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jaeleslie at 04:32pm on 29/04/2004
jaeleslie at 04:32pm on 29/04/2004Papers are moving across my various worktables with glacial speed. After just a bit more gluing I am very nearly done with last year's studio journal, and ready to sew it together. So today I did something I have been contemplating and looking forward to for quite some time.
A couple years ago I got some big sheets of dinged-up watercolor paper from a friend. So I put one down on the worktable like a blotter, because over the years I am always finding some of the nicest paintings are the ones left over on the table around the edges of what I've been working on. When the calligraphy study group was here in December I got Marcia and Chris to help put some of their leftover colors and gilded bits on it. I gessoed a bunch of stuff on top of it, and painted papers, and practiced a little lettering, and watched all the patterns build up. Then I turned it over and did the same but completely different on the other side. Last night I eyeballed the dimensions and worked out how many pages in which direction to cut it down.
Today I folded and tore (very carefully! with professional tools!) this large heavy sheet down into folio, then quarto, then octavo pages. It is going to be a book! Thirty-two pages, including eight two-page spreads, still incomplete! The fun has only begun!
A couple years ago I got some big sheets of dinged-up watercolor paper from a friend. So I put one down on the worktable like a blotter, because over the years I am always finding some of the nicest paintings are the ones left over on the table around the edges of what I've been working on. When the calligraphy study group was here in December I got Marcia and Chris to help put some of their leftover colors and gilded bits on it. I gessoed a bunch of stuff on top of it, and painted papers, and practiced a little lettering, and watched all the patterns build up. Then I turned it over and did the same but completely different on the other side. Last night I eyeballed the dimensions and worked out how many pages in which direction to cut it down.
Today I folded and tore (very carefully! with professional tools!) this large heavy sheet down into folio, then quarto, then octavo pages. It is going to be a book! Thirty-two pages, including eight two-page spreads, still incomplete! The fun has only begun!