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110mm x 80mm photograph. Note on reverse (title).
Monet once travelled to London to see smog on the Thames. Dürer once risked six days on a freezing boat to paint a whale washed up on a beach. Artists such as Chardin and Morandi rarely left their studios, finding everything they needed at home. This painter has dropped by a Feldluftschiffer unit to paint one of their Parseval-Siegsfeld observation balloons.
By ✠ drakegoodman ✠
After searching many years for the perfect sketchbook, I finally gave up on the commercial brands and decided to make my own. For weeks I stayed up all night tearing paper, threading needles, poking holes in mat boards, and utilizing all kinds of gadgets, until finally I created the sketchbook I had been searching for. Here are the steps I used to make my favorite sketchbook.
1) Measure out and tear (using the side of a ruler) a full sheet (22" x 30") of Arches watercolor paper into eight, 7.5" x 11" sheets (a full sheet is actually 22.5 inches wide so the individual pieces will be 11.25" long including the deckle edge). Make sure the paper’s front side is up (watermark is readable on front side). Repeat until 4 full sheets have been torn into a total of 32, 7.5" x 11" sheets.
2) Organize torn sheets so all the deckled edges are together on the right side.
3) Cut two mat boards 7.75" x 11.75".
4) Wrap 2" wide, book binding cloth tape lengthwise around the left side of each cut mat board, with approximately 1" on top and 1" on the bottom. This will give the binding more support.
5) Sandwich the stack of paper in between the two mat boards with the deckled edges facing away from the taped ends. Take the book to FedEx Office (or any other office supply store that has binding), and have it spiral bound along the taped side. I had FedEx Office spiral bind my sketchbooks but it’s also possible to buy a spiral binding machine. Zutter’s Bind-It-all and We R Memory Keeper’s The Cinch*** are two products I’ve heard good things about and both have YouTube video demonstrations.
6) Once your book is bound, use an awl to punch two holes into the back side of the mat board. (It’s a good idea to put a couple of layers of cardboard behind the mat before making the holds so as not to poke a hole through anything else.) Using approximately 21" of elastic, push each end up through the holes and pull tight until the elastic is snug around the sketchbook. Overlap the two elastic ends and stitch them together with sturdy thread.
7) Finished!
***UPDATE***
I recently purchased "the Cinch" for binding books. The tool works quite well and easily punches through mat board. I purchased the 1" plastic spirals (it’s the only size they make) and found them too large. So I ordered the metal binders sizes (3/4" and 1") and they seem to work pretty well (I prefer the 3/4"). Ultimately, I like the binding better from FedEx Office but it’s not worth the hassle for me to drive and wait hours for my order to be completed. I think the Cinch will be my sketchbook binder of choice!
By The Artist on the Road
Divided reverse. No correspondence.
"An anatomical miracle that appeared for 15 days in Berlin theaters and for 1 month in Circus Schumann – With x-ray and photograph."
A talented member of Kaiser Alexander Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr.1 demonstrates his gift for sword swallowing by downing a Hirschfänger – a long, double-edged hunting knife used to kill deer and boar.
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By ✠ drakegoodman ✠
V0042040 The dance of death: the fight is over and death is seen seat
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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The dance of death: the fight is over and death is seen seated, enthroned on ruins composed of rubble and the dead. Drawing.
Published: –
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://j.mp/1wOAe1u
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V0041985 The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint by T.
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The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1816.
1816 By: Thomas RowlandsonPublished: –
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This photo was taken when poet William Butler Yeats was 58.
We have an ongoing exhibition celebrating the Life and Works of William Butler Yeats here in Dublin, but for those of you who are far, far away, it’s also online…
Date: 1923
NLI Ref.: INDH3464
By National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Artistic display of meat products from Irish Co-operative Meat Ltd., Waterford to tempt the palate in the run up to Christmas 1930. So we have sausages, black and white pudding (or maybe brawn?), and lard. The packaging on the lard proudly declares that it is "guaranteed perfectly pure" and "untouched by human hand". It cost 1/6.
(Virtual) 1lb. of sausages to anyone who can tell me the address for the meat factory in the 1930s, so I can add it to our Flickr map!
Date: 12 December 1930
NLI Ref.: P_WP_3770
By National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Faith school at Rosbercon, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Looks as if they were dressed up for a Nativity Play, but what the hell was the Wicked Witch of the West doing as part of the cast?
Date: 23 December 1930
NLI Ref.: P_WP_3785
By National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Divided reverse. No correspondence.
"An anatomical miracle that appeared for 15 days in Berlin theaters and for 1 month in Circus Schumann – With x-ray and photograph."
A talented member of Kaiser Alexander Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr.1 demonstrates his gift for sword swallowing by downing a Hirschfänger – a long, double-edged hunting knife used to kill deer and boar.
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Notes:
www.circopedia.org/Circus_Schumann_%28Frankfurt%29
By ✠ drakegoodman ✠