In my drawing class, our current assignment is to make an artist’s book incorporating drawing. Oh sure, twist my arm! So to begin, I went shopping for some books to alter. I was looking for something small and intimate, with chipboard covers I can work into. I decided on some Little Golden Books.

I found [...]

I finally got to see some prints from the Pentax Spotmatic — and it seems to be working great. The image above is from the first roll of film I developed. I made the contact prints today, and scanned this from them. So, it’s really blown up and my scanner made it look all soft [...]

Where has the last month gone? Into sketching sessions at lunch, birdfeeder stakeouts, digging up the garden bed, riding the bus to work and home again, working my day job, thinking about going to school, taking notes on the garden, catching up at home after the work week.
At Beacon Hill Park, I’ve been visiting [...]

I did some drawing, scratchboard, and prints on Friday, and froggy here is my favorite of the series. Still working with the speedycut blocks, brayer, and cut-paper prints for simple shapes.
I’ve been working hard on my New Year’s mission to make a new recipe a week from the Rebar book. Since I posted about [...]

Working on: Christmas card prints. This is my first week after finishing up at the paper, and today was spent getting reacquainted with my home workspace, and trying to get ready for a renewed effort to build up some freelance design work.
Gary and I have been watching a lot of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares [...]

Have I told you about my dream client? He’s the husband of my wonderful friend-of-many-years, Lynne. Like Lynne, he’s a pediatrician, and he’s opening his own practice in the next couple of months. I received the most beautiful email from him describing what his practice was going to be like, how it would be different [...]