... of the white variety.
Hats and Shoes
A fiddly, but enjoyable, few hours proofing linocuts for two new books.
Accidentally Easter-y
Cutting out ovals for the embossed covers of new books. A seasonally appropriate activity.
Hot off the press
Just received delivery of a stash of flat printed sheets to be made up into new books. Ten White Beasts and Ten White Blooms. Thanks to printed.com again for doing an excellent job!
Ten orange cracker books
Flocked and finished - hurray!
Cracker books are go
Final stages of the edition of ten cracker books… all the components are ready for assembly - just need to start sticking.
Inspiration
The pinboard in my studio… bit of a mixed bag.
Working it out
Initial pencil crayon sketches to work out colour overlays for a new illustrated book - Ten White Blooms (final part of the trilogy to accompany Beasts and Birds).
Petal Prints
6-page concertina book of digital prints of rubber stamped flowers on 250gsm gesso paper. Hand stamped patterned endpapers, fluorescent pink board covers with a floral die-stamped title band.
Available to buy now in the shop...
Production line
Lots of cutting and sticking to make an edition of a new book – Petal Prints.
Photos of the finished book to follow tomorrow…
Collage tree
Using rubber stamp off-cuts
Rubber plants
Stamped snowflake
Words about books
'Turn Over Darling' – Ron King, Circle Press
'Turn Over Darling' – Ron King, Circle Press
'Aplphabeta Concertina' – Ron King, Circle Press
A Made Up True Story' – Sam Winston, Circle Press
A Made Up True Story' – Sam Winston, Circle Press
A fascinating weekend spent at a conference at Cardiff University – ‘Livres d’Artistes – the artist’s book in theory and practice’. Marking the donation of a large collection of artists’ book by Ron King from the Circle Press, it was a real treat to see and handle some of these books. Particular favourites of mine were books of beautiful embossed wire prints and alphabet pop-ups. So inspiring also to hear from Ron King about the development of the Circle Press and his various collaborations which have led to such a rich and varied output. Other highlights of the weekend included a talk by Imi Maufe about translating her travels into book form, Jay Young talking about his work with pop-up books, and an amazing talk by Sam Winston about his approach to working with books and words. Lots to think about, but most of all it just makes me want to make more books… which can only be a good thing!
One white beast
Working on a companion book to ‘Ten White Birds’… ‘Ten White Beasts’.
Stamping sampling
Interesting to see the different results from using the same tiled stamps as a base, and then ‘accessorising’ with other hand-cut rubber stamps.
Lots of lovely books
Carol Wood
Cathey Webb
Olga Fear
Katherine Stevens
A real pleasure to attend an exhibition of student’s work from the Hand Printed Artists’ Books course at Spike Print Studio. Having taught some sessions on lino printing on this course back in the Spring, it was a great to see those concertina books finished, but also the dizzying array of other handmade books on display. So many different formats and styles of working - and all completed since January. Really impressive stuff. The books will be on display in the Tom Trusky exhibition cases at UWE (Bower Ashton campus library) from 7 December to 31 January.