I am playing with all sorts of printing methods at the moment and wanted to make a simple concertina book to practice a bit more simple bookbinding.
Here are a couple of plates cut from card.
Some print trials with different weights of ink .
And simply folded. More experiments and cover possibilities to come
Sinuous, slippery and lovely shapes.
pencil sketches 5.5x 8 inch sketchbook
Eel do have teeth….awesome !
I am completely fascinated by these slippery, mysterious creatures and their extraordinary life cycle. They are one of the subjects in my very long, 2015, to-do list. I have drawn some eels before, long ago to illustrate Philip Gross’ poem “Sargasso”. I had been thinking about another interpretation of the poem for a small book.
They were common around the Fens in the past, and after a steep decline in the 1980’s I read their numbers are recovering. I ate smoked eel in Amsterdam. It’s a good nutritious food. More on eels as food, as glass eels, elvers, as mighty travellers and as strange, twisty, dark and magical things to come.
