Category: Sketchbooks and Artist Books
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Chalado, Sketchbook, Mar 2025-
I just started working in this sketchbook. It was designed by my 4 year old. He drew the cover art and selected the fabrics and name for the book. The name is “Batty” in Spanish, which is his nickname.
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Queer, Sketchbook Sept-Oct 2024
“Queerly Loved” is the theme of this sketchbook artist book from September to October of 2024. I hand bind my sketchbooks, usually in this long stitch binding style I learned from Keith A. Smith’s Nonadhesive Binding Vol. I: Binding Without Paste or Glue. The outside of the cover was created from hand screenprinted fabric and…
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Gems to Watch Out for, Sketchbook Jul-Sept 2024
Artist book/sketchbook from July through September 2024. This is a hand bound long stitch book made from an old cereal box, book binding cord, and hand printed fabrics for the cover. The fabrics are relief wood block prints and screenprints appliqué stitched together using a sewing machine. The interior of the book is created from…
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Upsides Drown, Sketchbook, Jun-Jul 2024
Coptic bound book with found fabric cover. The cotton fabric was given to me by a friend in 2020 for sewing masks out of due to the sudden need for masks, which of course were very limited in availability, due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. I did sew many cloth masks for myself and my family,…
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Spooked Velvet, Sketchbook, May-Jun 2024
This handmade sketchbook/artist book is bound from the skin of an ice cream birthday party balloon over a cereal box. Inside are 22″x30″ oil paintings, etchings, and various other prints and drawings on BFK Rives cotton rag and found papers. 11″x17″ when open.
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N1, Artist Book
Coptic Bound Book of Letterpress, Relief, and Screenprints with Needle Felted Covers and Metal Rings, 8″x6″x2″, 2024
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Everything but Earth, Sketchbook, Apr-Sept 2023
Starting around 2019, I began giving themes to all of my hand-bound sketchbook/artist books. The theme for this tome, Everything but Earth, comes from a conversation with comic artist, printmaker, and publisher (Paper City Publishing) Andrew Kozlowski. We talked about my experiences with hurricanes, burns, floods, etc. and he remarked that I’ve been hit with…
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Predisastered Love Paradise, Sketchbook, June 2022-
This sketchbook was bound out of a novel draft by the great Edie Meidav, whom I had the pleasure to meet at a Hambidge Center residency Summer 2022.
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Virtual Kindergarten
Longstitch-bound Book made from Crayon Box, Red and White Copy Paper, and the Watercolor Paintings of Curt Levee Sanders, my child and virtual Kindergarten Student, Age 5.5; 4.5″ x 3″ x 1″; 2020
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The Book of Errors
Coptic-bound hardcover book comprised of repurposed hand-pulled prints (woodcut, linocut, screenprint, lithograph), graphite, watercolor, pen, colored pencil, collage, and mixed media; 11″ x 8″ x 4.5″; 2019-2020.
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Leaf Peeping, Sketchbook 2020
Coptic-bound Hard Cover Book with Quilted Cover Comprised of Repurposed Hand-Pulled Prints on Letterpress; graphite, watercolor, pen, ink, collage, and mixed media; 11″ x 9″ x 1.5″; 2020
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Women’s ABC Book
Coptic Bound book with a hand quilted and needle-felted cover, screenprint, colored pencil, pen, ink, watercolor, and mixed media on cotton rag paper; approx. 12″x13″x2″; 2019
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Field Guide Vol. VI: Homing
Details from: Case-Bound Book with Drawings and Watercolor on Paper; 8” x 20” x 2”; 2010
