Handmade books

 A sample of some handmade books I have made.

 

 

 

Recycled handmade book.

The cover is brown packaging painted with 

acrylic and colored pencil.

 

 Inside the cover lined with scrapbook paper scraps. 

The hard cover is the cardboard back of the watercolor paper pad.

 Old acrylic paintings are painted black on the back

and folded and bound as signatures inside the book. 

 

 

This cover is repainted watercolor paper.

The calligraphy is written on scraps.

 The pages are recycled junk mail envelopes painted black.

 The envelopes are marked with doodles in white colored pencil.

I kept the original rips and windows. 

 

The pages are out of order: this is the inside cover and 1st page.

 

I place cut-outs and stickers that I call trinkets

in the top of the envelope. 

The signatures are sewn with a long stitch using black and white baker's twine. 

 

 

100 day project: trinkets for journal

 Making flaps for my journal, I missed a few days posting.

 I make a new version of this one every so often.

 

 Are they sentient? Are they aware?

 

 

 

100 day projects making pages in advance (more faces)

 Blank journal pages.  I have a daily practice in my commonplace book.

 

Ready for brief notes or writing practice.

 

 

Having them ready for my future self.

 

100 day project daily diary/art practice (commonplace pages)

 Writing in my journal and commonplace book

is a major part of my daily art practice. I work on it every day.

 

I Ching notes, YouTube note-taking practice.

 

See supplies for the markers I use.

 

Morning ideas

 

100 day project: Single signature journal

 

A work in progress, the cover is hand-drawn, and the spine is 

reinforced with clear sticker paper.

 Pockets from recycled painted packing paper

I love stuffing them with tags and drawings.

 

More pockets and doodled pages.

 Junk mail envelope, painted and lined. I love

simple pattern on pattern.

pocket in use

From my rug design series. I used black and white

bakers twine to sew the signature together. 

 

The other side of the envelope, with a pocket.

 The back side of the envelope, with more hand-drawn flowers.

The last page is hand-drawn with double pockets.

 

More pictures of the items stuffed in the pockets will be here

when I complete them. 

100 day project more pages from journal

 More pages from journal:

 More pages:

 This journal is a work in progress. I am still working on the cover.

The tabs are: heal, joy, faith, fortune, create, luck, heart and action.

I will post the tags, and the contents of the pockets. 

100 day project pages from handmade journal

 

First pages of journal: Full of pockets because I love pockets.

 Journal with stuffed pockets.

Journal with flap open.

 

Pink Junk Journal

 

 Most of this journal comes from junk envelopes,

 the kind that you rip open, or they have safety liners, 

odd unmatching sizes, or there are just too many of them.

To use the envelopes in a meaningful way, 

I painted them black and hand drew simple doodles on them, 

turning the trash into signatures.

The pockets are from painted brown paper, 

that lines the shipping boxes.

I made tags printed on tea-dyed paper and tea-dyed cardstock.

The cover is made from 140 lb acrylic painted watercolor paper.

The signatures are sewn with baker's twine. 

Foliage is cut from textured cardstock, and jewels 

and charms are clipped to the pages.

 

The inspiration for this book and the rest in the series 

I am making the medieval manuscripts from the  century.