Friday, January 20, 2006

 

I should have continued my editing frenzy last night, but instead I started working on covers for "The Spectacle of Meat." I actually made covers a couple of months ago, but they're just too small. I broke rule number one: the size of the book should reflect the size of the text . . . whoops! I think I'm going to make the old covers (which are still lovely) . . . into limited edition card-broadside thingies.

But the new covers were to be entirely different. Whereas with the old ones I used a linoleum print of an anatomically correct heart and plenty of red-paint-gore, the new ones were to be kind of elegant and antiquey looking. My original plan of covering white cardstock with a gold-patterned vellum for the front cover didn't pan out because the vellum is too stiff and brittle to fold over the card, and if you try to glue it, it just soaks the vellum and the card, and bubbles. Ew.

So I settled for making the covers of red cardstock with large stickers made of the gold vellum set squarely on. I ran my trusty sticker machine out of sticker material last night, working through the permutations of this, though, so I will be out and about looking for more sticker stuff this weekend.

I may yet wind up with something completely different, however . . . that's just the way I work. Alack.

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