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 …
Tag: hand bound book
Oct 22
Red Wolf Book
Most of the making of this book I chronicled in an earlier post. I finished it with the weed-stamp on the back, using acrylic paint mixed with gel retarder (plain acrylic paint doesn’t work here, as it is too dry.) The face on the front is a linoblock I cut of myself using a photograph …