Jun 05
This is my favorite book, and I almost considered keeping it rather than giving it away. I wanted to do a cover that was almost entirely cloth, because I like the soft tactile feel of it. I collaged it using a sewing machine, as I did with the glass fish book (not posted, as I …
Jun 02
For this book cover I started by gessoing over cotton cloth. Then I impressed in the wet gesso with some stamps. There’s a crysanthemum, a cherry branch, and a geisha, as well as something that looks like a stylized five pointed blossom. When the gesso dried, I painted over it with greenish and gold metallic …
May 30
This book has endpapers that resemble shiny aubergine colored cloth. Its cover has a base of gessoed cotton. I wanted to use collage images, but I’m finicky about stealing work from others, so I used stuff I had lying around. The words are lines from my short story ‘Emily’s Fifth Birthday’ cut into strips and …
Mar 25
For the cover of this book I used some Chinese brocade, and the beading from my daughter’s shoe, which we got at Target. (I hope she’s learned that if you leave your shoes outside and they get ruined, mommy will cut them apart and use them for art.)Â After I cut and pasted the different …
Mar 25
I just finished two new books, and I’ve used up all the signatures I made so it’s time to sew some more. To make the cover of this book, I started with a piece of green and black calico. I collaged a painted layer of paper towel over that. You can see the holey-honeycomb texture …
