all things bookart
Posted in Allgemein, Exhibitions on Aug 18th, 2013
The Art Exhibit: Close to the Wind opened last Thursday, August 15th, at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. As a cultural contribution to the America’s Cup, ten German artists from the San Francisco Bay Area are showing their paintings, photographs and installations. It was a well visited opening and the show looks really nice. Thanks […]
Posted in Allgemein on Aug 8th, 2013
Around 7 p.m. after dinner I decided that I was motivated enough to start working on ‘Klabautermann’. Here is a picture of the little guy:
Posted in Allgemein on Aug 5th, 2013
Posted in Allgemein, Exhibitions, Letterpress on Aug 3rd, 2013
This art project is for the Goethe Institut San Francisco. The exhibition ‘Close to the Wind’ features ten German artists from the San Francisco Bay Area. Each of them was given a sail, 7.8 ft x 3.9 ft, to use as a blank canvas to turn into a work of art. Being a letterpress printer, […]
Posted in Allgemein, Exhibitions on Jul 31st, 2013
The pictures above show the process – first I letterpress printed the seagulls on a Vandercook machine. The next step was cutting out the prints to get an idea on how many I needed. I printed the birds in rainbow colors! How fun!! At home the trimming started: every little seagull was cut out with […]
Posted in Allgemein, Exhibitions on Jul 30th, 2013
not much yet – but the printing is done: a couple of hundred little seagulls. Size about 3 inch wide and 2 inch high…. check back tomorrow!
… boxes and boxes and boxes full of little, adorable, oh-so-cute peeps! A total of 479 (there was one missing in one box). What a find at my local Goodwill store!
Posted in Allgemein, Bookart, Exhibitions, Flag Book on Jul 2nd, 2013
The ‘Year of the Dragon’ flag-book will be on view at the Marin County Fair, starting this week. I don’t know if the book was selected for a prize. Once I find out I’ll let you know!