all things bookart
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Single Sheet Book on Jan 10th, 2014
As always just before Christmas there was a lot going on and I was not going to make a Christmas card. I had skipped the year before and since my Chinese New Year card is coming at the beginning of the year it’s OK to skip Christmas. Then I found myself sitting at home, carving […]
Posted in Allgemein, Letterpress on Dec 8th, 2013
I finished the print. Deadline was today. After finishing the print I went home. Skipped the box-making. Just a little too tired. The print turnt out to be in pastel colors. The color palette being purple/blue. The paper is Thai Mulberry, unbleached, which gives the light ‘yellow’ tone to the overall piece. I kept thinking […]
Posted in Allgemein, Letterpress on Dec 6th, 2013
I finished carving the block for the horse – only some minor adjustments are left. Now it’s time for the background. A reduction cut, I envision some rolling hills in the hour of dusk. Finished the first and second run. I started to print in a very pale yellow but changed it to a very […]
Posted in Allgemein, Letterpress on Nov 21st, 2013
keep carving! made some progress yesterday
Posted in Allgemein, Letterpress on Nov 20th, 2013
Still working on the ‘Year of the Horse’ – carving away, will cut paper later today and hopefully start printing tomorrow. It’s raining in the City so no fun riding my bike to get to the different places I have to get to… here is a new picture – and yes the last picture was […]
Posted in Allgemein, Letterpress on Nov 18th, 2013
It’s early to work on the Year of the Horse, but it is late for the edition I need to have this piece ready for. Fortunately the deadline was extended. That means I gained another week. I need to deliver an edition of 30 by December 5th. I have known about this since last year. […]
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions, Flag Book, Letterpress on Oct 28th, 2013
I received a letter from the Public Library this week letting me know that my book ‘A Sun that Rises’ has been awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in the Artist Book category in the Library’s 2013 Art of the Book show. ‘A sun that rises’ is part of the ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street project’. The Library’s website is showing […]
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Oct 22nd, 2013
… still working on ‘Looking for Matthew’. It has not been easy for me to continue working on this project. Of course there are always those excuses with ‘all the other deadlines’ but then… if I really wanted and if this had a deadline I would have had finished it long time ago. Six of […]
Posted in Accordion Book, Bookart, Exhibitions, Flag Book, Letterpress on Sep 16th, 2013
This last week I received a letter in the mail from the Monroe County Library, Rochester, New York. On July 26th was the deadline to apply for ‘The Art of the Book’ exhibition. Both of my entries have been accepted into the show. ‘Year of the Dragon’ and ‘A Sun that Rises’ will be on display […]
Posted in Letterpress on Sep 10th, 2013
Was working at Painted Tongue Studios in the afternoon – the late day’s sunlight illuminated the Heidelberg. So pretty!