SCRAPBOOK

In this post I am profiling another artist book I have made…my scrapbook. Only one copy, it contains images of other people’s work that I admire along with assorted memorabilia of my own. This book is not yet finished but once filled will possibly lead to another one. It does have some history though. Subsequent posts will be added to this one and the content of the book may change over time as images and pages are altered, removed and added. To begin with here are some sample page-spreads.

Double page spread in progress.

Starting with a blank paged, hard-covered sketch book I covered the covers with cloth then painted some of the double page spreads in various colours and a range of textures. To these I added images that I had collected or made, gluing them onto the pages, sometimes in random fashion and other times in related groupings. This relationship might be in terms of colour or commonality of subject or simply a whimsical choice. The above spread shows Kamishibai frame boards on the left and animation drawings by the cartoonist Chuck Jones on the right.

Double page spread in progress.

This spread juxtaposes a theatrical illustration with an add for a Gary Panter book. The white blotch at the join is accidental resulting from torn paper from the closing of pages before the paint had dried then re-opening them. It looks good though, I think.