all things bookart
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Aug 28th, 2013
Headbands are glued on – next step: trimming the black BUGRA paper which I am using for endpapers. Same evening: measuring and cutting the recess for the book label. textblocks with trimmed endpapers – not glued on yet … looks so nice I had to take another one of the endpapers! measuring and cutting – […]
Posted in Bookart, Letterpress, Looking for Matthew on Aug 25th, 2013
Yesterday evening I was working on ‘Looking for Matthew’. The bound text-blocks are prepared to be cased in. I first glued Thai Mulberry paper on to the spine and then added tiny little headbands – I just love them! Sometimes I wonder who actually will see them once the book is done. How many people […]
Posted in Allgemein, Bookart, Exhibitions, Letterpress on Aug 24th, 2013
Yesterday I went with a friend of mine to check out three exhibitions here in the City – they are closing soon, so if you want to go you should go now… We met in the Public Library, Main Library on Larkin Street, Civic Center. On the 6th Floor you find the Skylight Gallery with […]
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 Letterpress on Mar 6th, 2013
The sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas. This is our latest addition to the letterpress printed cards Painted Tongue offers. More printing to come! We are super busy at the studio with card printing and custom orders.
Posted in Letterpress on Mar 2nd, 2013
Another day at Painted Tongue Press! Printing another note card. The Cosmos plant is in the family Asteraceae – commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family. It is such a beautiful flower. Printing it today reminded me of an early summer day, imagining a field of cosmos flowers swaying in the warm […]
Posted in Letterpress on Feb 27th, 2013
Last week I finished printing California Poppy at Painted Tongue Press. This is a two color card printed on the Heidelberg windmill. The green was printed by Hope, who is another letterpress printer printing away at Painted Tongue. I finished the card with orange – the butterfly is a double hit, first printed in green […]
Posted in Letterpress on Feb 23rd, 2013
The pictures I posted only show parts of the Heidelberg windmill – here are two of the whole bella machina ! In Germany the windmill is called Heidelberger Tiegel.
Posted in Letterpress on Feb 23rd, 2013
From 1996 to 1998 I studied at Fritz-Gabler Hotel Management School in Heidelberg, Germany. During those years I had no idea what a Heidelberg windmill is. And I would not have dreamed of ever even printing on one of those machines, which are made in Heidelberg, Germany. 11 years later – in 2009 – I started […]
Posted in Letterpress on Feb 6th, 2013
First a rainbow roll in blue as a background – it’s the year of the ‘water snake’ this year – and then the snake in black.