Book arts an new love

                          






My first attempt at book making! I loved the little knot on the outside.

                      






This was the second attempt just a bigger version and the knot on the inside

 I was learning to put the decorative paper on the book board, I actually really like doing it!

 Corners get a little tricky at times but still good.

                                                                                                A close up of the corner.

 My Japanese Stab books. Bindings from Left to right Tortoise shell, Hemp Leaf, Noble and the four hole.

                                                                     The cloth spin.
                                                                       

Close up.

                                                                       Accordion book.

                                                          




          



                                                            Front of my Long stitch book

                                                                        The spine

                                                  



The paste down and concertina/ Flysheet

                                                               Spine of my Coptic book

                                                             Close up of the spine stitches.
The cover of the Coptic book! I think this is my favorite so far or maybe the long stitch although I had a hard time tightening that one up!

The inside/ Paste down

                               Lays Flat how cool is that!!!!

Atmospheric Glazing

Sorry the last one is sideways... This was my attempt at atmospheric glazing.

Comlimentary colors

This assignment we had to use only two complimentary colors. I loved this assignment!!! It was hard sometimes because there were other colors I wanted to use yellow etc but I think it was amazing to realize you can do great things with just two colors!!!

Darks

Here are some color studies....

A few more...

I was seeing what the two studies would look like painted. The left ones I just put the paint on there and the right ones I wetted the paper first to see what effects it would have an how it would look.

I used rubber cement on the all the parts that are white and then painted the sky...

And here is the final piece with all the darks painted in. I actually painted the main branches and blew the smaller ones and the grass as well.

Leaving Whites

So there she is :) I actually really like this one. My teacher pointed out some flaws but I think I'll just ignore them. This painting teaches me you just never know with watercolor paint, the skin is actually cobalt blue, quinacridone rose, and gamboge. I'm kind of considering doing another one like this but the background being black and the dress and hat being white... not sure yet we'll see.

The Wolf

Beginning, middle, end. This is one of my favorites... I used an exacto knife to get some texture on the fur, didn't like it so much but ah well (a good learning experience). As for the background I put rock salt to get the fun "snow" texture.

Sorry it's been a while but here is some more!!!

The top picture is the finished... not my favorite but it is what it is.  The bottom was the wash I started with.