The Book Roadie

I'm out. Find me at thebookroadie.com, as on BlueSky, Tumblr, and YouTube (where I'm doing my Saturday livestream).

Did some color matching during today's livestream. I'm repairing an ancient paperback, and needed to color some Japanese paper to match the color of the cover. I use a palette knife to mix heavy body acrylic paint into a blob of methyl cellulose and fiddle around til it's close enough. I can't match perfectly because the spine part has a lot of UV damage lightening the cover. But I got a decent medium.
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Image description: a glass cutting board is sitting on my green cutting mat. On it are small globs of various colored paints and a smear of a middling tan. To the left is a white lidded box with the front cover, back cover, and spine of an old paperback. They're tan, plus there's a painting of a young woman on the front cover.