ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - THIRD PAGE - TEZHIP 2 Another Tezhip to face the page with the first one. ("Tezhip" is the Turkish word for illuminated art - artwork with gold). As before, I used my gold gouache paint, and Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours for this. I followed the same tracing method as…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - SECOND PAGE - TEZHIP 1 "Tezhip" is the Turkish word for illuminated art - artwork with gold. Today I drew a lozenge-shape illuminated with gold and incorporating biomorphics (small flowers and leaves). I drew it on the reverse of the first page, and distressed the edges with inks as…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - FIRST PAGE - GREEN SHAMSA I began this small project primarily to demonstrate my new "Divide and Rule" drawing instruments, which I bought for the purpose of drawing concentric circles, radiating and parallel lines for my art projects. They are proving very easy to use. The Circle Tool and…
DIVIDE AND RULE - ISLAMIC ART No - that isn't a political statement - it's an art project using some exciting new drawing equipment! Divide and Rule Some time ago I came across a YouTube short, showing an exciting collection of specialist drawing materials. I was intrigued, and visited the site, "Divide and…
2025 - END OF YEAR REVIEW It's been a relatively quiet year, all told. Not a great deal to report on our normal activities. Most of my activity this year has been art-related. Studio changes I got some great new shelving units for the studio and reorganised things to make life a lot…
A POCKET OF POCKETS Continuing to build my stash of album elements and embellishments. This morning I watched a YouTube video where different ideas for junk journals were being explored, and among them was a floating pocket with subsidiary pockets front and back. It was quite attractive, and was folded from a single…
POCKETS AND PAPERCLIPS Continuing my plan to mass-make various elements for future album projects. Rescuing materials from the recycle bin I have a large box of all kinds of intriguing rubbish - cardboard packaging, greetings cards (often with detachable or interactive elements), window envelopes and so on. Having just made a load of…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 25 Embellishments In today's studio session, I added embellishments to several of the pages of the journal. There were also a few running repairs that needed to be done, mostly where the previous glue had failed, before I bought the E6000 which works much better…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 24 Starting the final embellishments Now that the book is bound, all that remains is to add some final embellishments. I began with the fold-out envelopey thing in the second signature. I originally intended filling the two triangular pockets with smaller tags and ephemera, but…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 23 Binding At last I have reached the point when I can bind this book! I have chosen to use a 5-hole pamphlet stitch binding rather than the standard 3-hole, because I wanted to be sure that all the different sized pages would be firmly…
