Sep 23
My sister wants to do an art journal exchange with her friend, so I started binding some watercolor paper into signatures. I got some books on bookbinding, so I started reading them to pick up pointers. Previously, I had just been doing everything by looking at books and puzzling out how they were made. What …
Aug 26
This is my latest page in the art journal I’m sharing with my sister. I used copies of the notes I took at Clarion for the background, and the brown paper are tea-stained scraps of two short stories I wrote. The title of the piece is Rewriting: An Armful of Tomatoes. My analogy is that …
Aug 20
My sister and I have been working on a pair of Art Journals for over a year now. I made some 140lb watercolor signatures, and we each created our own covers. Then we’ve taken turns mailing the books back and forth to each other, so every other page is by the other person. Here’s the …
Aug 12
Here’s what Jeremy and I did this weekend. We installed a tile floor in the master bath. When we first moved in, there was stained beige carpet in the bathroom that was so icky that I didn’t want to step on it. The walls had beige-and-blue print wallpaper, and the bathroom vanity was original to …
