25 January, 2011
Altering recycled paper
Since I've been busting US economy too frequently lately I made decision to spend at least less money on paper. Well, paper is essential in my art so I had to look for the alternative. Recycled paper appeared to be good idea. Adding texture and painting the large pieces of paper is a messy and time consuming job but I'm happy with the results.




22 January, 2011
13 January, 2011
Bookbinding
Bookbinding is itching me for a long time and finally I got the time to try different ways of binding.
Most of the time I spent practicing Coptic stitch (just because I kept messing up - lesson learned: don't try to watch tennis at the same time). For the cover pages I used different materials and techniques:
1. Soldering
2. Etching
3. Painting:
Some books are bigger... ...some smaller...
Raven's Foot Binding
...but this is my favourite:
03 January, 2011
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