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More Fun With Hair (and a Beard)
The brilliant audacity of this hair takes my breath away. It makes me smile.
Protected: In Context—Losing a Loved One
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Protected: Some Ideas Get Lodged in Your Head: Working in Series—and On Being Dangerous
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Where Does Inspiration Come From?
Above: Some pre-lunch sketching with a serendipitous quotation from "Rear Window." There is a tab between these two pages, created when the book was bound and I have digitally erased the tab where it covers part of the right hand page image and text. 8 x 8 inch hand bound book using a now defunct […]
Bookcoverings
Above: the Japanese bookcloth and decorative papers for the current batch of books, which will have Nideggen paper for pages.
I mentioned on Facebook that I was painting decorative paper and several friends asked for photos. Typically I don't post photos until everything is made up in book form, but I got to thinking people might enjoy seeing everything all cut up. I couldn't get high enough over the table to really include everything however: top left—it is difficult to see the gold and light green fabrics that will go with some magenta (yes magenta!) paper; top right— you can't see the lovely orange and cobalt blue mixes on the paper that will go with red and navy fabrics. This go around I actually made some decorative papers that went well with the smoky lavender bookcloth I bought by mistake months ago and haven't found a use for yet (four books will use this subtle color this round).