An interview with awesome book artist DJ Gaskin
Ro Bruhn’s handmade journals are incredibly beautiful inside and out. Touchable. Inviting. Desirable. This particular journal already is sold; but you can watch her develop new journals on he…
Handbound artists book, formed by tearing and worked onto with watercolour and enamel paint.
Materials: A Discarded Library Book (can usually be purchased for 50 cents or less) One library’s trash is another artist’s treasure… For this project every student will receive a…
Jennibellie Creates at the Jennibellie Studio
hello and happy Saturday to you! I meant to post this before I left on vacation but there was way too much to do and so, here it is, on a Saturday. :) This months Color Challenge with Crate Paper ~ the details of the challenge are posted on the blog. I knew I wanted to make a mini for the Fall season and even though this month is all about orange I was determined to create a color combination that wasn't expected. No orange for this month! This month's colors are Peacock Green ~ Mustard Yellow and Wheat ~ I think these colors are so complimentary to Autumn photos or Fall themed projects! I created this mini album using coaster sized chipboard, Hambly transparencies, lots of Crate Paper Chipboard accent pieces and Patterned Paper. It's called Autumn Plans - think December Daily except geared towards Fall - It measures only 4x4 inches, large enough for photos & journaling and yet small enough that it's completely manageable. I think I made this entire little book in one afternoon! I filled the album with a combination of photos, to-do lists, quotes, ATC's (from last year) and I plan on adding more photos as I take them. I still have lots of baking to do with the kids, our annual Autumn hike in Sedona, some arts & crafts time and the kids' Fall festival at school. busy-busy! What are your Autumn Plans this year? This month is going by entirely too fast but I am happy to say that I have the house and yard all decorated for Halloween. I just need to pick up one bag of every possible candy available at the grocery store and I think I'm all set! I'm off to finish up some laundry and then it's on to making a candy garland! Hope you're are having a lovely weekend!
Black Bowl, Maple Leaf by Tom Meyer. Click here . Looking at a simple leaf..... Looking at a single leaf .... Leaf by Ronald Chase. ...
Last year I took a wonderful book binding class at the International Printing Museum in Torrance. It was taught by Book Artist Lucia Frias Villarreal . She has a Masters degree in bookmaking, so I feel I learned from the best! She taught us Coptic binding which was developed in Egypt as early as the second century AD. Essentially it is a stitching method where you attach your pages "signatures" to your covers. I have collected several drink coasters from Chili's and thought they would make some great starter covers for my mini books. I had all of these wonderful Vintage images I collected to use for my Summer inspired projects, but didn't end up using all of them. So I printed out my favorites and started stitching away. Traditionally you would use a special waxed string. I ended up using bakers twine which I waxed myself using a tea light! I really loved how they came out. I used some vintage book pages from damaged books for my signatures. {coptic edges} {i love this vintage Barbie image} {inside the signatures you can see the bakers twine} {the pages are from old books, a toy collectors catalog and a family satire from the 70's} I am thinkin of offering this for a class at the Vintage. They are so fun to make, and a bit challenging! -Denise
Making my own art journal is really what got me started with the practice. Find out more and create yours with this free video tutorial!
my brand new limited edition art zine/pop-up book
As a child I loved pop-up books. A friend once sent me a pop-up postcard of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain featuring a thoughtful, solitary figure. It was a beautiful, inspiring card.
I've been here about two and a half months. It feels like much longer. But no, I'm still not "settled" or organized. Besides adjusting to the "cross-country-move/new job/roommate/roommate's cat" situation, I am also working on adjusting to glasses: Henry is not impressed. I've never worn glasses, besides a weak pair of reading glasses when working on metalsmithing or bookbinding. My left eye is weak, and has been for a while...astigmatism, which I can barely explain. It has been bugging me for a couple of years, (eye-strain, headaches, frowning.) I believe the right lens of my new glasses is crystal clear, and it's not a super strong prescription. Boring, Michelle. So anyway....glasses. Weird. It was quite chilly today, and it is most definately fall here in the mountains of North Carolina. Sweater weather. Socks and hat around the house. I had a piece at Asheville Bookworks' "Bookopolis" last weekend, and my piece was also juried into the "Capital Works" show by Eileen Wallace. There is an online catalog of the work juried into the Capital Works exhibition here. My photos are pretty weak. As a partial excuse, it was before I got my glasses... I really don't know how to take photos of books or objects. One night I experimented with a borrowed camera, borrowed tripod, in a pretty decent photo-taking room. Again, before I got the glasses. I don't love the dark background, but it is probably the best backdrop I have ever used... Anyway. I have been drawing a lot. Simplifying. Trying to think. Or maybe not think; just work. I don't quite know what I want to do right now, art-wise. And that's okay. 'Cause I'm working on it.
