Doesn't this look like fun? I'll be doing this in the New Year. If you live in London, you can still join up I believe.

I finally bound this last night and the third hole I punched was out of line with the others. I nearly exploded or imploded or something drastic! I just froze and stared at it fixedly, thinking "this book has nearly 30 pages. It took ages to choose the dictionary pages that would work with the structure and content of the book. They are original pages, covered with original drawings. They took ages to plan and prepare." You'll notice I was being careful not to go down my old path of (wailing) "It's all ruined!" A few deep breaths and a life time later, I started thinking about how I could patch that hole and carry on. I am delighted with the final book, and proud of myself for not melting down and throwing it across the room, probably wrecking it further in the process. I'll show you the cover later, but here are the first and last pages (I have them all scanned to use in future projects.) Dictionary Fauna from
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I am working on artist books for the class I am taking on artist books. I am working on three: "not THAT facebook" which is a collection of faces in magazines with the background collaged over, and blank pages for me to try and draw those faces; "a seed grows in a hidden place" which is a series of drawings depicting the imaginary development of the soul trees I started drawing this year; and "dictionary fauna" which is a mixed media book built on dictionary pages showing different animal definitions (a-z) with single line sketches of each animal and stamped text.

As you can see, I am not a one project start to finish kinda gal! I'll post some scans of these later on...