Artist book

The poem, ‘the fairies’ by William Allingham, has always been a favourite of mine. The fairies when I came across this tutorial for a book from a single sheet of paper (this has 16 ‘readable’ pages) I had to try it out. It’s actually really easy.

Tutorial

And I made this book. I added a separate, simple, wrap around cover. It only has half of the poem, I’m going to put the other half in another book. I love how it turned out.


The cover has these gorgeous granulating watercolours from Sennelier, I didn’t want to do anything else to them.


My favourite pages

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Very cool! I need to check out that tutorial!

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They pages are very interesting to explore. And I love the idea of spreading the poem over two volumes!

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This is beautiful! I love that the text is almost hidden unless you know to look for it.

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How big was the sheet of paper to start with this? I love the colors and style.

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It was either A1 or A0 and it was a heavy watercolour paper, so it has a nice heft.

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What a cool and colorful book!

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