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COPTIC BOOK BINDING
I am learning how to bind a book using the coptic technique. My friend Elizabeth will be teaching a workshop at uac and we are trying some of the processes together beforehand. It was a bit awkward for me at first, but soon I got the hang of the sewing and enjoyed the...
WORK IN PROGRESS PART TWO
Using the glue base was a good idea, they did keep standing and it made it easier to drop them into the bottle... more to come.Buried on Hart Island November 1898Robert Kirschner age 35Cause of death: Illumination Gas at 206 Fifth Street, NYC, NYRobert Kirschner...
HE HAS MENTAL HABITS
He Has Mental Habitsmultiple gocco prints on wall paper in various sizesHere is how it went, Mary told me about Frank Gelett Burgess, so I looked at a book he created using old wall paper, it inspired me to do some kind of print. I told my friends I was looking for...
WORK IN PROGRESS PART ONE
Hart Island still haunts me. Today I am planning my next project about it. I found these HO scale figures in Denver. They have a bit of a problem standing, so I am experimenting with creating glue bases (that are supposed to dry clear). I am hoping I will be able to...
PLANCHETTE’S VAIN WARNING
close up of planchette's vain warning, fake cyanotype (inkjet on paper)green restaurant is having a ouija board contest. Good luck finding the requirements for applying on their website, but through some connections of Robrt's we secured the instructions.This is...
CANVAS PROJECT VOLUME 3: SQUISHY
It was hard to imagine a sweeter illustration than a jelly doughnut for squishy, my last word in the Art House Co-op Canvas Project. In my ever curious, research-oriented mind I discovered help in the great doughnut vs. cruller debates of the early 1940s.The New York...
CANVAS PROJECT VOLUME 3: BACKSLIDER
For the Art House Co-op Canvas Project, my second word was backslider, another rather interesting one. And one which I have not had occasion to use in a sentence, although, I do understand this one. "How do you illustrate backslider?" I pondered. Until I did some...
CANVAS PROJECT VOLUME 3: INCULCATE
The assignment from Art House Co-op:We're creating a visual encyclopedia where each artist is asked to visually interpret three words that are assigned to them randomly and were submitted by the Art House community onto 4x4 inch canvases. A visual encyclopedia book...
ART IN DENVER
Megan and Kyria at the art museumMy trip to Denver was filled with beautiful things to see. My family being the first. I took my granddaughter, Kyria, with me and we stayed at my daughter's (Megan) and son-in-law's (Chris) house for a few days.Our beginning adventure...
THE NAKED CITY
When I was a kid there was a TV show that I loved to watch with my dad. It was called the Naked City. Each week it brought you a glimpse of New York, in the format of a crime drama. But what I remember most about the show was the way in which you felt that at any...
THE HANKIE PROJECT
Julie Barratt wrote to say "The Hankie Project (has come down). Have had lots of people through to see the show and lots of fab comments in the visitor's book.""The show will go on to Grafton Regional Gallery in Jan. 2011 and am also following up other touring...
SHOWS
me at the Denver Art MuseumIn Denver, the Interior Markings show is up at the Abecedarian Gallery, with a big artists reception on Friday from 5-8 p.m., I am looking forward to meeting Alicia Bailey, the gallery director and some of the other book artists in the show....