Tag: printmaking
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Morning glory print
My art process sometimes feels like a children’s book. Specifically, it feels like a recreation of If you give a mouse a cookie. If I want to make a decorative relief print of morning glories, I must carve the wood matrix. If I want the right blue, I must mix some colors. These colors are […]
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DIY digression: letterpress
The Firecracker Press sold me on the sheer excellence of letterpress art. If you’re ever in St. Louis, check them out for good design, poetry readings, edible printed tortillas, and people who know a lot about the history of typography. Most of us can’t afford to reinforce our floors to accommodate ridiculously heavy space hogs. […]
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Four months of work
Correspondence art: and a scrap/accordion book to document it 1) Proust’s madeleines 2) Honkers 3) pictures of the pink/purple seal (designed with feedback from mail art #1) 4) bees 5) luggage tags 6) a book to document the project Opiate of the Masses the triptych about seductive things (with a […]
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Correspondence art, Round 2
I heard this on a recent walk. Our fall colors tend to be modest, but we see a lot of Canadian geese thanks to a local wildlife sanctuary and many rice fields. I had all sorts of complicated notions for how to incorporate my favorite symbol of fall into this round of cards. What about […]
Colleen Wampole 