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eller ([personal profile] eller) wrote2025-01-25 01:45 pm

Questionable Bookbinding skills...

...abused to make a watercolor box (well, if we're being generous with that term, anyway) from corrugated board, wire, duct tape, and a piece of string. Clearly, it's a masterpiece - even the "button" (generous with the term) is simply wire wrapped in duct tape! XDDD Duct tape is my friend!

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But then, it's not supposed to be pretty. It's just that I had this dot palette (again, generous with the term: it's just a postcard-sized piece of paper with colors on it. Why use "real" palettes when there's a primitive solution that works just fine?) of Michael Harding watercolors lying around, and I wanted a way to store them so they don't catch dust. (They are excellent paints, but of the kind that re-wet very easily, so when they catch air humidity, the surface is always a tiny bit sticky. Leaving them on my desk without some kind of cover is not an option.) Here, you also have the unique chance (haha) to see how tidy I am while doing art.

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I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with the cover of the box, though. I could leave it in "cardboard color", but also, I could draw something on it. Maybe with a silver acrylic pen included to match the duct tape? After all, color coordination is very important. ;) Any suggestions what to draw?

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