A shoal of books

It’s been a couple of weeks of trying move several things further on.

The asemic writing books now have covers waiting for the text to be put in and the labels to be stuck on,

I’ve written the text for ‘Winter’, the next book in the NWBG series responding to woodland

and I’ve finished ‘Blake’s Book’ at last. It was an awful lot of printing and experimenting for an edition of four but I’m finally happy with it.

Busy Weekend

It has been a busy few days with progress on several projects.

On Friday I printed the plate for the asemic writing book.  It worked much better than I thought it would. Now all I have to do is come up with covers for it.

On Saturday I led a workshop at the NWBA meeting. We made blizzard books based on the new Hedi Kyle book. This is ‘the one I made earlier’ as an example.

And over the weekend I finished the “’Reflections’ book (although not in time for the meeting).

To cover the boards that make up the pages I was going to make gelli prints with semi transparent colours over the top of printouts of dictionary definitions. But I made a discovery. When I smoothed the print on top of the paint I realised that it had taken paint off where the paper surface touched the plate but had left the text behind. This successfully printed off onto another piece of paper. (I’ve since read about the process on the internet but I hadn’t heard about it before). So I decided to make gelli printed text instead.

 I mounted the prints onto equilateral triangles of mount board

 and added mirrors and used a wire edge binding technique to assemble the book structure.

I must admit I’m rather pleased with it.