Adventuring into Artists Books

Adventuring into Artists Books with Peta Lloyd, a fabulous class at Fibre Forum (Tafta Inc). What a great class, you can read more about Peta here . It was a very busy week with many techniques in both bookmaking and printing of papers for inclusion in the books. I decided to focus more on making books and less on producing pages and papers, instead using up some of the stash of leftover prints and papers from previous printmaking classes.

 Can you see the feather?  Flag book constructed using a multi layer print of a feather, the cover has the feather motif repeated.

Another book using up many of my bird and feather prints along with a range of found and collected images that were suitable the bird theme.

This book is a multi signature book with a wrap around cover. Not quite finished, I planned to have five signatures but still need to make another two.

Some of the pages included in the signatures.

Concertina Pamphlet book with stitched pages.

Turkish Map Fold book, using DL envelopes 

Star book

Portrait Gallery, a small book made as a variation of the Magic book and stamps.

Tunnel book - Yoga for Cats

Magic Book made from a folded and cut magazine page. This given out in class by Peta to get us started.

My first Magic book.

More covers

More concertina folds

One of the pages, Procion dyes, salt and plant leaves as a resist.

Rusted and printed pages

Transferring images from printed pages using orange oil, oil of Wintergreen or eucalyptus oil. 

Using packing tape to transfer an image.

There was plenty of this to keep our energy up.

The grounds and garden, perfect for a stroll

Matchbook Project, One of the exhibits in the Paper Makers exhibition