{"id":144,"date":"2007-07-29T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2007-07-29T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T13:46:00","slug":"final-project-for-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/29\/final-project-for-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Final project for class"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Wednesday is the last class of the semester, and that’s the day this artist book is due. I’m about 20% through, which is not good. Once again, I’m trying to do something that is too complicated for the time allotted. This is an abecedary bestiary about creepy-crawlies, a subject which is constantly in mind by the end of summer in Florida.<\/p>\n

I’ve had to cheat on Q: it was either include the Queensland beetle — whose appearance in Florida is only anticipated with dread but not actually in the population — or something else. I chose something else: the mosQuito. I’ll put the mosquito in the Q, I think. No creepy-crawliary of Florida would be complete without the mosQuito anyway.<\/p>\n

The nematode, whose microscopic head and tail are blown up across two pages and two papers, was drawn with a school nib and Chinese stick ink and McCaffrey’s ivory ink. I knew<\/span> drawing on that unsized leaf-inclusion paper would be a difficulty. But I did it anyway. You can see some bleed-through on the next spread for the zebra butterfly. Oh well. I kind of like that too.<\/p>\n

The zebra butterfly image is an acetone image transfer of a photocopy of a drawing I made by using a folded pen (a butterfly pen, it’s called, haha). The image transfer is a little “pebbly,” probably because of the texture of the Arches Text Wove paper it’s on. I like it. The bit of vermilion gouache matches the rust-colored leaf-inclusion paper better than is shown by the photograph, which turns the rust sort of maroon, for some reason.
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Wednesday is the last class of the semester, and that’s the day this artist book is due. I’m about 20% through, which is not good. Once again, I’m trying to do something that is too complicated for the time allotted. This is an abecedary bestiary about creepy-crawlies, a subject which is constantly in mind by … <\/p>\n

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