{"id":1308,"date":"2012-09-26T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2012-11-12T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:35:53","slug":"part-1-of-a-collaborative-artists-book-with-my-friend-chelsea-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/part-1-of-a-collaborative-artists-book-with-my-friend-chelsea-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1 of A Collaborative Artist’s Book With My Friend Chelsea Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lichen<\/a><\/p>\n

I live in a very scenic part of the country – not only are we surrounded by ocean, but we also have some very lovely woods, including a 300 acre parcel of land gifted to the town, crisscrossed by wooded paths. A local gallery is having a show commemorating the 40th anniversary of the gifting of the woods, and my friend Chelsea and I were asked to participate!<\/p>\n

We put our heads together and came up with a collaborative artist’s book – Chelsea, a talented illustrator as well as print and fiber artist<\/a>, would create the “innards” of an accordion book, and I would make the covers. This post is the first of a six-part series detailing the assembly of the book! If you want to make sure you catch all the steps, you can subscribe via email<\/a>, or RSS feed<\/a>. (or just keep checking back, I’ll have a new step every other day)
\nPart 1 |\u00c2\u00a0Part 2<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 3<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 4<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 5<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0|\u00c2\u00a0Part 6<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rock<\/p>\n

\"Meowstro<\/p>\n

Photo 1:<\/strong> I don’t have any photos of Chelsea drawing, but here you can see part of the finished piece – it was too long to fit in one photo! The drawing was about 48 inches long, on lovely thick printmaking paper, and it’s a pen and ink wash of a long stone wall of the kind made by the original settlers in the area, 400 years ago!<\/p>\n

Photo 2:<\/strong> Here I’ve folded it accordion style, into 8 panels – Chelsea had marked where the folds would go on the back in light pencil.<\/p>\n

Photo 3:<\/strong> Here I’m measuring the book board covers – the finished size for the folded drawing was 6″x9″, so I made the cover 6.25″x7.25″ (1\/8″ overhang on all sides). Traditionally accordion books, which originated in Asia from folded scrolls (they store more easily) had covers the same size as the text block, but I find it a little more forgiving when you glue everything together to have overhang.<\/p>\n

Photo 4:<\/strong> Of course Meowstro<\/a> came to see what was up and “helped” me by lying on the cover sheet – thanks cat!<\/p>\n

Part 1 | Part 2<\/a> | Part 3<\/a> | Part 4<\/a> | Part 5<\/a> | Part 6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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