A Book Today

Love the wave pattern paper... it's kind of like 'surfer paper'

Bugs and beach ladies

Dorothea portrait and the Avignon carousel

Water and bugs

Top view

Here's another book I made using a Maya Road album binder book... the book tape works like a charm. I love using the right materials, there's a satisfaction in having something function properly! :) (I guess this only comes from doing it wrong in the past.) I'm still working on some new prints and am looking for more books to work with. I might re-use a children's board book using some gesso,paints and prints.

I have put a book in my Etsy shop with a mod floral cover in earth tones... check it out! www.teaandinkstudio.etsy.com

A New Book

Here is the new book I made yesterday... it was so much fun rooting through old prints in the studio and cutting them up. I tried to use a lot of "margin paper" with the intent of writing in the book... writing around the images, in them, adding more drawings... or anything else, it's all up for grabs at this point. (actual book from Maya Road, Landscape Binder Album) I used book cloth for the spine and it worked like a dream. No more taught binding.

I started some new woodcuts based on the beach and ocean & will put them in books. These are more abstract than previous work.... much more about shapes, pattern and layering. It's very exciting to be trying some new approaches.... experimenting. I love not knowing what it will look like or quite how it will evolve.

Soon, I will try to make an actual BOOK but need to find a style that is simple and easy... (one that uses binder's tape or glue, not sewing). For now, using ready made books offers instant gratification and skipping a step. (Confession: I'm terrible at measuring which makes for a bad book-maker!)