Baltimore Sonnets

handcrafted mixed-media book 268 Materials 1. Linocuts 2. Road maps 3. Handmade paper (made in Japan) 4. Vellum 5. Mathematics page 6. Pencil 7. Acrylic Binding & Cover 1.  Book boards .087 2. Archival adhesives 3. Acrylic mediums 4. Linen thread Techniques 1. Illustrations 2. Mixed Media 3. Linocuts ...

View of first page of January 4, 2015 View of endpapers at the beginning of the book Materials 1. Handmade black paper 2. Strathmore 100% cotton, acid free, archival paper 3. Arches watercolor paper 4. Vellum 5. Antique postage stamps 6. Antique map 7. Charbonnel inks 8. Acrylic paints Binding 1. Hollander's book board .087 2. Decorative paper from India (screen printed) 3. Acid free adhesive, PVA glue Poem Black Books (fragment)

I made a special gift for my Russian language instructor, All wrapped in red . . .   and presented it to her after our exams. Gold book with textured gold cover My Russian language instructor holding her one-of-a-kind handmade book. Большое спасибо!

Where there is a will, there is a way.  Between the Covers : Worldview book (one of a kind), 2015   Between the Covers: binder's boards, acrylic, mica chips, Japanese paper, archival adhesive Lucky color: ocean blue Lucky number: 606