little single-signature books

I'm putting these here because I've given most of these away and now can't remember what I had made and how I made it. I forgot to take photos of some before I gave them away. If I remember (ha ha ha! 😁). I will keep adding to this page so I have them all together for my reference. Roz said all the time to take notes on the order of the layers and what media was used so it could be recreated. Of course I didn't and now I'm playing catch-up.

This one has a surprise! Cover is Strathmore 400 100 lb drawing paper and inside is vellum 90 lb drawing paper. The usual multi layer gelli work. The yellow was still the white paper and I started using up some of my sample inks with the glass pen and watercolor liner brush. The darker center is Noodlers Habanero, then the yellow is De Atramentis Mahatma Gandhi ink, and Diamine Brandy Dazzle scribble. Here's what's crazy the B discovered -- the Mahatma Gandhi flouresces!!!!

No home for this one yet. My first printed pamphlet book. I made the stencil. A few months or weeks later I painted the background and added the bubble wrap and added the red. Cover is Bockingford blue and paper is Arches Text Wove. Bockingford makes a great cover. The taped edges come off easily. I used the stencil on two fish cards as well and they are more appealing to look at but kind of murky.

Yin has this. I cut the circles from thin but firm plastic and used the negative space leftover, not the circles, as the gelli stencil on a background I already did the wiggly stuff on as the first layer. Yin thought it looked like moons or planets.

I'm keeping. Didn't like it. The layers of mostly water soluble inks were getting muddy and then I added the scribble text in white and I like it for now. I was playing with the bamboo pens and the glass pen and some of my sample inks and checking to see how permanent or not they were. The white ink is the Pilot gel pen in white. No focus but for a cover of a book of writing it works fine. Cover Rives BFK (sand I think is the color); paper Zerkall Frankfurt 120 gsm. I like the toned Rives BFK but I have to be careful taking off the tape and I even use the fussy expensive Nichiban tape and it still pulls off fibers if I'm not super careful.

Amy in NYC has this. I can't remember how I did this. First it was the dark background with the circle shapes? Then the ghost of the yellow leaf? No. Background was yellow pattern. Then I did a gelli with the dark and put a leaf over it, then put the ghost on top of that or else the leaf. I can't remember. Cover is Rives BFK and paper is Arches Text Wove.

Asiya has this. I didn't like the first background and added the leaves and red section on a gelli print to the background. It grew on me in a good way. Cover is Rives BFK and paper is Arches Text Wove.

Dave M. has this. This was many layers and I had to fix and fix. When I don't like a project I think about what don't I like and usually it's lack of contrast, lack of brightness, lack of focal point, lack of complimentary color zip. This got muddy and dark and I added the white ArtGraf the gold alien flowers and it was done for then. Cover is Rives BFK and paper is Arches Text Wove.

I have this one. This is an early pamphlet. I took it to Shinrin Yoku camp in September and made my drawings and notes for that week. It was just the right size. Cover is Rives BFK and paper is Arches Text Wove. Gelli print.

This one was done in the same session as the other fluorescing Mahatma Gandhi pamphlet. Cover: Rives BFK, paper: drawing paper (the stuff at WP that V had on sale). This started as a gelli with leaf print and it's ghost and then I added another leaf layer with a lighter color and wrecked it so did the stencil over the top with a darker color. I looked fine enough but not leaving well enough alone I added lines with a gold Uniball.