These techniques are so simple and beautiful, you will wonder why you never thought of them yourself. Learn 4 simple ways to make fluid art now.
Make a handmade book out of brown grocery bags. Use Fiskars art tools to make the process easier.
biblioteca16moreno.blogspot.com lasonrisadaliniana.blogspot.com mariacamilasalinascastillo7c.blogspot.com Comenzamos un nuevo curso y ya estamos en clase con el primero de nuestros proyectos. El objetivo: Diseñar y crear un libro de artista, de temática libre, en el que se utilicen como técnicas gráfico-plásticas: Grabado en linóleo. Un mínimo de cinco técnicas gráfico-plásticas con las que se puedan lograr texturas , incluidas las tramas. Para llegar a crear tu libro de artista te propongo un guión con las cosas que debes aprender, planificar y hacer. Si así lo consideras, puedes alterar el orden. 1.Crea tu portfolio personal. En él recogerás tus diferentes proyectos. Comienza por recoger todos los pasos que des en cada proyecto ilustrándolos con fotografías a modo de foto diario, poster, presentación, etc. 2. Busca más información sobre los libros de artista y realiza un esquema con algunos ejemplos según su clasificación. Puedes realizar un collage, con alguna aplicación online, en el que aparezcan todos los tipos, una pequeña aclaración de cada uno y , al menos, una fotografía que sirva de ejemplo de cada uno. Mira en páginas como: http://librosdeartista-historia.blogspot.com.es/ 3. Recordemos las técnicas gráfico-plásticas y cómo se utilizaban. En primer lugar, busca información sobre las diferentes técnicas secas, húmedas y mixtas; cuáles se usan en pintura, escultura...Te sugiero que te hagas un esquema. Puedes consultar: http://blog.educastur.es/luciaag/2008/11/30/investigamos-sobre-las-tecnicas-artisticas/ Una vez tengas la información, realiza un catálogo con, al menos, 20 de las técnicas, con las que puedas lograr diferentes texturas (incluidas tramas). El formato lo eliges tú. En él aparecerá un misma silueta hecha de 20 maneras diferentes, mezclando diferentes técnicas y materiales si hace falta. Intenta lograr diferentes texturas. Para no malgastar material puedes hacer varias técnicas en un mismo A3. Luego calca sobre las distintas zonas la silueta, recórtala y pégala en su lugar. En la parte de atrás realiza un pequeño esquema indicando los materiales y técnicas empleados en cada caso. 4. Haz bocetos de tu libro y realiza un prototipo con folios o material reciclado. Hay estupendos tutoriales en la red que te ayudarán. Al ser un prototipo será suficiente con que señales y realices de forma esquemática los detalles. 5. Para integrar la técnica del linóleo en tu libro primeros vamos a trabajas con ella haciendo prácticas. Para ello talla el o los motivos que necesites en tu placa de linóleo. Haz pruebas antes sobre papeles similares al soporte final para ver como se comportan las tintas. Si vas a alterar el papel sobre el que se estampa también tendrás que hacer pruebas. 6.Construye tu libro. Puedes buscar tutoriales en la red. 7. Utiliza las técnicas que has seleccionado y estampa. 8. ENTREGA: libro de artista y portfolio con su foto diario. Os adelanto algo de información. ¿Qué es un libro de artista? Es una publicación concebida y diseñada por el artista como obra de arte en sí mismo. En ellos se tienen en cuenta las características propias del libro como objeto, no como simple medio transmisor de ideas, textos e imágenes. Se aprobecha su bajo coste, su movilidad geográfica o longevidad del soporte. Son libros singulares, que no necesitan contar ni enseñar nada. En ellos prima la libertad, experimentación y creatividad. Es una obra interdisciplinar, un objeto híbrido surgido del llamado "arte total". En él se mezclan literatura (prosa y verso), artes plásticas e impresión tipográfica. Historia Es un objeto artístico surgido de las vanguardias históricas del s.XX, desde el Surrealismo de Bretón y Duchamp al Arte Conceptual, donde la idea-contenido prevalece sobre la forma. Surge en 1963, cuando Edward Suscha crea Twenty-six gasoline stations. Pero también encontramos los libros minimalistas de Sol Lewit, las obras conceptuales de artistas como James L. Byars, On Kawara; Hanne Darboven