Category: book arts
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Stenciling gesso onto bookboard makes both a nice raised design and a resist. My work area in Albie’s class. The bookboards above have been trimmed down and painted, and will be bound with a coptic or French stitch using the papers drying in the rear of the photos. A very wee book – I like…
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I need to take more photos, but as usual, I became entranced with what I was doing. I kept going until I absolutely could not do it anymore. Today I have to remind myself to SIT DOWN. My hands are not too bad, but my feet and back were letting me know it last night.…
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Latest progress on the Sunrise Tapestry. I could see doing a series of these from the photos I took of this one particular sunrise. But I’ll need to order or dye more purple silk. A commission that I just finished. It is a gift for a historian. I’ll write a coffee pot post tomorrow morning.
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I signed up to join Elements Gallery, and so did Susanne. I feel very good about it. The price is certainly right and all that remains is that they get enough artists committed to sign the lease by today and that I get juried in. So, hooray! Maybe this is that opportunity that I have…
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I finally finished my Journalfest journal yesterday while waiting at the doctor’s office. I’m posting some of the pages here in case you think that art journaling is hard or requires special talent or something like that. An art journal is just for you, and it contains a combination of art and writing, or maybe…
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Journalfest was, as expected, another awesome experience. I flew to Seattle and took a shuttle bus over to Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington. The town itself is beautiful and if I did nothing but walk its beaches and explore its shops and restaurants for a week, I’m sure that I would have…
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I thought I’d share photos of my last two books with you before I go. I’ll be offline until Monday. I’m sure that I’ll have lots of photos when I get back, but somehow I doubt that I can top the photos I took of that sunrise last year. This book began with a discarded…
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This week went by so fast! My departure date for Journalfest in Port Townsend, Washington is less than one week away. The anticipation is overwhelming! I will be stitching and painting and drawing and cutting for three solid days with three awesome teachers. I made a huge amount of paper with the palmetto/cotton pulp Susanne…
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This has been a pretty good week. Susanne made lots of pulp for me in her beater, so I have made three batches of paper this week. I used so many ingredients in these that it is a little complicated to describe. From left to right: 1. Abaca (a type of banana fiber), okra, daylily,…
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I made this small book this week with the techniques that I’ve learned from artists LK Ludwig and Albie Smith. It is filled with my handmade iris and abaca paper, which I made with the assistance and mentoring of artist Susanne Martin. If the weather does not turn to thunderstorms, I will be at the…
slowly she turned 