Book Covers Step 1

I’ve been meaning to post the sequence of book covers, because what they look like changes enormously from the beginning to the end.  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 …

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Reminder Book

This book started, once again, with light cotton cloth adhered to an old photocopy. The photocopy was of a dictionary page with the word “swift” on it–used for another project—but you can’t see it very well now.  To let the image show through, I cut out twin silhouettes of flying swallows before adhering it to …

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Smiley Ball 4

Some of these I left unglazed.  I did this partly because I was running out of time to glaze, and partly because I thought I might paint some with iron-paint.  I didn’t paint them with iron paint, but I did put the unglazed ones in the damp part of the garden, hoping that they might …

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Strive Book

With this book I started once again with calico pasted to typing paper. The page was a sheet from an old manuscript, but the text is not visible.  I tried to do a second print from the tree monoprint, but it didn’t  take very well.  I used an onion bag to put some texture on, …

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Nightmares in Pleasant Dreams

This is a sign I made for the reading at Wiscon that some fellow writers and I are going to do.  I started with an old piece of matboard that I’d painted with several layers of acrylic.  I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was …

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