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That's (Book-Related) Entertainment
I don't know about you, but I am feeling the need for some entertainment right about now. We have a million options, granted, but I'd like to share some of my favorite book-related videos. They've been...
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Spirituality & Printing in Tibet
Making art has always felt spiritual to me, as if it were a religion. But there is a place in Tibet, Derge Parkhang (founded in 1729), where the art and craft are inseparable from the Tibetan Buddhist...
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Star 82 Review 1.1 Is Here!
Happy Spring! The first issue of Star 82 Review, the art and literary online and print magazine is on the website and available for purchase, should you so desire to hold one in your hands (yes!). Each...
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Library in a Mall
Just off of Highway 101 in Gonzales, California, we drove into a shopping center in search of a sandwich. As we parked, we were surprised to find, tucked between an auto parts store and a nail salon:...
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Common Tropes to Avoid
You've read the guidelines. You've taken a look at the magazine. (They always say "read the magazine for a good idea of the kind of work we accept.") But you are confused. You think your work is just...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
I've been working on some drawings of trees to carve into linoleum blocks lately. I used to print out my photos, then draw from the printed copy, but have recently discovered (duh!) that I can work...
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Reduction Print: Linoleum Block Becomes a Magnolia Branch
Some people call them "kamikaze" prints. Once you carve them, they're gone. Reduction prints: one linoleum block becomes the site of many colors. Print, carve, print, carve. I happen to love layering...
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Remnants (Blocks & Print)
I finished six reduction prints for my tree book and was left with the remnants of the linoleum blocks. (Background is painted paper with faux woodgrain.)It could be a sad thing to see the bits that...
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Found Paper Cover for Journal
The Crossed-Structure Binding, created by Carmencho Arregui, is a binding that employs only sewing for structure and stitching for structure and decoration. This post is an overview; the detailed...
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Poem In Your Pocket Day 2013
Happy National Poetry Month! I wrote about it last year (all April, in fact), but this year I've discovered (a little late) the challenge of NaPoWriMo. It seems fitting that if November is National...
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Mapping the Route from Book to Book
Clarice Lispector's short story, "The Smallest Woman in the World," begins with a French explorer who finds a race of tiny people, but as he hears of even tinier people, he goes further into the...
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Tree: A New Artist Book from never mind the press
The pieces are put together. A few copies are bound. Those linocuts you saw in this post have a home in a new book called Tree. It is is bound in midnight blue Japanese book cloth with a wraparound...
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I Fell in Love with a Book by Shaun Tan
I fell in love with a book again. I know. It happens a lot. But this time I mean it. It always occurs when you are not looking for it. In this case, I went to the famed Fantastic Comics store in...
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Squeak Carnwath in Conversation with Renee Bott
Since I don't make too many flat prints, I have never really considered applying for membership in the California Society of Printmakers, but I was more than happy to be invited by CSP's president and...
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A Journal with Colored Paper, Colored Thread
I finished teaching my last class of the semester, and what did I do to relax? I immediately made yet another journal I don't need. But a few new details. Basically, it is the Multiple Signature with...
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A Recipe for an Artist's Book
At Codex a few months ago, I visited Julie Chen's booth and she told me about a collaborative project with Barb Tetenbaum: a deck of Artist's Book Ideation Cards. Shortly thereafter, she curated a show...
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Writing Like Rocks, Writing Like Water
I used to think that my story or poem was like a rock; once I wrote it, it was fixed and permanent. I was resistant to comments. If someone said, "I'm not sure I understand this part," I would shrug....
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Growing a Writer
In the previous post, I concluded by writing, "As long as the comments are offered by someone who cares, the writer can continue to grow." An anonymous reader called me out for using the word "cares."...
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Bound & Unbound: Mendocino Exhibit 2013
My bookworks were invited to a show in Mendocino, and I was invited to give a talk there as well. Janet Self organizes art events at Odd Fellows, an open and light-filled, two-story wooden building up...
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Jane Austen and Looking for Mrs. Darcy
Please do not throw your teacups at me; I was not a Jane Austen fan until recently. Friends were stumped by this, but I had spent most of my reading life with the modern language of 20th century...
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