May 25
With this book I started once again with calico pasted to typing paper. The page was a sheet from an old manuscript, but the text is not visible. I tried to do a second print from the tree monoprint, but it didn’t take very well. I used an onion bag to put some texture on, …
May 17
This is a sign I made for the reading at Wiscon that some fellow writers and I are going to do. I started with an old piece of matboard that I’d painted with several layers of acrylic. I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was …
May 12
I’ve learned the that easiest book cover material is thin cotton adhered to a typing-weight paper back. So for these three books, (Remember book, Strive book and Lotus-skeleton book) I started out with three different calico-weight scraps of cloth and glued them onto misprinted pages. This piece of cloth is pink and red, and it …
May 06
This one had something weird happen with the glaze that makes it look diseased. It has thin bubbles that break when you touch them, leaving ridges that cut like obsidian. If it had been a functional piece, I would have had to get rid of it, but as garden art it works fine.
Apr 30
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
