Unbound Art

Fernando has been designing a notebook.  The shapes are selected from Taughannock Creek stones. These are the chosen stones in their final arrangement.  The stone shapes are carved into the cover board. The book cover is prepared. The book block and the cover are ready to be glued together. The stone shapes are also added to the back cover in low relief. The front and back boards have been covered in blue linen fabric. The stones are glued onto the cover. The beautiful front cover of the book.  The back cover. Finished! This lovely wedding guest book or personal journal is 6x9". Fernando - f@unboundart.com

One of my favorite design exercises starts by drawing a simple design (you can see the trials above) and then after one is chosen, I divide the composition into sections. In the examples below, the design gets increasingly complex as the composition is divided in half and then in half again, and so on. It's always a gamble as to how far to go. Sometimes the original design is the best, but if you choose a composition as I did, that you don't like very much, then it opens up new possibilities and new relationships between line and shapes. This design incorporates the grid in the horizontal and vertical divisions. You can also see that leaving space between the sections adds another element of line. the first ink drawing divided in half and rearranged divided into 4 sections divided into 8 sections By the time you get this many pieces, 16 shapes, you have quite a design puzzle. What's next?   I could keep arranging, looki...

I usually start with a very loose sketch, improvising as I go, but often the composition doesn't change radically after this stage. I work mostly on developing the value range and details after that.

Many Worlds, One Species Please view new drawings at Kim's  website , www.kimschrag.com.

The whole view - Down the Drain

I enjoy finding these characters in the drawings after the composition is done.  I don't really plan the characters, they seems to emerge on their own. I thought you might enjoy seeing them up close, since you don't have the original.

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