Showing posts with label Daylily book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daylily book. Show all posts

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Artist book capers continue, with the Daylily Book

Here's another artist's book, getting ready for November exhibit.  



This is where I used those laminated (layered) pieces I made, with the daylily dried stems enclosed in them.  I have one extra piece, which I showed the other way up so you can see the copper exterior.




the six pages are made from daylily flowers, not foliage.  That's why they're more of a golden color than the bronzy green you get with foliage.

Inside the covers is metallic gold paint, outside is copper.  Stitched with a gold thread.  And called, oddly enough, Daylily.



Posed here with the plants I got the raw materials from.  



This is the second growth of the daylilies, since all the first growth went into paper, and the flowers and stems likewise. 

This is a kind of thank you to the daylilies as well as a demo to you of what went into making this book. 

Helping a neighbor groom a houseplant today, and the big leaves we cut off came home with me to make paper eventually, once they dry.   Art sources never end.