Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

Birgit Nass

An Unwritten Book by Fiona Watson (wildgoosechase)

Botanica by Natalie Stopka

This artist book holds a collection of 12 eco prints, made on one late summer day in the Catskill Mountains. Each image is made only from the dye inherent to the plant. Gathered from the garden and foraged from the fields, these plant prints are the portrait of a place and time. Because some of the colorants in each image are not lightfast, they will gradually fade over time, leaving only the permanent dyes. The artist book is bound in naturally dyed and printed silk joined with a herringbone stitch.

Evergreen by Jill Bergman

Edition of 5,11.75 x 7.25 x 4.25 inches 

This book has samples of needles and bark, images, statistics, and a few lines of poetry for each of seven different Colorado evergreen trees. The prints are hand colored solarplate etchings framed with brass strips. The tree samples are covered with mylar and held in place with stained wood.  The pages are made of 5 stained pine boards sewn onto leather straps with linen thread. 

sosuperawesome:

Felted Journals by galafilc

DIY: Floral Sketchbook Cover (by thesheerstories)

cabinporn:

From our library:

Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass

Life in the woods invites a keener awareness in all of us and over decades of research and adventure, Harold Gatty elevated this awareness to an art, assembling what is easily the most exhaustive and engaging book ever written on wilderness pathfinding.

From the shape of anthills, to the color of clouds, to the habits of sea birds, Gatty’s methods of navigation are diverse and ingenious, each one a tiny reminder of how clearly the natural world speaks to us, if we’re willing to listen.

DIY Botanical Press (by abeautifulmess)

Inspired by botanical prints and natural history illustrations, documenting your environment of plants, flowers and leaves becomes a personal catalog of your backyard. Nature presses are perfect for all seasons, but we’re partial to autumn because it’s the time of year when color fires through the countryside and gives you a different impression each day as winter takes over.

Scrapbooking Inspiration 

ianbrooks:

Carved Leaf Arts by Lorenzo Duran Silvan

Inspired by the patterns in leaves left by very hungry caterpillars, Lorenzo collects the fallen foliage from his backyard and sketches designs on them before meticulously cutting them out with a pointy object, taking anywhere from a week on each design to two months.

Artist: Website (via: Daily Mail / Faith is Torment)