Trout Days

I've lots of chased/repoussed copper and sterling fish. 

Trout and otherwise that I have been meaning to complete.

This year I got sidetracked by a road construction map.

I did, however, experiment with the dullest of the fish.

Now, Mary of Crossroads Coffeehouse will be

appropriately adorned for Trout Days.

This, the third of the Aluminum cuff Bracelets,

may also be part of the Trout Days Adornments.

Letterpress NOTEBOOKS!

I'm assembling the notebooks

inbetween my efforts to ready for the Fall Art Tour

which starts TOMORROW!.

The 3-4 weeks of nasty poison ivy set me WAY back.

BUT! I'm busy getting done what I wanted to get done,

and will be STILL getting things done, and demonstrating HOW 

all this weekend during the Fall Art Tour...

the notebooks, the linoleum block carving, the rocket rings,

the whiteline woodblock printmaking...

and then I discovered how to make those frames out of aluminum flashing,

and a little while ago I figured a great way to make card hangers of simple wire....

it doesn't stop

I can't help it

I art.

Thank-you! Flying Rabbit Press for helping me with the printing,

teaching me about presentation, and assembly, and simply taking care of me

because I tend to jump into projects without considering all the supporting factors.

Thank-you1 Mark of Spring Printing in Spring Green, Wisconsin 

for the stapler instructions

Thank-you! Mary D'Alton & Eric Ferguson of Convivio

for the encouragement to LetterPress.

Fall Art Tour . . . 2013

Fall Art Tour!
October 18, 19, 20...2013 and coming up fast.
I'm #19!

Right now, today, this drawing table is the scene of linoleum block proof printing,
the making of frames for some of these prints,
the drawing up of my Grant winning Rocket Ring project,
and my favorite place for whiteline woodblock printing.

I cut blocks for letterpressed Wedding Invitations and all the collateral pieces
which peaked my interest in this printing process,
so I kept cutting, which will result in some small notebooks, and cards....
just to see what they would look like.
You'll see them too,
and the wedding invitation set...
and their similarity to White Line woodblock printmaking...
and how it all fits together for me.



The nine Red Herrings will all be present in force
and are ready for new homes,
along with some arting I rarely get out, but know it's time to move on, so I'll grit my teeth and release them.

I'm still determined to get the entire studio concrete floor stained, but for the moment I'm preoccupied with other curiosities.