Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Long Past Time to Update!

It's difficult to believe that summer has just slid by, and updating this blog is embarrassingly overdue. I have been busy in the studio and in the classroom: both as a pupil and as an instructor! Let's see: About the time my friends were headed to Art & Soul in Virginia Beach, I had taken several days of classes with Beverly Seymour from B-Line Designs-too divine! I feel I can use truly retro words like that when you see the incredible book I made under her direction: "ladies'-going-to-church" gloves made into an exquisite book that just melts into a totally tactile experience in your hands...it feels like a prayer, no kidding! Of course, I have been on an antiquing tear buying up reasonably priced gloves in good shape in order to make many more of these wonderful books, which, by the way, are sewn with an exposed spine in the single needle Coptic stitch...too cool!

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Summer Sunday Art Musings

Mid-summer again, and I still am not an experienced blogger...but I am back to working in my studio and have too many ideas to fit them all into a working day format...how exciting is that!??? This week I have still been at the Piano Hinge Books (refreshing my mind about working with tree wrap for gypsy moth paper aided by Lumiere metallics (!)...intriguingly easy and so organic to the eye. I am working on a series of Buddha greeting cards (with a deadline). The weather here in the Blue Ridge has been a mixed bag of hot and humid and rain...great for indoor sports like studio time! I must get busy and download the photos from my camers so I can showcase a few of my week's endeavors...

Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Book

Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Book
Thank You Lisa at European Papers Columbus, Ohio

Abalone Button Piano Hinge Book

Abalone Button Piano Hinge Book
That Abalone Left Its' Shell 4 Art!

Bliss Girl

Bliss Girl
Transcendent Bliss Girl