Category: Art

Art, Artist Books, Bookarts

The Remembrancer: A Tragedy in One Act

Shelly

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The Remembrancer: A Tragedy in One Act
5 1/8 x 4 3/8 inches
8 signatures of 2 sheets (32 pages)
brown paper grocery bags Coptic bound with hemp twine

This one is kind of small, both in dimensions and length. It’s also nearly square, which will probably make me cry before I finish it. Too bad I got gesso on the binding, because it actually turned out pretty well. It’s nice and even, without being too tight. That’s not so easy to accomplish with rough hemp, because the twin itself is knobbly, with thick and thin bits. I’ll try to clean up the gesso splotches and get decent close-ups of the stitching tomorrow. Or maybe I’ll decide it doesn’t matter.

Journals, Photography

Journals and Altered Books

Shelly

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Mead Composition Book

This particular notebook is filled with collage work. The spine became stressed, and is now square, because too much material was added without removing sufficient pages to compensate.

Learn from my mistakes, people!

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These are a few of my journals and altered books. I finally figured out how I want to finish a painting I’ve had stashed away for years, so I dug out a sketchbook, to make notes. Otherwise, I’ll forget. While I was at it, I thought I’d take a few photos of the most recent strata of journals, sketchbooks, etc.

Altered Books, Art, Collage

The Terrible Hours: Title Page & Table of Contents

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: Title Page
The Terrible Hours: Title Page
collage (altered Polaroid, anatomical illustration, and yearbook photos)
9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches

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collage (anatomical illustration, map, child’s dress pattern, and fragment from old book) with Neocolors II and pencil
9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches

I’m not going to do anything to the cover. I sort of like the idea of altered books sitting on the shelf, looking “normal” on the outside.

Now, what next? I’m going to have to find a new project.

Altered Books, Art, Collage

The Terrible Hours: FINISHED!

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: The Man in the Moon
The Terrible Hours: The Man in the Moon
collage (text book illustrations, pennies, and maps)
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

That’s Mercury, actually, but it’s close enough to moon-like to work, I think.

The Terrible Hours: Epilogue
The Terrible Hours: Epilogue
collage (text book illustrations, map, library catalog card, buttons, and sand paper) with ink\
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

These are the final two spreads from the book. I still have to do the table of contents, but other than that, it’s finished. There are sixteen two-page spreads plus one single page. It took took exactly 20 days, which is pretty darned quick for me.