Jenny Dolfen
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Fore-edge painting
🕑 Added 2025-04-22 18:35:48 +0000 UTCMy daughter got me into fore-edge painting. 😳
She’s been gushing about print-edged editions in bookshops (and bemoaning the fact that 99% of them are Romantasy), tried some fore-edge painting with markers herself, and got me thinking about how to best do it. We got some clamps and felt, and well, I have every sort of paint in existence. Today, Jana got some of her least favourite books for us to ruin, and we set to work, with watercolours, liquid acrylics and gouache.
I can now say that gouache seems to be a good medium, and my eyes do better with it than I thought - I mostly paint with my eyes unfocused, which is fine for landscapes and doesn’t tax me as much. Of course, I thought I could use watercolour, and thought a watercolour landscape would be an easy thing to get into. It turned out that a gouache landscape was far from an easy thing for me to get into, but once I remembered that gouache has the Mother Of All Ugly Stages, it turns out I didn’t ruin "Kill the Queen" quite as badly as we thought.
So, I‘ll try some Tolkien or Sanderson next… maybe I‘ll even dare some faces. 😰
Comments
Amanda
That looks awesome!
Steph (coconutwaterbending)
What fun projects to try your hand at! I looove a sprayed edge (though not all are created equal). I share your daughter's laments over most of them going to romantasy!
