Binding Commitments Part 5 of 3

I have paused bookbinding, and commenced the cool season gardening. It's been cooler, stiller, and not blindingly sunny, and best of all the soil is not bone dry, just the perfect condition for weeding. Although I might have missed the autumn seeds/bulbs planting for next spring's flowers as we had frost this week. I must, though, go outside earlier because it's too dark by 5.30 these days, and in about a month it will be 4.30.

I had an odd hour and a half the other day, too late to go outside to do what I had intended to do, (I have a somewhat rigid multi-page mental list for the garden, and I couldn't make up my mind about which among the myriad of other tasks to do instead,) so I made a collage book, one in which I will be adding predominantly collages. 

A4 saved notebook cover. I made another one in A5 previously. I'm going to use lots of saturated colors in this one, I think. 

Back of the front cover, or half of the endpaper. Rumour has it I flipped Mr Rothko's painting upside down; well, it looks better this way. 

Roughly in the middle of the book, I must harmonize with M Matisse. I might cut paper for this one. 

The very last page and a peek at the right half of end-endpaper. I want to make this book not only full of saturated colours, but I'll be focusing on harmony across the whole book. 

From the front; 160g mixed media paper and pages from a variety of old calendars. 

Top view; you can see I have very few pages, but in different formation. 

It's not the first time I made a collage book with a specific aesthetic intentions, but I found these extremely difficult to fill in later. I have two sitting under the coffee table and I look at them often enough, but can't seem to finish them; cone is over 15 years old. It's probably not a good idea to make the book and not start working in it right away, the same as making warps long in advance and weaving them years later. I won't rush this one, but will try hard to make it as pretty as possible, even if there's no meaning behind anything I do, just the look. I think this is an interesting, new to me, way to work. 

I have one more saved notebook cover which will become a different kind of collage book. And that's the end of bookbinding material I prepared for the Mary Ann Moss online course, and the end of this "series" as it were. I'll certainly do more amateur bookbinding because it's so much fun, but I also need to start working inside these. And the gazillion other single-signature pamphlet type I made.   

Also a small weaving project is emerging, so there will be weaving contents here, for a change!