Painted Books

2012-02-19T08:22:00.000-08:00

Brian Dettmer = book surgeon. more here

2012-02-10T13:17:00.000-08:00

Edin Cook's First Book

Sikh Temple Delhi

2012-02-03T08:59:00.000-08:00

Me and Courtney Zielger

Three Readers in the temple

One of the readers

Sumakshi Singh's Delhi book installation at Religare

2012-01-27T10:06:00.000-08:00

Sumakshi Singh standing in her installation

The video image of people standing in the installation and completing the perspective

Small Pond by Clifton Meador

2011-11-19T14:52:00.000-08:00

Journal of Artists'
Books (JAB), Issue number 21

Small Pond -

The Small Pond by Clifton Meador

2011-11-19T14:22:00.000-08:00

Journal of Artists'
Books (JAB), Issue number 21

BookDemo 9

2011-11-18T13:27:00.000-08:00

BookDemo 8

2011-11-18T13:19:00.000-08:00

BookDemo 7

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BookDemo 6

2011-11-18T12:48:00.000-08:00

BookDemo 5

2011-11-18T12:30:00.001-08:00

BookDemo 4

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Part 3

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Part 2

2011-11-18T11:09:00.000-08:00

BookDemoPart 1

2011-11-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

Fixation of women's body parts

2011-11-18T07:43:00.000-08:00

Sara T's Painted Book

2011-10-28T08:01:00.000-07:00

Sara Tabatabaie-Raissi here, and this is the first half, or so, of my painted book. I have been working with setting up the forms, color, and composition of a pattern, and then manipulating these elements with each new page.

2011-10-14T11:48:00.000-07:00

_ "SOCIAL ENTROPY" - ANDY ENOCH WONG _

def. a measure of natural decay within a social system

Niaz

2011-10-14T11:35:00.000-07:00

I am working on a book of a few of my favorite childhood poems

The first poem in the book is called "Hamdardi" By Allama Iqbal

It is about a nightingale and a firefly
a nightingale finds himself lost and can not find his way home
it's late and dark and the nightingale is tired and scared
the firefly comes and comforts him and guides the nightingale home
:)

First Page: (Title)

Third Page:

Fifth Page:

this poem is complete ... pictures coming soon.

The second poem in my book is "Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua" also by Iqbal
this is a "Dua" or "prayer" written when Pakisan first became a country
It is about Faith

Pieces of a poem

2011-10-14T05:46:00.000-07:00

My book consists of abstract pages that are used to form an image poem. My goal for this book is to allow people to create something that reflects their subconscious self.

by Julia Von De Bur

Rilke's Sixth Elegy

2011-10-07T12:33:00.000-07:00

My book is an abstract visual translation of Rilke's sixth elegy.

Fig-tree, for such a long time I have found meaning
in the way you almost completely omit your blossoms
and urge your pure mystery, unproclaimed,
into the early ripening fruit.
Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs drive the sap
downward and up again: almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan.
. . . . . . But we still linger, alas,
we, whose pride is in blossoming; we enter the overdue
interior of our final fruit and are already betrayed.
In only a few does the urge to action rise up
so powerfully that they stop, glowing in their heart's abundance,
while, like the soft night air, the temptation to blossom
touches their tender mouths, touches their eyelids, softly:
heroes perhaps, and those chosen to disappear early,
whose veins Death the gardener twists into a different pattern.
These plunge on ahead: in advance of their own smile
like the team of galloping horses before the triumphant
pharaoh in the mildly hollowed reliefs at Karnak.

The hero is strangely close to those who died young. Permanence
does not concern him. He lives in continual ascent,
moving on into the ever-changed constellation
of perpetual danger. Few could find him there. But
Fate, which is silent about us, suddenly grows inspired
and sings him into the storm of his onrushing world.
I hear no one like him. All at once I am pierced
by his darkened voice, carried on the streaming air.

Then how gladly I would hide from the longing to be once again
oh a boy once again, with my life before me, to sit
leaning on future arms and reading Samson,
how from his mother first nothing, then everything, was born.

Wasn't he a hero inside you, mother? didn't
his imperious choosing already begin there, in you?
Thousands seethed in your womb, wanting to be him,
but look: he grasped and excluded--, chose and prevailed.
And if he demolished pillars, it was when he burst
from the world of your body into the narrower world, where again
he chose and prevailed. O mothers of heroes, O sources
of ravaging floods! You ravines into which
virgins have plunged, lamenting,
from the highest rim of the heart, sacrifices to the son.
For whenever the hero stormed through the stations of love,
each heartbeat intended for him lifted him up, beyond it;
and, turning away, he stood there, at the end of all smiles,--transfigured.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell

wonji's illustration

2011-09-30T11:06:00.000-07:00

The first image is one of my illustration.
The second is book cover, and the last is a page in the book.

