Three charcoal drawing studies.
Accordion Books
Here are some close ups of joining pages and of cover treatments.
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1. Here the pages are cut with extra paper at one end to over lap the next page on the back.
2. This uses medical paper tape available at drug stores to butt two pages.
These joins are done after the pages are prepared and cut to size.3. The pages of this book are prepared and placed in a separate cover which has two folds giving three parts: back, front and an inside flap. You can glue your first page in place and glue the inside flap over it but sometimes it’s nice to leave it loose.
4. This shows the page glued to a separate front cover and covered with a textured endpaper.
One and four are Canson paper, two and three are computer paper with a heavy paper for three’s cover.
Accordion Book
My friend, Sally, asked me about accordion books and I think an image explains it better than lots of words. She asked about a 16 page book and this is a 6 page one but I think she’ll get it!
I made this years ago for another friend, Mary—we met when we were 13, and I was riding my bike trying to get up nerve to say HI to the new girl and found out later if I had gone past her one more time she was going to throw dirt balls at me! We’ve been best friend ever since!
Mary’s Book
So much for spring. . .
White dusting on the lawn with more slush and snow tonight. At least I had a glimpse of things to come!
Spring is down there. . .
The snow has finally melted – there’s more on they way – but I can finally see what’s peeking about in my garden and if I look very close I can see some fat buds on the forsythia and more exciting are the little bumps of daffodils poking through the leaves!
Come on Spring!!!
Happy Valentine’s Day
Forget the candy, forget the flowers, forget the gifts. Just to have a day to celebrate Love and Joy is a very good thing. (I do love to get flowers in bleak Feburary, but spring flowers, like tulips!)
