Trees

 Although I have walked past these trees in my local neighborhood many times, I've never photographed the beautiful bark before. The colours are stunning when seen in close up without the distraction of the whole tree.

                                                           An Australian Paper Bark tree.

                                                                  A species of Eucalyptus.

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                                                                      Another Eucalyptus.

                                                         This is probably a Spotted Gum.

                                                     And a non native tree, a Cyprus I think.

A Few More Pages.

                                     

                                           Here are a few more pages from my insect book.

Finished!

 After many months and lots of various forms of art work, I have declared the Insect Book finished, although there are still some pages that I am less than happy with.

Here is the front and back cover before binding, using some of my hand dyed fabric and computer printed images

Each signature has a double page spread in the middle, so here they all are, again before binding into the book. Each page throughout the whole book has a gelatin plate print as a background with various hand carved stamps and small screen prints added to the different plant prints.

           On some pages I have added the insect names, but in these middle pages I mostly haven't.

Trial and Error!

Each signature will have a slightly smaller page between the 2 heavier weight pages, with tiny screen prints of various insects on top of a gelatine printed background and with quotations related to insects scattered throughout. However, this one was a disaster, the last step was to add a screen print of some Kangaroo grass on one side, and it smudged! There was no way to clean it up sufficiently to use, so it was back to square one to make a substitute page.

This is the inside of the  extra page with gnats, flies, ants and grasshopper prints, plus some quotations.

                                                       The flip side is vegetation gelatine prints

               So I started from scratch and made 3 as near as possible copies of the messed up page.

They weren't all as good as I hoped of course, but there is one thank goodness that will be usable as a substitute for the messy one. Pheeeeew!