BOOKS AS AN ART

It’s been on my dining table since it arrived Monday and every time I see it I smile. It’s so perfect.

The endpapers even look like layers of old concert flyers??

She included my “mix tapes” for each chapter…

I used my real name on the cover (and took out the spicy bits) in case I ever want to share it with real-life friends, hence the censoring 😂

I am IN LOVE with the art and the font.

It GLOWS IN THE DARK!!!

I put so much love and effort into this fic, I’m still so proud of it, and there’s something about seeing it bound, seeing the actual thickness of it and the number of pages, that is so rewarding and satisfying — I keep getting choked up holding it.

a book i made for a class of the counting crows poem - each page has a unique piece of art printed on it along with a line from the poem. it has a mix of screenprinting, linocut, and solvent transfer of digital designs, charcoal, ink, paint, and papercut pieces, and is made of 100% recycled materials including hand-made recycled paper.

THE NURSERY RHYME BOOK (London/New York/Paris: Raphael Tuck, c.1890) Illustrations by Jennie Harbour. Father Tuck’s Golden Gift Series.

HORAE SUCCESSIVAE by Henshaw (1632)