Another Litle Book.

 Having made many, many gelatine prints over the last few years it's been a wonderful discovery to know that I can incorporate some of them into hand made books. There is a limit to how many can be framed and hung on a wall or offered for sale at exhibitions, so this new outlet for creativity has been so rewarding. This latest book using my prints is a variation on a Winged Book as described by Alisa Golden in her publication 'Making Handmade Books'.

              It's a little book telling the life history of a butterfly with suitable quotes throughout.

                           All the folds shown open out with more images and quotes to be seen.

                                                I've had so much fun making this little book!

Another New Project.

 Although I haven't taken photos of the rest of the book shown in the previous post, it is in fact finished!However,

I have been busy since then on other projects, one of which is a collection of postcard sized prints for an exhibition. Here is one of them, butterfly prints using the leaves of a Ginkgo tree growning in my back garden. A lot of the leaves look very like the wings of butterflies to me, so I chose some of the smaller ones and used them to print images on my gelatin plate. The background is a texture plate of open weave fabric that I made several years ago.

Continuing Project.

Here are all 4 of the centre and side page spreads for the new book. Each long strip will be folded in half and the smaller side panels attached at each end. Unfortunately the light shining on the metallic paint has once again made the prints difficult to see, and I have also added a little bit more to a couple of the images since I took the photo.

A Couple More.

I am more or less thinking of energy being broadcast from these spheres, so I am cutting rubber stamps with patterns that I can use to depict 'energy',  repeated marks such as the ones above.

New Project for 2024.

Responding to notification for an exhibition of artists books later in the year, I have been exploring some ideas for a new book. My previous entries have been books featuring insects in general and beetles in particular. Below are some preliminary prints on a completely different, and for me, unusual topic.  The book is going to be an 'expanding accordion' book, which features a little bit of sewing of spines, and I think it will make an effective display of the prints, both sides of which will be seen. 

I'm using a lot of metallic paint on the gel plate, making it very hard to photograph, perhaps scanning is the way to go.