Apr 10
I started out with a gesso resist technique, using a wash of light brown and a stamped gesso design. Honestly I can’t remember how it looked, except that I made the mistake of thinking I’d draw a picture on the background and use it as a springboard for another design. There’s a school of thought …
Mar 28
 Jeremy had asked me to try to make a drum for him, and I said I’d give it a shot. It’s not an easy project. Open bodied clays are easier for large projects, but they have a hollow sound rather than a ringing sound, which isn’t what he wanted. If I coil-built it, I …
Jan 22
This is the fourth of a series of four books I did simultaneously in which I used the same rainbow tie-dye fabric as a base. For this book, there wasn’t any green and hardly any blue in the piece of cloth I had, which I liked very much. The front cover and the back are …
Jan 04
This is the first of a series of four books I made all using the same base material. The base material was a piece of thin tie-dyed cotton that had been part of my daughter’s skirt before it got too ripped to repair. This cover worked really well because thin cotton adhered to 20lb paper …
