Donnasue Jacobi
Photography, book arts, cards and paper gifts
209.754.9507
2179 Huberty Court, San Andreas
www.paws4art.com
Donnasue Jacobi is a photographer, book artist and printmaker. She specializes in handmade journals, sketchbooks, photo albums, greeting cards, and artists' books. I teach a range of traditional bookbinding forms crafted with traditional and digital photos, recycled materials or embellished with painting and stamping techniques for kids and adults. Classes can be small groups in your own home. Accepts commissions for single or small editions.
In nature, nothing exists in isolation. I express the impact nature has on me by conveying a mood through photography. The finest images, the ones that stir my soul, combine documentation of natural things with a sense of what they mean to me. I paint with both my camera and traditional paint brushes to experience the joy of being in the moment with my subjects. The process I use to create photographs is by traditional silver gelatin printing in a darkroom. I then paint on the photos with a heavy pigmented oil paint with various brushes, cotton swabs and q-tips. Sometimes an oil pencil is blended in for finer details of subjects like the fur on a dog’s face.
The real pleasure of book arts in all of its forms is to invite the audience to touch, feel, read, and enjoy holding a piece of art that is not only functional, but has beauty and meaning to the reader or writer. Journals are traditionally made with blank pages, but some contain words or pictures for inspiration to the book owner/writer.
In nature, nothing exists in isolation. I express the impact nature has on me by conveying a mood through photography. The finest images, the ones that stir my soul, combine documentation of natural things with a sense of what they mean to me. I paint with both my camera and traditional paint brushes to experience the joy of being in the moment with my subjects. The process I use to create photographs is by traditional silver gelatin printing in a darkroom. I then paint on the photos with a heavy pigmented oil paint with various brushes, cotton swabs and q-tips. Sometimes an oil pencil is blended in for finer details of subjects like the fur on a dog’s face.
The real pleasure of book arts in all of its forms is to invite the audience to touch, feel, read, and enjoy holding a piece of art that is not only functional, but has beauty and meaning to the reader or writer. Journals are traditionally made with blank pages, but some contain words or pictures for inspiration to the book owner/writer.
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