Watercolor detail from a handmade book I’m working on. Quote done with leftover watercolor from the book. The lettering lost a lot in the tweaking process, but I don’t have time to go back and fix it.
Oscar Wilde on Art
This quotations was inspired by the image displayed with Alex Savakis’ interview with Martha Ericson.
The lettering looked like such fun, I channeled my inner 8-year-old and used a multi-colored gel pen. Halfway through I wished was writing on black paper, and later — voila! through the miracle of Photoshop — I had been.
From this weekend’s Big Sky Scribes workshop
A page this weekend’s workshop — Montana Prairie Journaling — in Billings, Montana, taught by Jocelyn Curry. The workshop was a lot of fun. I hadn’t done any sketching in quite some time. I bought a Winsor-Newton Cotman watercolor kit for the occasion, and enjoyed using it.
In workshops, I’m a slow worker (but not so in my own studio, for some reason), so my case was completely undecorated at the end of the workshop, but I did get all the sheets inside done.
Tolkien on Love of Learning
In honor of Tolkien Week.
Baudelaire on Design
This is a typeface I designed a couple of years ago. It was designed very badly, I might add — so badly, in fact, that I pretty much had to kern every single pair of letters to get it to look halfway decent. And I missed kerning the BJE in “subject”, evidently.
Here is a scan of the Zig-markered original lettering that I used to make the typeface. Here’s the typographic poster I blogged originally, using this typeface when it was just completed.
I don’t think Baudelaire would approve this interpretation of his words 🙂
Santayana on Life
Arthur Balfour on Religion
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Herman Hesse on Beginnings
For my Jewish friends in honor of Rosh Hoshanah, which begins this evening.
I’m experimenting with square pastels as a broad-edge writing instrument.
Book arts in Eugene, Oregon
Lee Kirk of The Prints & The Paper recently posted on the Book-Arts-L a Flickr set of photos of the annual exhibition of work by members of the North Redwoods Book Arts Guild, shown at Eureka Books in California. I recognize two book artists from book swaps I hosted in the late ’90s: Margaret Beech (her book is shown here) and Peggy Marrs. To paraphrase Reggie Ezell, haven’t they grown!
Elbert Hubbard on Discourse
