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New Art Quilt: Rhymes with Fray
In mid-October, I drifted in and out of sleep early one morning and an image came to mind: a red, white, and blue quilt that would call up thoughts of an American flag, but would push the boundaries of...
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NaNoWriMo: Writing Week 4
Day 22: I started postponing my walk, I realized, because then I would have to write. Like shooting the messenger, but in this case the messenger brings relief. We're coming into the home stretch, but...
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Dye Experiments with Ultraviolet and Brazil Nut
The weather is getting colder, and it isn't conducive to ice-dyeing outside, so I am working with some of the other techniques, particularly tie-dyeing with thread. I tried out the Ultraviolet color,...
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More than a Blank Page (Learning from NaNoWriMo)
A friend and reader asked, "Do you ever have blocked days over the metaphorical, blank white page?" After I received the email, perhaps coincidentally, we watched a great program, featuring graphic...
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Paintings, Prints & Sculptures: Noguchi and Hasegawa at Asian Art Museum
A friend and I had been talking about this show for weeks, and we happily got to see the exhibition, Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan three days before it closed....
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Star 82 Review Winter 7.4 Is Live
It's that time again! The next issue of Star 82 Review, the online and print magazine I founded, design, and publish, is available. In our twenty-eighth issue we have playful art and writing, the...
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Postcards and a Few More Little Gifts at nevermindtheart
I'm a postcard person. I like them. I buy them. I write them. I also have a stash of postage stamps, and enjoy matching up stamps with the themes of my message or the image on the card. So, what to do...
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Cats and Birds Letterpress Note Cards
I was working on a book project and had to ink up the press to print a single page(!) I had missed somehow, so I decided to piggyback a card project with the page. But, of course, I had to print some...
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Hello Onion! Embroidery: Halves
What we do for art.I had an impulse to draw an onion. I've sliced—what—a hundred onions, a thousand onions in my life? Say 2 a week x 52 weeks x 30 years equals about three thousand onions! And still I...
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What? More Coptic Journals at nevermindtheart for 2020?
Wrapping up 2019, I just wanted to play with color and sew something. Plus, someone I know just bought five of the Coptic journals that were up at nevermindtheart on Etsy for gifts (thank you!), so it...
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Continuing and Restarting
Happy New Year!Nothing profound here.Just carrying on.Sunset out the front window, 2019Â Sunrise out the back window, 2020Â The sun came up again, hooray!Always more to do.Wishing you clarity in the new...
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Not Yet Nest: New Book Art in a Box for the New Year
It started with the paper. I had purchased some eco-printed botanical paper from Velma Bolyard at the Codex Book Fair, and was so delighted with it I made a box for a friend and a miniature Linked...
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Wavelength: New Art Quilt
In progress or put on the back burner for many months now, the quilt I knew would be called "Wavelength" is finally done. I'm not sure why it kept stalling out—other quilts and projects were completed...
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What Happens in Between
In between larger projects, I like to keep my hands moving. Correction, I must keep my hands moving. It is a way to think and experiment with art ideas when the stakes are low. A couple of hours here...
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When Do Artists Need Social Media?
I'm not against social media. But I not completely for it. If you've read any of my previous posts you know I am interested in balance. Where is this coming from? A friend told me about a student who...
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Paintings and Metaphors: Sylvia Fein
You would think I would find it natural when someone says that a work of art is like a poem, but it took me until a recent visit to the Berkeley Art Museum to fully understand what that might mean. I...
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Book Art Catalogues from never mind the press
I like exhibition catalogues as documents of an artist, a time, and a place. When I've seen a show a catalogue functions as a memory jog, reminder of what inspired me. If I wasn't able to see the...
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What We Call Ourselves
It's interesting how we use language to communicate and hope the person with whom we are talking understands what we mean when we use certain words. Each word has its literal meaning, what it denotes...
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Book Art Writing Coach
I miss teaching. I do. I particularly miss working with each student individually, trying to figure out how they could make the work they wanted to make and say what they wanted to say. In their own...
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Covering a Two-Piece Box with Single Sheets
Making boxes is satisfying. They are a fun way to experiment with color as well. Larger boxes can use a variety of strips and rectangles of book cloth or decorative paper. Small boxes can be covered on...
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