Hairman and his friend

2011-09-30T09:23:00.000-07:00

I made up a character for my book. It does not have a name yet, but it is coming from my paintings, which include a lot of strings. Colors are also coming from my paintings. As I explore this character more and more, I slowly realized that these are series of self-portraits. (maybe my family? or friends.)

K. Choi

Imaginary Characters

2011-09-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

I painted these portraits of people who I created through my imagination. To my knowledge, I have not seen these people in real life. The 20 portraits are all confrontational in their stare, yet some appear to be hesitating. The characters have disabilities or oddities in their faces such as uneven or enlarged eyes and crooked jaws.

Paintings

2011-09-19T22:22:00.000-07:00

These are photos I took of some of my pages:

Black and White Version of First Completed Page

2011-09-16T12:39:00.000-07:00

Bridgette Armet

For Japan Drawing Concluded

2011-05-18T16:23:00.000-07:00

Our Painted Book, along with many other artworks created by SAIC students raised over $2000 for Red Cross efforts in Japan.

2011-04-21T16:05:00.000-07:00

http://littlecages.tumblr.com/ (will follow back) :)

Information about Raffle of our Book for Japan

2011-04-15T12:05:00.000-07:00

For Japan

Raffle Ticket Price: $10

Moved and dismayed by the cataclysmic events of Japan's earth quakes, tsunami and nuclear fallout, School of the Art Institute of Chicago students in Deborah Boardman’s “Painted Books” class decided to create For Japan, a Painted Book with original painted folios contributed by each class member to be raffled off to raise money to send for the Red Cross relief effort in Japan. https://www.americanredcross.org

We were inspired to follow the example of Diem Chau, http://tinyhaus.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-japan.html, who raised nearly $6000 by randomly selecting two of hundreds of raffle entries.

Here's how it works:

To participate, make a donation to The American Red Cross society for the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami relief effort in $10.00 increments, and email the confirmation page to dboardman@deborahboardman.com. You will receive an email confirmation and raffle ticket # back.

Prize: The beautiful, hand painted, exquisitely bound by Master Book Binder Karen Lee, unique Painted Book, For Japan.

Ticket sales start now and will go until May 9. The winner will be announced Monday, 5/9/11 from 4:30-6pm in the SAIC Ballroom. The more tickets we sell the more we can raise for Japan!

Selection Process: A random winner will be picked via Random.org. We will post the results of the drawing on May 9.

Donation Proceeds: 100% of all ticket sales will go to the American Red Cross Society’s relief efforts in Japan. We will pay for all fees and shipping costs.

Photographs of our class collaboration "Book for Japan"

2011-04-13T07:03:00.001-07:00

Songs for Japan

2011-04-12T13:47:00.000-07:00

Theres a new album to benefit the victims of the disaster in Japan called "Songs for Japan" offered by Itunes for only 9.99! Really good music for a really good cause!

Karen Lee binding our book for Japan

2011-04-08T08:49:00.000-07:00

Karen Lee is a Book Binding Goddess!

2011-04-01T17:19:00.001-07:00

Karen Lee bound our Painted Book today, For Japan. It is so beautiful, we had a collective swoon as she completed the finishing touches. Pictures coming soon!

Relief for Japan

2011-03-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

HELLO EVERYONE ,

Here's just a reminder about our fundraising idea for Japan, in case you missed it. We are creating a book compiled of student work in the hopes that we can raffle it off to the public, with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross's relief effort in Japan. Ticket prices have yet to be determined but figures tossed around were $5-10. Each student will be responsible for one 11" X 17" folio, (4 spaces to draw on, back and front). Imagery is entirely up to you; don't feel pressured to fill all 4 spaces by yourself as you are allowed to work with a friend, (just be sure to credit where credit is due).

This should be good, you guys (and ladies - if you're feeling liberated)! Make beautiful things and take joy in the fact that your contribution will make a difference in the world. Tell your friends! More updates will be posted soon.

- Sarah

Great Website!

2011-03-17T14:26:00.000-07:00

Hi all! I found a great bookbinding tutorial. There are lots of pictures and it's really easy to follow:

http://www.davethedesigner.net/booktut/index.html

2011-03-04T11:33:00.001-08:00

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Book of Faults

2011-02-20T14:21:00.000-08:00

Painted Book by Deborah Boardman. Book of Faults (Some of Mine Some of Yours), 2010 contains images of paintings in her studio and personal faults of her own and those of others contributed to the project. Part of her 2010 exhibition A Porous Space at the Gahlberg Gallery, College of Dupage