{"id":236,"date":"2008-07-30T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2008-07-30T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T16:47:00","slug":"book-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/book-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Book commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SJCbN4m0JKI\/AAAAAAAAAbk\/zG54Xs12UJo\/s1600-h\/07_30_commissionbook1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SJCbN4m0JKI\/AAAAAAAAAbk\/zG54Xs12UJo\/s320\/07_30_commissionbook1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228849830212936866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve just finished a book that was commissioned as a birthday present. It was such a Jekyll-and-Hyde experience. The text was simply lovely, and I enjoyed the design of the book. But for the longest time I simply could not complete a block of writing without spilling gouache on the page, skipping a word, or unknowingly shifting the guidelines. Once I got through those mistakes and got a block of lettering done, I found I had accidentally used regular tape to affix the page to the pad of paper that was acting as a writing cushion. When I removed the tape I wasn&#8217;t able to preserve the top layer of the corners of the pages. Aargh. So I started over again. But amidst all these starts and restarts, I came to the conclusion that the text paper I was using just didn&#8217;t present the gouache well. So I switched to Fabriano Ingres, which is such a ubiquitous paper that I didn&#8217;t think of it initially. The warmer cream color of the page looked gentler, and the gouache laid down better on the surface.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SJCbTw528JI\/AAAAAAAAAbs\/hz4oTNx809k\/s1600-h\/07_30_commissionbook2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SJCbTw528JI\/AAAAAAAAAbs\/hz4oTNx809k\/s320\/07_30_commissionbook2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228849931224543378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Alongside the frustration, though, was a satisfaction in writing a pretty wonderful text, something that was written very directly and personally. That part of the process was a real joy.<\/p>\n<p>I used a new roll of Japanese paper to back the gold\/tan silk that I found in the home decorating section of the fabric store. That went well; I believe this new kozo paper is a little thinner than the 15-year-old roll of Tableau that I&#8217;ve nearly used up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished a book that was commissioned as a birthday present. It was such a Jekyll-and-Hyde experience. The text was simply lovely, and I enjoyed the design of the book. But for the longest time I simply could not complete a block of writing without spilling gouache on the page, skipping a word, or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/book-commission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book commission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}