{"id":1039,"date":"2015-02-25T23:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2015-02-25T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:47:19","slug":"lemons-into-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/lemons-into-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemons into lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daily lettering earlier this week was pretty uninspiring. I had been trying all kinds of\u00a0gouache tints with various mark-making tools, all on a big sheet of black Arches Cover. It was a mess. I often tell myself this is a good piece of the collage bin. This time I cut out as many 2″ x 4″ windows as I could find on the piece and assembled it into this flag book.<\/p>\n

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The photo still has a slight purple\u00a0cast to it, but nothing like the electric blue cast it had straight out of the camera.<\/p>\n

Cover boards are wrapped in old scraps of amateur homemade book cloth — made a long time ago, before I convinced myself not to use synthetic fabric.\u00a0I painted the end papers when I couldn’t find anything that looked right.\u00a0The book is propped up on the book box I made of\u00a0more Arches Cover and off cuts of the lettering practice. Renaissance wax on the book box doesn’t seem to have been a great choice, but I may try adding another couple of layers later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My daily lettering earlier this week was pretty uninspiring. I had been trying all kinds of\u00a0gouache tints with various mark-making tools, all on a big sheet of black Arches Cover. It was a mess. I often tell myself this is a good piece of the collage bin. This time I cut out as many 2″ … <\/p>\n

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