Month: November 2011
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Illuminated e-manuscript
This fall my alma mater asked me to illustrate the cover of its alumni magazine. Since the issue’s theme was the spectrum that books occupy these days (from hand-bound artist books to e-readers), it was right up my alley. As usual (see above, I’m nuts), everything is completely hand-drawn, including the magazine’s masthead. (Major thanks…
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Festive flock
Hot off the press and just in time for this year’s holiday season, I’m proud to present a mini flock of letterpress bird ornaments! Just like the larger prints in my Flock series, each one of these is printed from a hand-carved linoleum block. Then each was individually hand-painted with watercolor (which, I’m not afraid…
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Over the river and through the woods
The last of our guests will be arriving any minute, and then today will be complete. This year we have visitors who made a thousand-mile trek, bearing gifts of California wine and citrus—as well as callers just a short neighborhood stroll away, wrapped in scarves against the damp chill in the air. Each friend is…
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Signed, Sealed, Soapbox
It’s hard to ignore the news of protests, ahem, occupying the attention of cities around the world—of the many and diverse thousands of people unified under one simple, yet infinitely faceted mantra. As members of the, well, vast majority of folks without any real political or financial clout in the world, Jessica and I can…
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In print
Every three months my all-time favorite magazine, Uppercase, arrives in my mailbox, and productivity in the studio comes to a screeching halt while I drool over each gorgeous page. I’ve been a subscriber since almost the very beginning (if only I could get my paws on those first two sold-out issues!), and impossibly, every new…