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Book Arts Assignment: Make something out of a book!

This is a copy of Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1. My foster dog chewed up the dust cover and a few pages inside a few months ago but I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away because A) it’s vampire hunter d. I adore the artwork. And 2) i ( Read more... )

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First of two plates. They got a bit washed out from scanning. I didn’t take the time to adjust the scanners settings. I think I need to clean up my etchings just a little bit more. Some color got wiped away before printing on the jellyfish. The hearts were on a styrene plate, and ( Read more... )

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So I’ve been experimenting. It’s taken me months to actually pull a print off of my plates! This is a method I read about that was developed by Pamela Conway Caruso. The short of it is, etching a plate with what you want to print, and then going over the scrapes with watercolor pencil ( Read more... )

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I’m thinking about making my artwork available for purchase. At least some of it. I tried last year or the year before (i can’t remember) on etsy, but I didn’t market myself long enough or put enough effort into it. So here I am, in 2009, the year of me, trying again.

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When I was trying to think of titles, my dad mentioned InnerVisions album by Stevie Wonder… I liked the name so much that I kept it as Innervision… I don’t like how I inked the title on the cover. I think it looked better without the title on it at all, but I guess it needs to have ( Read more... )

I ordered my own snowboard today! WEE!!!!! Isn't it purrdy???

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This is my book without paper. It's steel plates that have had corners drilled through and fastened with a screw.
I stained them purple and wrote in silver marker the rearranged lyrics to The Birthday Massacre song Movie.


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This is my book without paper. It’s steel plates that have had corners drilled through and fastened with a screw.
I stained them purple and wrote in silver marker the rearranged lyrics to The Birthday Massacre song Movie.


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Okay so here are the revisions. I only made a couple of changes. I’m not sure if I like it. I guess we’ll see how my teacher grades it. I put more emphasis on words in the paragraphs, and broke them into smaller columns instead of big blocks. And I changed the halftone pattern in the ( Read more... )

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Alright so here is the 5 random words project, again. The cover of the book sucks. I don’t like it. I’m not even going to show it.

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