after Tate Britain, Bookartbookshop

after Tate Britain I'm heading off to:

bookartbookshop in Oldstreet! It closes at 7:00 pm - it's well worth the visit (bring some spare pennies and pounds)

http://www.bookartbookshop.com/

hi this is my current book it shows a collection of artifical

hearts.

iv been looking at old school anatomy books [not stricyly artist books but they have many similarities]

above by Bouglé, Julien from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html

The Centre for the Artist Book (a-c)

I love the simple visual concept of running a well known characteristic over an accordion spread. Note how the book is housed inside a cassette case

http://www.grahamegalleries.com/?page_id=263

This is the book I made for the 'One Week Brief'; it is made out of one sheet of paper, and is created using collage and drawing with different materials including indian ink, biro, and watercolours. For the collection, I chose to base my book upon the outfits/clothes I had worn in the past seven days. I'm happy with the outcome of the book, however have gone onto develop my ideas for my book so that the focus is more on the illustrations; therefore, I am still going to include collage in my work but I don't want it to be so much of a focus point.

I really like fashion illustration, so want to continue on with this theme for my artists book; instead of using the clothes that I had worn in a week, I have now decided to focus on the floral trend. I have now started to experiment with drawing techniques and different media, and have started exploring different materials or images that can be used within the illustrations and collage.

As of yet, I have not found any other book artists who focus on fashion illustration as a theme; if anyone knows of any, could you please let me know as it would be helpful for my research. I have found some artists who use the same media or techniques/processes as me, and who produce work that I am really inspired by. One of these artists is Sharon McCartney, who produces artists book out of existing vintage books.

Her work is all created using mixed media, and collage of paper and images to create each page of her book. I would love to create a book that is inspired by McCartney's book as I think each and every page would be exciting and interesting in their own way.

Screen Printed Christmas Card Design

Marmotte Yodeling
I know its not a book, but Im thinking I may use this character in a little series (booky)
Im going to hand screen print a load of these at A6 to make xmas cards.
Because its going to be printed very small I didnt want to over complicate it as that would be tricky to print neatly. I need them to be neat and tidy so people will buy them. I decided not to use an overlap as the brown and blue make a mucky green puddle colour and I wanted to try a more regimented design. I will be doing overlap in my next poster though.
would like to know what you guys think?
thanks Daisy

oh and my website www.whitewolfillustrations.com take a gander if ya please

Stuff to do by 19th October

All of you by now will know, that you have to post the following:

1, post examples of artists' books that you feel your work relates to and say how and why:

2, can you also post examples of your own work related to book arts

all files should be under 1mb large, in jpeg format + no wider than 1024 pixels, unless you wish us to scroll across

-i decided to go back and revise the design, and thought more colour to catch eye would be more sucsessful, and two seprate ones so i cud make two in a pack :)

Tate Britain Artists Book Collection VISIT 15th October info!!

okay! There's no easy way:

http://ticketing.chilternrailways.co.uk/

Chiltern's is the cheapest (from Moor Street to Marylebone):
Dep. 10:55>Arr. 13:02 it will cost 5:00 pounds,
and then Dep. 21:00>Arr. 23:00 another 5:00 pounds

But the above times are no good for me, as I want to see Anish Kapoor here:
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/planyourvisit/
12 pounds Adult ticket, 8 for students!

and so I bought a NATIONAL EXPRESS fun fare down for a fiver! and will get a train back!:
Service: 420 Departing
Arriving
Journey Ref:
ZEYC-01-N8J8
Outbound Journey Birmingham
Central Coach Station, Oxford St, off Digbeth Oxford St (opp old Digbeth Coach Stn), Birmingham
08:00, Thu 15 Oct 2009
London
Victoria Coach Station
10:50, Thu 15 Oct 2009

in this way, I get to walk calmly around the Royal Academy, have my lunch in Green Park and then
Meet at the Tate Britain at 13:50 here:
The Clore Gallery entrance
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/information/access.htm
you can spot the entrance on this map:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/explore/etb.jsp
PLEASE PUT YOUR BAGS IN THE CLOAKROOM - and you can only bring in a notebook and pencil! NO PHOTOS!

If you fancy coming along with me in the morning that's fine, otherwise I shall meet you at the Tate Clore Gallery Entrance

Any questions please do ask in the "comments"

Tate Britain Artists Book Collection

Library Collection
Artists' books collection

The Artists' Books collection contains books (normally defined as a number of pages attached to each other in some way) that are wholly or primarily conceived by (though not necessarily actually produced by) an artist and that are made in multiple editions. The collection numbers about 4,000, includes books dating from the 1960s onwards and is international in scope with an emphasis on British artists.

Artists' books explore ideas and concepts through book form as much as content by, for example, disrupting the sequence and nature of the page, by using interesting materials and printing techniques, by use of codex and non-codex bindings.

You can search for Artists' books on the Library catalogue.

From the catalogue, you can locate specific books of interest that can be brought out for when you visit (unfortunately no pictures)

http://library.tate.org.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/eDECpCkyfn/LIBRARY/162120020/5/0

the following is by Jatinder Bains, winner of the BIAD Artists Book Award in 2008:
http://library.tate.org.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/QOz54qU7SR/LIBRARY/120600025/9

Something interesting...

I found these two books and thought you guys might appreciate the craftsmenship...plus they're both fairytale themed!

http://owengatley.blogspot.com/2009/07/made-this-concertina-book-telling-tale.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naomis-illu/sets/72157616029137546/

Me Selling my screen Prints and badges at 'ArtsFest'

Bambified Photography Loves White Wolf Illustrations Stall at 'ArtsFest' 13th September

Grow Pack Artist Book

2nd summer screen print project.
Folds up into a square book and opens out into an A4 poster.
To sell them I packaged them in plastic bags and put a business car, badge and some seeds in side.
I stuck a sticker on the outside of the bag with directions on how to plant the seeds.
I think these will sell better at artist book fairs but I did sell 3 at 'Artsfest' £6 each, which I thought was a good price.
I also made 3 different badge designs and hand pressed them together in uni, I chose a few different colour combinations for each design, I believe the badges were a great success, I made 60 and sold 40 at 50p each.

First summer screen print

'Let it Grow' poster
I ended up with 20 good ones to sell at 'Artsfest' 13th September, I sold 3 for £10 each, so was worth while.
They sort of go with the artist book I've made too, could be sold as a set, one supports the other.
I packaged them in brown paper with old fashioned tags, on which I wrote my details.

something to inspire :)

Just wanted to share this! real nice stuff, lovely ideas!

i particularly like the work of Peter Callesen and Elisa Mora (though anyone who knows me knows i cant resist a good fold or cut of paper! haha)

The work on here by Brian Dettmer, Su Blackwell and Ingrid Siliakus is probably more Artist Book Relevent, but this whole page in general is quite inspiring.

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