Stab Binding

This is another book I made in Book Arts. This book is a stab bound book often made for portfolios or photo albums. One of the nice things about this book is that it is easy to add or remove pages as needed.

Marble Paper

Recently in my Book Arts class we were able to marble our own paper. This was a lot of fun for me since I am into printmaking and marbling paper is like monotype prints. I had so much fun in fact I was able to talk my wife into coming in the next day and make more marbled paper. Not all the paper came out as hoped but with practice I think I will get better at it. The top picture is all the marble paper that we did and the 3 following pictures are of my favorites.

Book 2

This was the second book for my class. The cover I used manila folder and cover it with a nice scrap booking paper that a friend had given me. The inside paper was torn down to 4 folios in 4 signatures.

Fisher of Men

This print was a lot of fun to make and it really is the print that got me thinking of symbols. In this print I used a lot of symbols, all base on Christianity. I used different techniques to create this print, line etching, aquatint, and a little engraving.

Pamphlet

I am taking a book arts class and in the class we learn to hand make books. A pamphlet was the very first book we had to make for the class. For the cover I used a mono type print that I made in my printmaking class.

As a side note please take a look at the Orphan Works post and write a letter.

Orphan Works

H.R. 5889 The Orphan Works Act of 2008

S 2913 The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008

This bill is very upsetting to me and I feel that we as a people need to fight this bill. In short this bill states that any visual image (home videos, a photo of your child, a painting, a sketch) can be taken and use commercially if they have provided a reasonably diligent search in good faith for the copyright owner in a registry that does not yet even exist. That means that we would have to spend thousands of dollars personally to protect our works from being used incorrectly. Not only that but we still would not have the rights to stop them form using the image because all they have to do is pay a reasonable fee for your work determined by the user and not the copyright holder (you).

The link provided below is a list of letters that are pre-written and you put you info at the bottom and then are sent to your senator and house rep.

write a letter

Melanie

A family in my ward had seen me doing some caricature while sitting in my ward and they asked if I could do a drawing of there child. At first it was going to be in the style of a caricature but in the end they wanted something more realistic so they gave me a photo to use for the charcoal drawing. They also wanted it to be smaller somewhere around 5" tall but I ended up making the drawing much larger, closer to 16" tall. Now it is framed and hanging in there child's room and it looks great.

Waiting

So far my printmaking class has been a lot of fun. This print I based off a previous print called "Waiting" as well. The phone and other objects in the print have faith driven symbolism that is intentional.

Leap Day Flyer

This was a fun little flyer that was made for another ward activity.

Cuddles in the Kitchen

This is a new print that I had to print two identical prints of. We had the use three different process's. The first process was line etching then I used an aquatint and in final I printed in a gradient of two colors.