Friday, January 25, 2008
New Book: Drawing On Walls
A new book of drawings and photographs: Drawing On Walls.
This book was unplanned — the way I've found much creative work hovers, and waits for the landing pad; the landing pad being the form that can contain and extend the idea. I had been taking photographs on runs without much intent. They just were interesting images — as photos they had a dynamic, graphical quality. I draw everyday and, when I chanced the combination, serendipity, that friend of optimism, rewarded the effort.
As usual, the book took much longer to produce than I thought it would. Sometimes I think you convince yourself, “Oh, this will be easy”, just to encourage yourself through the inevitable struggles ahead. I photographed using a good but not even “prosumer” camera: the Canon A620. They were processed in Adobe Lightroom, combined in Photoshop with the scanned in drawings, and reprocessed in Lightroom. Output to InDesign and thence to a PDF which was uploaded to a POD publisher (print on demand). Took about 6 revisions of the book to get things right.
Anyway, I'm proud of the book.
Here is a gallery of some reproductions from the book at PaintedMatter.
Here is a link at the publisher's site to see the general layout; images are lower resolution but you get a look at the Foreword. (Please be patient, their galleries take a bit of time to load.)
Here are all the books in the PaintedMatter bookstore.