Firemen Carousel

I made this carousel from a Golden Book whose name I can't tell you: i pulled out the guts of the book to make books before I packed all my apartment into a storage box, and i didn't write down the name.
So I'll let you know sometime soon, as well as who the artist is. The illustrations are so wonderfully 70's. There's a few flares and some long hair. The book is a counting book (8 fire hoses, 7 cats, 6 hats, etc).
I cut the pictures out to make them more 3d, and then extended the art work with water colour pencils to make up the gaps.
having made 3 tunnel books and another carousel before, this was way easier: there's a real need to think in a different way to make it work. this one i was determined to not be too precious about - i figured if i made an error (which i did) i could cut the panel out and re-do it (which i did!).

For future reference: 

Each book is 14 x 12 cm

the pages are 12cm, 9cm, 7.5 cm (original dimensions from scuffy were 8 inches 7 inches 5 inches).

Remember to have a short tab at each end to attach to cover. 

When doing the tabs to complete the tab is attached to the front piece.  No need for slots on the front piece. 

Biennale Sydney highlights - Newtown

Headstones at the cemetery at St Stephen's Church in Newtown are being covered as part of the Sydney Biennale. Very ghostly.

And at night

So'me of the headstones' inscriptions are coming through (because people touch them? because they just do? who knows?)

Scuffy the Tugboat final

Scuffy has been in progress for a while.
Here he is completed.

Sydney Biennale: my pix

today MCA and AGNSW Biennale.
Here are my pics.

Stones

Love this.

Go Yinka!

Yinka Shonibare, MBE some vibrant and beautiful pieces.

Also this.


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Emperor's new clothes

This tunnel book is the third kind of gusset: one long strip with pieces holding each page.

So I've made all 3 types I learnt about at context art.

This is from a Golden Book of Hans Christian Andersen's Emperor's New Clothes. The illustrations are by Richard Waltz. Gorgeous colours.

Book measures 12 x 14 cm when closed.

The gusset is 44cm long (so it doesn't exceed the length of the arm). 

Every time I do one of these I learn something.

I imagine the fingers that protrude may over time bend or break off - will see what happens (it's possible that it won't be opened that frequently.

I put the leftover illustrations on the backs of the pages, just because I could and i didn't want to lose them. left the frames white (but I wanted to cover with dress pattern tissue: just didn't want to detract from the illustrations). 

The front "wardrobe" door is less elaborate than I envisioned, but it is an illustration from within the book (of 2 different walls which were almost the same). 

The user holds the beads / threads and lets the book drop to open it. 

these tunnel books are so deceptively simple (and more tricky to conceptualise than anything else).

The words on the front were supposed to be "new" on both sides, but a trick of the order of the beads makes it say "new men". Which isn't so bad. Serendipity works for me.