Lately I've been reading
Ehon: The Artist And the Book in Japan by Roger Keyes, a book that takes a deep look at the New York Public Library's
Spencer Collection. This gorgeous book was recommended to me by gallery owner Beth Cullom during a discussion about artist's books and I'm so glad she turned me on to it. Check out the spread above. That's a woodblock print based on an ink drawing. I find it so beautiful.
In spite of the fact that I'll never be able to measure up to that degree of beauty and simplicity, I'm beginning to plan for a possible artist's book. It will be a while before I get to it, as I have several more prints to make in the Pilgrim Series, but true to form I already have a working title:
Love Letters From Home.
4 comments:
That's a truly wonderful print.
I remember traveling through a snowy, misty landscape in Italy many years ago.
I thought it would make a lovely print: dark, black trees in the foreground, receding in value till they and the mountains were lost in the fog.
I've never seen it done 'till now. But this is so much better than my conception.There is an immediacy to those grays that looks so fresh and amazingly like an ink drawing .
Thank you for posting it... and for all YOUR work as well!
That's a truly wonderful print.
I remember traveling through a snowy, misty landscape in Italy many years ago.
I thought it would make a lovely print: dark, black trees in the foreground, receding in value till they and the mountains were lost in the fog.
I've never seen it done 'till now. But this is so much better than my conception.There is an immediacy to those grays that looks so fresh and amazingly like an ink drawing .
Thank you for posting it... and for all YOUR work as well!
I spent quite a while devouring the images from the plum tree book the image came from after you posted the link on Twitter. Truly amazing work. The carving looks so much like brush strokes!
Have fun planning the book!
absolutely gorgeous, love the atmospheric quality, it that makes sense!
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