When we were at the Balôn last month, we found a box full of old wrist watch faces selling for between €0.50 and €2.00 (for the ones that still contained part of the mechanism attached to the face). I spent almost an hour choosing the best ones, and last week made two brooches. Here they are, along with a few photos of the faces alone:
(Last photo credit: Randa Carranza)
‘The Little Prince’ is one of my favorite books, so I decided to bind and illustrate a copy, and give it to my niece on her 11th birthday. She told me that she really liked it. You can see more of my bookbinding here.
My niece Maria Fernanda is now 8 years old, and since she always liked snails, I made a little 3D collage for her birthday, inspired by her fascination for strange creatures…
I’ve used sites like Photobox to make photo albums, and although it’s very convenient to do it on-line and quite cheap, the layout is very restricted, so you can’t apply all your creativity into it. The latest book I made is this one – I did buy the book, but added quite a lot in, using printed photos, ink stamps and different papers to add something extra.
The pictures were scanned from slides taken in the 70′s, and sometimes I kept the ‘vintage’ colours. Others have been retouched and enhanced.
I like to make books by hand. here are some examples from the last few years. I use a variety of fabrics and hand-made papers.
Chinese notebook
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