Posts Tagged ‘artists books’

Summer Intensive at Wolfe Editions

Posted on: June 24th, 2011
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Letterpress, bookbinding, and woodcuts, oh my!

I just spent an incredible, wonderful, and yes, intense week at David Wolfe’s studio learning all kinds of new skills with David Wolfe and Crystal Cawley. They are both great teachers, as well as fabulous artists; and my fellow students were a complete delight with whom to share the week. I spent most of the week working on a book project: using traditional lead type, hand setting a poem that my friend Janet wrote for me many, many years ago. Once all the type was set, I printed the poem, line by line on some already prepared prints of mine; and finally bound it all together in a book. What an accomplishment!

You can see little snapshots of most of the book by clicking here.

Buttonhole Binding

Posted on: May 1st, 2011
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A great way to start the month of May…

Yesterday I went to a workshop to learn how to make a Buttonhole book. Today, in order to make sure I didn’t forget all that I learned yesterday, I folded a series of prints that had not yet been attacked with scissors (or worse), and bound them up in a Buttonhole book. On the left is the prototype that I did yesterday (with a little letterpress red house on the cover), on the right another view of today’s adventure in the studio.

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