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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Happy New Year!

It is 2013 and I am still shocked! However, there are some exciting new things going on for me at Spring Leaf Press. To begin, I have opened an Etsy shop where you will find some things I post about here and some things that are completely different. I dabble in all sorts of things and now some of them will be available for purchase. You can visit the shop by clicking on any of the images on the right side of this page or search for "SpringLeafPress" on Etsy.com. The other new development is I now have a Facebook…

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Winter Inspiration

A snow day can be an opportunity for an unexpected restful day, or it can be a helpfully productive day. Today, I am lucky to feel like being productive. With the city and the university shut down, it feels like I get a special pocket of time to catch up on a few things around the studio. I find that the seasons can be helpful if thought of in relation to productivity: the spring is a great time to begin new endeavors, the summer a time to maintain them, the fall is a time to shed anything hanging around too…

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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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Paper Craft. Repair. Blocks. Nearly Everything.

A few things are spread throughout my studio this week. Contrary to being distracting, having a few stations to work at keeps me from being idle too long, especially on days that I feel restless. Many projects = no excuse for a lack of productivity. PAPER CRAFT. This past March-April when I had the privilege to go to Japan, I picked up this paper craft model of Toji, a five-story pagoda in Kyoto. Paper craft projects consist of several pages of punch out parts that are then glued together to create an object, creature, or in this case an architectural…

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