Received nice news from Denver Botanic Gardens – my drawing ‘Achnatherum robustum’ will be included in their publication Index Seminum. I started the drawing during the seed and microscopy class. A few weeks and many hours later it was finished. I’ll pick up the drawing today and post a picture soon.
Archive for February, 2009
Drawing Published!
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Root Leaf Flower & Seed
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Finished Root Leaf Flower & Seed over the weekend, here’s the pic of the binding. Paste paper made by myself.
Root Leaf Flower & Seed
Proof of Spring
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009I stayed home from work today – slept poorly last night and I feel a cold coming on. Today is quite a bit warmer that it has been. It seems like it’s been a long cold dreary February. I found traces of spring but had to look hard for a few of them.
Rudbeckia of some kind
Tulip sp.
Sedum
Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
Root, Leaf, Flower & Seed
Sunday, February 15th, 2009“From root to leaf and flower to seed,may all that we have be all that we need.”So goes my favorite Pagan chant. I believe it’s from a book on Yule, but I could be mistaken. I was inspired to make a series of drawings of roots, leafs, flowers and seeds. I’d been working on it all summer (’o8) and finally finished it.
Here are pics of the drawings and picture of the book will appear shortly. The binding is a drum leaf binding, invented and refined by Tim Ely – a marvelous, simple and adaptable technique which allows the facing pages to open flat.
Petroselinum crispum, graphite on bristol
Asclepia speciosa, graphite on bristol
Campsis radican ‘Flava’, graphite on bristol
Parthenocissus quinquefolia ‘Virginia Creeper’, graphite on bristol
Cornus sericea ‘Red Osier Dogwood’, graphite on bristol
Resurrecting Sparkly Rock
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Haven’t posted for quite some time. Have been busy with botanical illustration classes at Denver Botanic Gardens and drawing classes at Art Student League of Denver . I’ve had break since about November and classes resume next week.
I’ve wanted to make some changes for a long time now – combine the old sparklyrock.com and this blog. It’ll be easier than I thought. I’ll be moving the blog here at Wordpress to a hosted site (running Wordpress) and use the old Sparkly Rock site as the template. The new site will be the blog as well as gallery for my books, boxes, drawings and prints. The title will change also to Sparkly Rock Press and Bindery.
More about the press in the near future.
First Prints from New Press
Sunday, February 1st, 2009Here are a few prints from collagraph plates, signed and numbered. I tossed the first 6 prints – haven’t mastered the skill of consistent inking and wiping. So many variables, pressure, paper, soaking time, etc. There is as much skill required in printing as there is in making the plate.
Oak Ladder, collagraph, 1/4, 2009
Itane Est, 1/3 collagraph, 2009, collagraph
Undergrowth Moon, 2009 collagraph