This is how Sky started a new sketchbook

Sky Nash is one amazing girl, actually my best online friend from the top of my wanna-meet list. She’s currently based in London studying a BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design. I’m talking with her almost every day and she sent me these three exclusive previews of how she started a new sketchbook. Pretty awesome. Visit her blog sky-n.blogspot.com for some more work and fresh updates.

By the way this is the hundredth post on Die without Art and I’m giving a little but special respect to Sky. Love!

Sep 21 by Danijel

Showing my art with webcam is not going well

During the yesterday’s video call with my dear Sky Nash, a web camera really got angry on me when I showed my art and made the stupid pixels of it. We tried turning off the web cam a few times and it worked properly until the moment I showed my art – pixels again!

Maybe Sky’s MacBook don’t like my shitty laptop or my art is too strong for this poor little web camera – who knows? Very interesting case with no explanation. Whatever, after 2 hours of talking, some silence and tweeting, I’m very happy to have a friend like she.

By the way, after three months of super awesome blogging, meeting new creative people and featuring the best of them on Die without Art, this is my 60th post over here. Yay! Thank you all for reading, sharing and helping me.

Creative workshops from the last post will be starting tomorrow morning, can’t wait. I’m gonna sleep well tonight because I saw my friends on the opening ceremony after one long year. That’s cute, especially the hugs. The kids are amazing, so stay tuned for some photos and impressions.

Apr 17 by Danijel

New book art from Sky, exclusively!

We have met generous Sky Nash two months ago and she’s back again with new creative stuff. Her book art and totally unique style always goes forward, over and over. Go Sky! Featuring book art in this article is very special because she decided to publish it exclusively on Die without Art. Thank you.

Up there we got two collagraphs. That’s a printmaking process in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate such as cardboard or wood. Last work on the right hand side is just left over ink, which is just as interesting as the collagraph.

I didn’t notice till after I’d printed quite a few, that the shape looks like a sea horse!

No worries, I’m sure Sky will bring us new creative works soon, so stay tuned here. She’s working really hard on improving her skills. I’m thinking of hiring Sky to make a cover for my future book. Will see.

Check out her blog at sky-n.blogspot.com and follow her on Twitter, she’s pretty.

Mar 23 by Danijel

Sky Nash, young book artist in making

Sky Nash is an artist from Birmingham currently based in London, studying a BA (Hons) Book arts and design. She started the degree in September and she’s constantly learning new things.

I choose it so that I could carry on being an illustrator and learn something practical at the same time.

Enjoy the rest of this article and see what 20 years old female artist can do.

After making some improvements on her original design, she printed on book cloth and end paper. Look at those hardback characters, awesome.

This was an experiment with book structure, trying to take away some of the normality in books.

Sky wanted to experiment more with the paper here, white paper feels a bit lifeless sometimes, she spent a lot of time covering the paper in oil and tea staining it, which made all of the pages even the cover semi transparent.

Sky is such a friendly minded, follow her on Twitter (@skynash). Over and above you should read her blog at sky-n.blogspot.com.

I hope she will share her new works with you, a Die without Art visitor. Subscribe here.

Jan 26 by Danijel