I have 3 books on eBay ending tomorrow.
They are stil at super low prices.
I”ve been busy with work. I’ll hopefully post more tomorrow, though I’m learning how to wire a room tomorrow and Sunday. If I post again, you’ll know if it went well or not!
I dipped into my stash of Fabriano the other night, tore down a sheet into hedgehog sized sheets, folded them and got them ready. 1 sheet makes 1 hedgehog. Pretty sweet, considering I bought a fat stack of Fabriano Artistico quite some time ago and have used some of it for books but mostly its just sat there waiting. So it was nice to tear it down into pages. It made quite a sweet little hedgehog too. I also dipped intot he unknown watercolor paper and tore that down as well, pictures of that will follow in a bit. But I love the torn edges m the hand torn sheets.
It will be up on ebay here!
I put my book press up on eBay 6 days ago. It will end tomorrow around noon.
It’s a great little press. I used it recently to press my hedgehogs, and it worked wonderfully, giving just the right amount of pressure to perfectly press the covers to the block and kept everything flat.
I foresee that someone out there is going to get a press at a great price.
As a reminder here are a few pictures:
This is a journal that I made and used at the start of 2005. I recorded my thoughts for a few months in it. I used mainly Pitt Pens, Pigma Pens and watercolors as well as various and assorted emphemeria that I found along the way. IT’s colorful and documents some time of rage that I had as well as some very good times.
It has pages made from Strathmore watercolor paper 140lb, is stitched with irish linen and is made of dark chocolate brown sheep hide, super smooth ans soft with a unique pebble pattern. I love it.
Travel journal for my visits to my parents.
Go to YouTube see a larger version.
Also i started a group on YouTube for videos of sketchbooks and art journals me appropriately enough ArtJournal. You can sign up or view videos here.
I created a YouTube group called ArtJournals. I’m interested in other people’s videos of art journals.
You can see and join the group here:
ArtJournal Videos
I started a Google Group called Binding Books. Feel free to head over there and sign up the page s here:
I’m hoping to make it an active community and have a lot of discussion about book binding.
I started a Google Group called Binding Books. Feel free to head over there and sign up the page s here:
I’m hoping to make it an active community and have a lot of discussion about book binding.
So head over and sign up!
This is a small watercolor sketcbook I worked on in 2002 and 2003. THe pages are thick HMP made in Nepal. the book was made here as well. I had purchased the book with the intent of rebinding it into something I liked a little more, as I ripped it apart it became apparent that was going to happen, the binders had used some harsh stiff and non flexible glue that was not reversible. It made the whole thing a pain in the bum and I abandoned the project as fast as I started it. Needless to say i simply kept the book the way it was but added a sleeve in the back that allowed the end sheet to slide and allow the book to open. The paper in this thing is thick and stiff, very nice for water color or gouache.
I have again done the horrific thing with this journal and torn out pages. When I worked on this journal I really looked at the journal as a means to an end and not a finished product. Tearing out pages meant nothing, or not much. As such pulling a page out and selling it didn’t bother me at all. I sold many of the pages from this journal on eBay, they averaged about$50 for the 4x6inch pages. Not bad for me at the time as I was very poor and they funded my electric bill and my food bill.
Though I was dirt poor I loved that time I spent as an artist and making money off my art. It was seriously some of the best times of my life. I can only dream of devoting my life to art like I did those 2 summers.
Anyway onto the video, (see a larger version on YouTube.)