The painters arrive tomorrow to finish the great house painting project. They will be painting my office, the DH’s office, and my studio. I am working out of a little rolling cart on the kitchen counter. Severely limited in terms of materials and tools. The House of Mythical Creatures is on hold for the week. It’s …
Category Archives: books
W.I.P. fishy-fishy flag book
Playing catch-up while away from home. First up, a book that is slowly taking shape. It combines a format (flag book), a material (watercolor washes) and a bit of doggerel that wriggled into my head (and sketchbook) a couple of years ago. The format is the flag book binding. I made a goofy test version using a …
New Work in the Gallery.
The final images for the House of Mythical Creatures are up in the collage gallery.
Shoes
There’s an magazine called Antenna, that showcases “street wear” Something that, as a middle aged white lady, I know little or nothing about. However, the magazine is a treasure trove of images of things (shoes, sweatshirts, toothbrushes(?)) laid out against a white background. Each issue has several pages of — shoes. Some of which were cut out …
An exhibition of books in Oaxaca
Each time I am in Oaxaca I stop into the Casa De La Ciudad. There is always something interesting in the little sala to the right of the entrance. When I was last there (September 2008) it was the exhibition ‑Los Libres, Los Viajes, y El Tiempo (Books, Travels, and Time — roughly) The problem of how …
Purple Book
I seem to be on a roll here with the purple stuff. This is a quick book binding project. The text block was purchased from Paper Source. It comes with cover boards but without a spine board. Japanese paper and book cloth. I like this long format for guest books or albums.
One Day Book — (K) Kicks
…coming soon… it’ sitting in the press getting flat. Meanwhile here are the graphics for the covers of “(K) Kicks” The book pretty much sucks — it’s a one day after all. But I like the graphics.
Kindle 2 — New Gadget Post
It has arrived. On, of course, one of my busy must-be-out-of-the-house-by-10 days. So it languished on the front porch for 6 hours… I’ll save you the unboxing post. You can have a look here at Engadget’s unboxing. I must say that Amazon has taken a lot of care with the packaging. A very nice experience. (I do …