Seven colors of Sharpie, including silver and copper. Did you know Sharpie makes non-oil/paint-based copper and gold colored markers now? They are just like the silver ones that have been around forever. Sweet!
Category Archives: finished work
a little Sharpie fun
I made this for a friend’s birthday. Please pardon the poor lighting. I don’t have time to take a picture in the daylight. But good daylight is kind of hit or miss in England anyway… Seven colors of Sharpie marker, eight including the silver. On a brown paper envelope I cut apart! I like the contrast of the silver with the brown.
a new sketchbook
I’ve been devising new Japanese stab binding designs for nearly two years, and my sketchbook has gone along with me on quite a few travels. And now…it’s full! So I made a new one.
Here is my old friend…
And my new one, with a bit more pizazz:
Both binds were from Keith A Smith’s book on section sewings.
chinese brush!
So….this kind of calligraphy is much harder than it looks. But then again, you’re probably not supposed to do such drastic curves either. It was fun to smear ink around, but… I think I’ll stick to sharpies.
sharpie lettering
Getting back into lettering…I’m a touch on the rusty side. I like parts of this, but others could have been better. As I draw more I think I’m going to back off sentences and just focus on one word designs for a while.
TOMS #2
Second pair of decorated TOMS, for a friend. Hooray sharpies!
folded square lotus book
Just for fun.
adding leather: a first experiment
I recently managed to get my hands on around 8 lbs of shoe leather scraps. I have a couple of different ideas of what I might do with it. It was weird to sew. The scrap I chose to use for this book had some flaws, but it was soft and there was enough in the one piece for the spine and four corners. It was so thick that I wasn’t able to fold it over the edges of bookboard like a normal leather half-bind, so instead I glued it all to a thick piece of cardstock. I used PVA…..never again! It was everywhere! Next leather experiment will be with wheat paste. (as soon as I find some.)
The bind is loosely based on two of Keith A. Smith’s 2 section sewings… the inside (3 & 4) sections are sewn together, the middle inside (2 & 5) sections and then the outside.
TOMS
A friend and I have been meaning to each decorate a pair of TOMS shoes for months now. We finally managed it today! Seven hours later, here are what mine look like. If you can believe it, they are even brighter in person! We used sharpie markers.
japanese stab binding: variations on arrows
