Concertina book ideas

I am keeping the same colour scheme for the reverse side of my pocket concertina, but with a coastal theme. I am looking back at lines and shapes from sketches made by the sea and finding suitable …

visual exploration and idea development for Art Practice

Next up in my handmade tiny books -- a collection of some of my most popular pen and ink drawings, the Loosey Goosey portrait series. ...

How to make a simple concertina sketchbook from a single sheet of paper.

I’ve tried using concertina/accordion-fold sketchbooks in the past, but found them very awkward to use when out and about. They’re usually spineless (like this Seawhite version and my h…

Our teenage students spent term two art classes creating concertina books of their threatened species

The [artists’ book] movement had its beginnings with a few individuals (conceptual artists Dieter Roth, Hansjörg Mayer, and Ed Ruscha immediately come to mind), but in the area of structural …

I am still trying out different ways of working in enamel using this concertina book form as a vehicle for my experiments. I have used my own photographs of early entomological collections making them into enamel transfers. Then I have sand blasted label shapes and beetles into the enamel surface. Rust will happen!!

Back to the sketch book to plan a set of spiral note books in steel and enamel. Planning to keep them simple, uncluttered and 3"x 2".

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