This book is hand-bound, like my others, approx 3 1/2 inches by 4 1/4 inches tall, and about 1/2 inch thick. I took a picture of the cover before I attached it to the book blank, to show what the image looked like in full. I started with a piece of beige cotton, then layered photocopies …
October 2008 archive
Oct 08
King of Pentacles
I had planned to do a whole series of these tiles, based on the tarot. I love tarot symbolism and imagery. I spent a lot of time pounding out the clay into flat slabs, cutting it to size, and then (hardest of all) trailing stained slip freehand from a bottle. I tried to fire them …
Oct 06
Swallow collage
Here’s another collage in the series I did. When I decided that the first one needed help, I set about cutting linoblocks. I’ve cut three so far, all of birds, and I have three others that need to be cut. No problem collaging on the slightly rough gessoed surface, so that’s good. I’ve gotten more …
Oct 01
Spodumene Flowerpot 2
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