Nov 10
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 …
Jun 10
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, …
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 …
Nov 03
This is one of the books whose cover creation I chronicled in an earlier post. I started with scraps of cloth glued down on paper (a sheet from a manuscript) and layered washes of color over it in acrylic. For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and …
Apr 30
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
