Planning ahead

[offcntr]

...for once.

Last week's book arts group meeting featured a demonstration on insetting a small piece of artwork into a book cover. Didn't have anything in particular I wanted to use, so I made up a little 2" square drawing, ink and colored pencil, to practice on. I wanted to actually use the resulting cover on a book, which meant I needed to also stitch up a text block, so I'd know how wide the spine needed to be. What could I use for pages?

How about drawing paper, for next fall's Inktober sketchbook?

Here she is, ready to go. I discovered that the faux-finished painter's kraft paper is both tough and flexible enough to burnish down into the inset, and I had a small scrap of paper batik, also on the painter's kraft, that made a nice spine. I managed to mount the cover board upside down, so what was meant to be an upper-right image is actually lower-left, but it's kinda growing on me.

And it mean's I'm not throwing together a sketchbook at midnight September 30!

Comments

[dine]

I like you book - good job, it looks great, and the offset picture works well, if slightly unexpected