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 …
May 17
Once I got my colored rods, I went crazy with practicing making fish. These took me several hours to make.
