May 12
I’ve learned the that easiest book cover material is thin cotton adhered to a typing-weight paper back. So for these three books, (Remember book, Strive book and Lotus-skeleton book) I started out with three different calico-weight scraps of cloth and glued them onto misprinted pages. This piece of cloth is pink and red, and it …
May 06
This one had something weird happen with the glaze that makes it look diseased. It has thin bubbles that break when you touch them, leaving ridges that cut like obsidian. If it had been a functional piece, I would have had to get rid of it, but as garden art it works fine.
Apr 30
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
Apr 21
I started out with the gesso resist. I used a greenish wash in the background, with a Victorian bookplate design stamp providing the resist. Since I almost always stick to blue+orange as my color theme, I decided to vary it and go with a sage green+red iron oxide color theme. I did a wash of …