o las publicaciones Fluxus de George Maciunas o Ben Vautier. Técnicas Hechos a mano, en ellos se usan múltiples materiales, técnicas (pintar, grabar, recortar, imprimir...) y soportes (papel, metal, plásticos...). A veces, usan técnicas de los libros animados (con desplegables (pop-up)) aunque no lo sean. También pueden verse trabajos origámicos. Doc: Las técnicas grafico-plásticas en el proceso de creación bidimensional. (Lucía Alvarez) Biblioteca de recursos online: Espiral Cromática. Más información: Técnicas. Para hacer texturas: mcarmenepv.blogspot.com Tipos de libros Aunque puede resultar difícil establecer tipologías en un principio, se pueden distinguir los siguientes formatos. 1. Pele-mele/arlequinados/mix and mach pinterest.com/pin/335588609706672425/ Pulpa de papel. 2. Libro acordeón-arlequinado- leporello-concertina. Anatomía dúna Ombra. María Pujol artistbooks.ning.com El País. Brennel. aedeacreadores.com randscapes.blogspot.com.es 3. Libro carrusel. Kaho Kojimaabgloriamadrid.wordpress.com 4. Libro bandera/flag book. cherylcoon.com pinterest.com/pin/3870349654793604/ 5. Libro tunel. decogarden.com 6. Libro origami. pinterest.com/pin/116108496613764752/ 7. Otros: libros alterados. glimmeringprize.blogspot.com Para saber más: http://www.redlibrodeartista.org/ Qué es , concepto, historia, antecedentes: http://librosdeartista-historia.blogspot.com.es/ http://www.aedeacreadores.com/2013/03/libro-de-artista.html Red libros de artista http://librodeartista.ning.com/ Libros escultóricos http://www.lamainenchantee.com/des-sculptures-incroyables-realisees-a-base-de-livres/ Libros tunel y carrusel pinterest.com/thebookelf/carousels-and-theaters/ Para inspirarse https://collaglab.wordpress.com/page/3/ artistbooks.ning.com/ http://www.puntodepapel.es/ www.pinterest.com/claudialee/all-things-bookish/ pinterest.com/marciescudder/art-of-artist-books/ http://feriadelibrosdeartistas.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/libros-de-artistas-internacionales.html http://creaciondeunlibrodeartista.blogspot.com.es/ TUTORIALES http://www.heathershawdesign.com/beijing/decode02.html Libros alterados maribleduca.blogspot.com Técnicas de estampación from DMR87
Handmade artist books: a cross between a functional object and handmade art piece. Here are 12 examples of beautiful artist's books.
I am still trying out different ways of working in enamel using this concertina book form as a vehicle for my experiments. I have used my own photographs of early entomological collections making them into enamel transfers. Then I have sand blasted label shapes and beetles into the enamel surface. Rust will happen!!
inside panels. handmade book. made by me. 2007. using photos, ribbons, fabric, grommets, pins, book board, and more.
A friend of mine approached me during the "Booked" Show and asked if she could buy "My Unforgettable Book Library" artist book. Its funny about selling these labor intensive pieces. Initially they are just too precious to sell, but after I have moved on and created a new one, the pain of separation is much less. So this piece will be sitting on someone else's shelf from now on.
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Do you know about the folded thread "books" made by the Miao peoples of China? They are quite magical, and a search for images finds many, including these - using traditional patterns (via) from the collection of Sarah Foulks (via) (via) Here's a version made following the instructions set out by Ruth Smith, who researched these in China and wrote a book about the technique (and is teaching it) - and another, from another blog - The Chinese name for these books, I learned here, is zhen xian bao (needle thread pockets).
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Learn how to create a custom romantic art journal that you can fill with all of your favorite art journaling techniques.
If you’re new to making handmade books, please don’t spend a fortune! Here are my 10 tips for creating handmade books on a budget:
Handbound artist's book
Every few weeks or so I get an itch to make a handmade book, and this time my efforts are being fueled by something special: our new Bookbinding Collection.
