Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
Making the Cover 2
A course by Evan Lorenzen , Multidisciplinary Artist
About the video: Making the Cover 2
Overview
“The next step of the process is to cut a piece of decorative paper for the inside of the cover. It’s a technique adapted from the endpapers you can find in larger books.”
In this video lesson Evan Lorenzen addresses the topic: Making the Cover 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration. Learn how to tell your story intricately by making a teeny tiny book from scratch and filling it with precise, micro-scale illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Making the Cover Next step is to cut a piece of decorative paper for the inside. On a larger book, we would create two end pages that fit on either side but in this small version, we don't have space to glue things that tightly and precisely. We'll slightly change it and make it work for our scale. Taking your decorative paper, I'll be using this kind, flip it over to the backside to make some measurements and marks. At this point, you don't need to measure it out, you can do it visually. I want a bit of space on the inside to show my book cloth but not very much, maybe 1 mm or 2 mm. I'll...”
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Course summary for: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Traditional illustration
Evan Lorenzen
A course by Evan Lorenzen
Evan Lorenzen, better known as Art and Such Evan, is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in micro illustrations. While studying animation in college, he became interested in bookmaking and took a course to learn the process. Several years later, he decided to try it on a small scale and has been passionate about the medium of miniature ever since, as it challenges both his physical and creative limits.
Throughout his career, Evan has had the opportunity to collaborate with organizations like the Miniature Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, Cat Art Show L.A., and hundreds of individual collectors. His work has been featured in exhibits across the US and abroad, including the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and the Nucleus Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
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