Jul 19
I had some time tonight, so I painted on washes of acrylic over the book covers. This brightens them up and makes them look more cohesive. Still have very little idea as to what the final pieces will look like. I have a vague idea to make epoxy stickers for them, but haven’t tried yet. …
Jun 22
I want, above all, to have a kind of chaos to my pieces, the abstraction of something that hasn’t been created by human hands. This, of course, is impossible. Layer two, I rolled out some block printing ink and used some old linoblocks I cut to print on the background. Block printing works better on …
Jun 11
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 …
Jun 08
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 …
May 25
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, …
