Rooster Transfer

While I have been working on a few relief pieces, I was looking into different ways to get my drawings on to the wood or linoleum block. I usually create a drawing to decide what will be carved and sometimes this is a fairly detailed sketch. My current image idea, a rooster, would not only take a long time to trace onto the block using transfer paper, but I also worried about losing some of the line quality during the tracing process. [you can click on all of the images to better see what is going on] (rooster drawing) I've…

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Fantasy and Nonsense

In July earlier this year, I submitted a binding to a juried exhibit hosted by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers. The book received second place in the exhibit and will be on display from September 7 to November 4 at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Due to great foresight, it will be on display during the Standards of Excellence Seminar, the annual meeting of the Guild of Book Workers (October 11-13). Fantasy and Nonsense is a book of James Whitcomb Riley poetry letterpress printed by Tryst Press. The…

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Undefined Lines

Undefined Lines is the result of the Guild of Book Workers Horizon exhibit competition. Entries could be any type of binding, artist book or other book project so long as it related to the theme "Horizon." It had been a more difficult topic for me to respond to than others in the past; the decision process was incredibly drawn out and the number of times I changed my mind about the design was a personal record. When I was contemplating the thought of "horizons" I eventually realized that I literally walk a horizon line nearly every day. Inspired by the…

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July: Paste Papers and Cloth

A special project in the timeline of the intellectual collaboration projects this year was July's.  We had the opportunity to collaborate in person! So for this special occasion, we decided to practice a technique instead of complete a book project. We chose to experiment with paste papers and paste cloth as it is a material that has many applications and one that I continue to come back to. Here are a few of the paste papers that were a result of our session. I tried to break out of what I normally do since the idea was to experiment...these still…

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Standards of Excellence in Boston

The Guild of Book Workers Standards of Excellence this year was held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers. We were conveniently located in the middle of Boston so there was a lot to see and eat. Needless to say it was easy to fill any spare minutes outside of the presentations and the vendor room. However, I will leave out our culinary tour of Boston's great seafood stops and focus on the book related content of the weekend. As we had driven from Bloomington (by way of Niagara Falls and Amherst) we made our way…

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