“Opinions of a Philosopher”. It was sort of an accident for me to paint on books. I was painting on book pages for forever, and actually published a book titled “100 Portraits” in which I drew one hundred portraits on old book pages. At the time, I was drawing on books, records or anything else I could find at a thrift store. Eventually, I started drawing on the books themselves. I was going to do a project where I just drew on the covers of the books, and as I finished them I would stack them against the wall. It dawned on me that it might be a good idea to paint down the spines of the books instead of just on the covers. (Photo and caption by Mike Stilkey)
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