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Hand made book, mixed mediaRelated content
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Very Necronomicony!!!!! A Blasphemous tome to be sure, Excellent!
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Haha, thanks, maybe it's just old stories?
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Thank you 
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Fantastic work. The textures are amazing. I wants one!
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Thanks, I love textures, patinas, rust and wear, great to look at and really fun to paint
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Oh man...I'll just repeat general sentiment and say that I would LOVE to have one of these. Awesome.
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Thank you, so glad you like it
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Outstanding!
This is very cool. I like them all but this one is the Best.
I'm working on a Necronomicon cover for a friend
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cool, post a pic when you get it done
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This is the start. [link]
I need to do a base before I combine the pieces.
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You learnt how to do this from some ancient, hyper intelligent life form didn't you?
I have not seen anything as awesome as this for a while now. No, seriously!
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Thanks so much, this is my favorite book from the series as well, it's cast from real fossils, my favorite kind. I love this kind of painting, all the aging and rust and patinas... so fun to paint
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OMG I have two real fossils as well so I can understand! Mine are from the Himalayas, and they're actually sea shell fossils! (Can you beat that?? My aunt, who works in the army that's on the border explained that it proves that India was once an island which smashed into the Asian landmass 
And omg I would give anything for your creativity XD
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oh yeah, the crash between them drove up the Himalayas... I saw a great animation of the movements of the plates over the years from Pangea to now... so interesting.
hehe, I think creativity can be built like any muscle, just takes practice and desire, you can do it
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and TIME! Don't forget TIME! Which I don't have
And cool, you know about the Himalayas
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I know it's hard to find time, but it's always possible
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My major is in english, and I'm currently doing a diploma in Chinese, lol.
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Ha, I wouldn't think english would help speak chinese much
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No, well XDDD
They're both excellent languages in their own respect! Chinese characters are beautiful and logical - not just random drawings. I enjoy character practice a lot, haha
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too ... many .... characters! my poor brain can hardly handle our 26 
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It is! Knowing you I'd bet you'd love to work with some of that intricate stuff!
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speechless... Congratulations!
Is one of the most beautiful books ever see!
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Thank you very much
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I just have to inquire further into the method behind making this.
I completely understand the fossil bits - I do a lot of resin casting for my tabletop gaming hobby, so I get what you did as far as casting the ammolites en masse like that. What I'm a wee bit baffled by is the actual 'metal' bits that are encasing the fossils.
A few questions, then:
Is the metal actually, well, metal? Or some other material sculpted overtop, and then painted to resemble metal? I can't imagine working metal into such shapes and still having it rest flush against the ammolite shells, where there's no gap between the metal and the shells. If I were to try and do this, I imagine I'd simply make a 'sheet' of shell-fossils, then sculpt the metal bits overtop in sculpey or something, and cast the whole cover as one solid piece afterwards, but I'm not sure if this is how you approached it
If it -is- actually metal, how on earth do you work it in such a fashion?
If not, what do you use to sculpt as far as medium?
Thanks in advance, I'm just intensely curious as I'd like to make something similar for my fiance.
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well, I cast a few fossils, then make a bunch of them in different sizes... laid them out in a sheet and used plaster and dirt to form fill in. I made s silicone mold of that, cut it into an 8.5 X 11 inch sheet, then cast a clean one in silicone. Then I sculpted the "metal" parts and molded it again. Everything is paint layers. I use metal paints that have real metal in them so I can patina them with chemicals to make it look very real. Hope that helps
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This is fabulous!!!!
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Thanks! those are my favorite fossils, I'm making a leather stamp with that pattern and I found some great black fossils that i can cut in half and make into a fun wrist watch
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That sounds really great!
I must watch you!
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* wants to touch it * The texture looks amazing!!!!
I'm sure that it feels as awesome as it looks!
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I cast real fossils so it has a very cool feel
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Nice! * tries to touch through the screen * DAMMIT
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I just love your books!
Wish i had a blank sketchbook like this.
Anyway keep up the great work!
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Thanks, glad you like them
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obviously the fossils are amazing (i was reading some other comments >.>
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Thanks, that's my favorite book, casting the fossils was fun but I loved sculpting the organic metal around them
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you wouldn't happen to be selling it would you?
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I'm afraid not, tho I have some notebooks in that style in the works. Maybe by the summer I will have some ready to sell
Thanks, glad you like the stuff
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beautiful work. are the fossils real? or a mold? they look real..
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I have two perfect fossil Ammonites, I cast them many times, then carved them down to diffrent size fossils. Then I made one master mold of all of them togeather plastered togeather. The painting was very fun, matching the original colors as best I could
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My birthday is coming up in May... but youยดll never find me in this neck of the woods!
Spike.
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what neck of the woods is that?
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Hemmed Forest, Norddursland, North Jutland, Denmark!
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Thanks, it's my favorite
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what is the cover made of?
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I cast real fossils and cast these out of resin. They are just painted to look like rock
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resin? does it harden like epoxy? this sounds like a VERY fun process. I do fossil hunting sometimes in the Hill Country and around Dallas. There are ammonites galore, and shark teeth and other cool stuff. This has real possibilities.
Plus, I can make stuff out of clay or plaster as a mold.
hmmmmmm.
:: gears in head spinning. Sparks coming out of ears. Harsh grinding sound due to no caffeine lubricating the gears ::
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