Jun 07
When I made these three books, I meant to have a theme of off-white covers. This one started as gesso brushed over off white muslin, with stamps impressed into it for texture. You can see the faint image of a bird in the lower right hand corner of the cover. After the gesso dried, I …
Jun 05
This would have, should have been my favorite book cover. I started by stamping gesso designs onto muslin, and then using a wash of buff paint to bring out the details. Since the background was so plain, I went to my old files and found a photograph I had taken last year of my yard …
Feb 21
For this book cover, I started with orange printed calico over paper, and again did Rorschach-like blobs of black gesso on it. I wanted to try a photo transfer onto colored paper, so I chose a blue square with brown seedpods printed on it. The transfer worked fairlywell, and I glued it to the orange …
Feb 18
For the cloth of this book, I used thin, rainbow tie-dyed cotton. I added black gesso just as I did to the other two books in this series. Again I wanted to experiment with photo transfers, so I transferred the images of a poritco (front cover) and gate (back cover) using acrylic medium. I love …
Feb 15
I began this book by putting black gesso on to some printed calico in what I hoped were random patches. Once that was done, a book on photo transfers inspired me to attempt to transfer a photo. I found a photo of a landscape, and transferred it onto the cloth using a thin layer of …
