Candi Staton

Thought it would be fun to share some of the stages of a portrait

Still so much work to do but I am hoping I can get this portrait completed in time to include it in a zine of my artwork. I will be selling some copies at the craft market but I will also hold back copies to sell internationally online

Natasha

This is Natasha.

She lives in our bathroom, spins her webs, and bothers no one. She’s fine. It’s her prospective mates climbing over my neck in the night that I am not too keen on. They have a terrible sense of direction! This portrait of Natasha will be going into one of my notebooks. I’ve made a few with birds on the fly pages. Now it’s time for something a little different to go inside.

These books, along with more of my typed artworks will be on my table at a local craft market next month.

Roberta Flack

Almost finished portrait of Roberta Flack. The original version of this song is the best.

New cloud studies

For a new journal I’m binding this week. Good to get back to typing clouds again!

Raven for your caw

Variations

Cover design 1 in progress. Gold foil on maroon book cloth

Cover design 2. Ink on grey book cloth

Cover design 3. Silver foil on midnight blue book cloth

Jacket-slip typed on Smith-Corona Classic 12 6cpi

Pretty satisfied with the way this project has turned out. Now on to the next!

120 lino prints…

being sewn into a first run of ten little books

This is tank-top guy feeling festive

This is Crow, missing her friend Tank-top guy

Sometimes when you miss someone, you just have to caw them up on the phone…

and work out how to spend time together, in a corvid safe way.

Narrow it down to fit in a book

I’ve been going through some of my bookmarks collection for the book I’m reading…

As you can see, I have been using an envelope so far

This one seems quite apt

All the bookmarks can be seen Here at the UWE Book Arts page

Keeping up the habit

I made a new sketchbook for my watercolour skies and covered it in leftover leather scraps.

Book number three under way today. The Imperial Good Companion 5 makes a nice stand for a photo too.

July sky

I’ve had the same set of watercolours in a Windsor and Newton black enamel tin since I was a first year art student at Falmouth. Over the years the pans of colours have been renewed but it’s one of those little constants I return to that makes me feel secure. I started doing quick sketches in watercolour of lockdown skies in March. I didn’t think I would need to make another sketchbook to contain them all. Yesterday it was an even pale grey all day so I didn’t bother painting it. Today it looks more interesting so I may well do several. There are no rules other than to be guided by the wind.