another handmade book from late november.  This one was binded a lil different so the pages could remain individual instead of folded into folios.

- phil jasen

if you are curious of scale,  here it is,  take a regular piece of computer paper.  fold it in half along the horizon.  cut it.  then the two rectangles ya got, fold them in half and youre looking at a sample.  so these are 5.5″x4.25

- phil jasen

pdf of artist’s book – txt pix

Here is another book.  This one drawn in green ink.  Cleaner imagery, less punx, more hip.  Less d.i.y. zine, more clean design stuff.  Which kinda relates into its cover design even.  The stitching is hidden by being glued to a spine which is covered in paper.  some time ill get  a photo of these books all finished and update.

phil jasen

BOOKS.  Artist’s books, two drawn over last few days. The first, was drawn entirely on one day, November 17th, 2009.  the second, was done earlier over two days and has been bound to a paperback with rives bfk grey.  I’ll bind the Nov 17th book tomorrow probably.  Want them bound, but to keep a real d.i.y kinda punk feel to it, nothing too fancy.  The drawings inside both these books are raw and rough so ya gotta think of a binding that fits.  Folios made of india ink and micron pen drawings on crane’s archival thesis paper.

the images posted below and ones in the .pdf are emboldened for view on the computer screen, in real life and better quality scans they’re lighter and the bleed through on back pages isn’t so strong.

sample of first book, “untitled (Nov 17th, 2009)”   random assortment of drawings/doodles.  Viewable PDF of it here, NOV1709.

sample of second book, “Gud Fuk/Bad Fuk”

this one is gonna have lottsa nudes and naughty bits, so if that ain’t your thing skip it.  Viewable PDF of it here, fuk buk

- phil jasen

drawings executed simultaneously.  while looking at an object, reflection, or just while imagining, moved left and right hands simultaneously on separate pieces of paper to produce two like but different images.  if my right hand wasn’t making a mark at the time, my left wasn’t making the mark either.

right hand drawings tighter but also more iconic and stylized at times, while the left is less controlled and larger.

the cartoon like preceding drawings are quick doodles [right hand] which show the process by which the pair of simultaneous drawings originated.  their style and approach and degree of indifference to “high quality” are in effort to encourage these images be looked at with a level of fun and humor, not a search for deep meaning.

drawings on handmade 100% cotton rag paper.