ copies of a short story of mine, which I’d converted to some funky font and printed on a laser printer. I could just have easily used plain paper, but I’m operating under the principle that more texture and more randomness is better.
Next I took some calico, because thin cotton over thin paper is the easiest material to work with, when binding books. I cut them into scraps and strips, and used acrylic medium to paste them down. Must wait overnight before doing anything else at this point, because the acrylic is quite gloppy.
