books – Saint Beckett

I’ve started something…

…..I shouldn’t have.

I make my own problems.

I am entering some bookbindings for a show, but decided I should illustrate the books as well. Nobody asked me to. I’m my own worst enemy.

More annoying promo’s

So, in just over a month I will be having a picture party of what I’ve been up to since 2017. I can’t guarantee anything. It could be my last show. Depends on if anyone pisses me off or not.

It’s quite likely though.

The architecture of…..

…..yumminess.

Page from a book I’ve made of an old exhibition. I will have this and more on show in April at The Watch House, Balmain. April 4-6.

Working on some new things…

….using old stories.

My intention is to make little illustrated classic books. But that’s just an idea.

Animal Crackers book …

…..is going to be wheeled out again.

Fancy artist edition coming soon.

For better or worse….

…I finished my books for the Easter show.

Top. The War of the Worlds, a newly case bound multi section book, with the textbook from Binders Edition. I painted new endpapers and cover illustrations, and free hand tooled the cover design. And hand sewn end bands.

Middle. A repair and rebind of Mrs. Beeton’s Shilling Cookbook. It was missing the covers and first few pages, so I made and designed new covers and endpapers by hand colouring prints of some of the plates inside the book. The book is sewn on cords and laced into the cover boards, 1/4 Leather bound, with my dodgy hand drawn blocking.

Bottom. Pictures of Sound, which is a booklet and CD from Dust To Digital. They have a digital download. Being in Australia it’s really expensive to get their things here, so I figured I would print my own booklets and make my own special editions. This is a stab sewn textbook with simple printed paper covered board for the covers, with inlaid prints of the CD cover from and back. Endpapers are made from images from the booklet.

A bit bound up.

I bought text block sheets of the “Bookbinder of Jericho.” The paper wasn’t the best, so I just did a basic case bound. But I made my own cover and endpapers.

I suppose I should read it now.

Making a little test book…..

…..as I agreed to enter a book binding thing of binding a text block based on a letter by Nicolas Baudin disputing Captain Cook’s findings of Terra Nullius.

I’m trying some things out as I’ve made my own cords that I want visible on the inside of the book, and parts of the outside. Not sure how I feel about them on the outside yet. Glad I’ve done a dummy run.