There Are Spiders In The Jungle Book, Altered Book Carving art nouveau The book has an Art

The book has an Art Nouveau cover but the illustrations are done in a Art Deco block style

All the illustrations on the inside of the book are from the book itself

hand painted with the words  Be More Punk

But this only came to me as I was carving the piece for me the illustrations just worked and it also can represent the good old fashioned horror movies of the damsel in distress and she need to be rescued

I always find old medical books fascinating and sometime outrageous at the out of date information and terms

There Are Spiders In The Jungle Book, Altered Book Carving art nouveau The book has an ArtThere are spiders in The Jungle Book, Book Carving by Echo Mines Studio. When this book came to the studio it has quite literally fallen apart, the stitching had come away and the fabric cover was coming away. It gave me the feeling of being in a shed full of cobwebs and eaten by snails. The book has been cleaned and given lots of TLC to save it from the bin. I have a book of spiders that I have wanted to use for a while and this idea came into being,