Here is the front cover for my newest handmade book. The cover is made of heavy paper board (mountain dew box) covered with a sheet of the unsized handmade paper (recycled junk mail). The painting was done in stages with watercolors. The texture of the paper and the lack of sizing (starch) found in comercially made papers made for a very interesting effect, that I happen to like. I learned the hard way that my paper being on the light weight side is also very fragile when wet, but fairly easily mendend.Here are a few shots of the cover as it was coming along. First up is the mountain dew box being taken apart and cut to size. Then next is what some of the sheet of paper I made made look like before being glued to the box pieces. Then what the covers looked like before painting began. The last one is of the tree before the sye was added.
