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Studio notes : : 2 January 2010
Ilustrations : Last autumn, my friends Tamara Reynolds and Zora O'neill published their cookbook Forking Fantastic. I did some illustrations for them, two of which appear below. Check out their website here and buy the book!
How to cut an onion.
How to make your own lamb-roasting pit.
Art and environment : Working recently on some photo-collages with text. This is part of a series of pieces that explore the landscape.
River: a walk on the beach at Hell Gate
There's a fine stretch of beach along the East River at Astoria Park. It's not properly accessible; but if you're adventurous, you can jump the seawall and walk by the water. The beach is dirty and degraded, but there's an arc of sand surrounded by trees, with driftwood in abundance. The sticks I picked up were scanned in sections on my flat-bed scanner and assembled in photoshop. Text, written freely with a brush, was scanned and composed with the collage in InDesign.
The glass beach
A second walk by the river at Hell Gate took me to a beach made entirely of glass.
What the tree sees
Twenty photographs document the leafing-out of a tree at the end of 33rd Street. The texts describe events each day on the street.
News
The next Annual Juried Issue of Letter Arts Review is in preparation, and is due to be published in March 2010. The deadline for this year's juried issue will be in August. More details soon.
Workshop schedule for spring : I will be offering my introduction to calligraphy workshop twice this spring, as well as a workshop on the Carolingian Hand. Check out the course descriptions at the Society of Scribes website.
Dates:
Fine Writing:
an introduction to the art of calligraphy.
First session: Jan 30 and Feb 6
Second session: March 20 and 27
The Carolingian Hand
April 24 and 25.