This was another one of the rainbow series books, so-called because of the rainbow look of the tie-dyed/marble technique fabric I used for the base. After the layers of masking tape and washes, I had blocks of color, which I added stamps to. This one has silver rub-and-buff as accents. I wanted to try some …
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Nov 08
Rainbow Coin Book
This was one of the series of books I made with the tie-dyed/marbling technique cloth as a base. You can see the faint impression of some of the collage background papers, for example, the joss paper. After I had the rainbow tie-dyed/marbled cloth with the colored paper back, I laid strips of masking tape over …
Nov 06
Bronze Book
This was actually a book cover that I had started this spring, but had to leave unfinished on the shelf because I ran out of book blanks. Once I made more book blanks, I got it out to finish up. I started with a printed calico, which I washed over with violet and black. You …
Nov 04
Black Cat Book
This was one of a series of books I made recently. I started by taking some ironed sheets of thin cotton cloth. I used a marbled paper technique wherein dye is laid on top of a bed of shaving cream, only instead of using food coloring or alcohol based inks, I used some leftover fabric …
Jun 10
Heron Book
This was the third cover of the “off white” themed series. For some reason, this one didn’t turn out as the rest, to fix it, I cut out shapes of wings from different papers and adhered them randomly to the surface using a semi-translucent mixture of acrylic medium and Titan Buff paint. After it dried, …