I don’t draw. Okay, I used to not draw. This was more painful to do than I expected, but also satisfying to have accomplished. A baby step, but still a step.
Obsessive Drawing
The drive to doodle: compulsive therapy.
I read this review in the New York Times (click the title of this post if you’ve subscribed to NYT online), and I want to head right on over to the American Folk Art Museum. Too bad I’m 1,110.39 miles away.
A few more images of the show are here at American Folk Art Museum’s website.
So small a thing
I seem to be making bookmarks lately. No matter. I am really enjoying the little 1″ square landscapes.
Spring Haiku — 1997
Spring Haiku — an artist book I made in spring 1997. Covers of handmade paper with turnip greens inclusions, over matboard; Arches Text Wove for text. Oriental paper hinges, painted, cut into 3x-wide strips. Handmade paints — pure pigments plus gum arabic plus (in the case of Alizarin Violet) titanium-coated mica flakes for sparkle. The washes brushed with methyl cellulose — to improve the surface for fine (that is to say, small) lettering. The lettering was done with a #5 Mitchell dip pen.
Size: 2 1/2″ x 2 5/8″.
Uploaded to test software. Both photos are thumbnails to larger photos.
"Depth"
Here’s an artist I discovered through Illustration Friday. I just love her colors, shapes, symbols … everything.
Illustration Friday
Each Friday, the folks at Illustration Friday website propose a theme for illustration. And for the past two weeks I’ve enjoyed clicking through the 150+ artists who each contribute by illustrating on the topic and then linking back to the theme page at Illustration Friday.
What a variety of responses! It’s fascinating to page through them all.
Illustration Friday: Depth
My first submission to Illustration Friday is an artist book I did nearly 4 years ago. Click on the thumbnail above for a larger look. The text, an anonymous quotation, reads: “Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and many accomplishments, owes the fact of his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
I used this same text in the broadside done last month and uploaded to this blog on August 20.
Pop-up Galleries
Robert Sabuda, a creative pop-up book artist, has put together an inspirational website all about pop-ups.
The gallery of international pop-ups by country and artist is still growing. Click on the link below each country flag; sometimes clicking on the flags themselves gets you a 404 error message.
Guild of Book Workers’ Exhibition
A little inspiration — Abecedarium: An Exhibit of Alphabet Books.
And a terrible tease. A single image of a book gives you less information about that book than a trailer does for its movie. But whatcha gonna do? short of shooting a movie of someone turning the pages of the book, or somehow expropriating the Turning the Page software the British Museum. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/digitisation1.html
Pretty wonderful software.
A single image of a book is still better than nothing at all. After all, I’ve got single images of hundreds of books at my website.
The dogs days of summer
It’s hot.