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: “YouTube version of a video work-in-progress of mine. I’m not sure exactly how this video will end up, but I’ve been putting a few fragments together since March this year. Need to join them together,…”
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: “YouTube version of a video work-in-progress of mine. I’m not sure exactly how this video will end up, but I’ve been putting a few fragments together since March this year. Need to join them together,…”
: “I can’t decide whether to keep pursuing the “mask” arc with my photography, or develop it into something else. I’d love to do both, but I have so little free time to do photoshoots, and only a…”
: “I’m slowly forming some plans for some artwork based around a few Lithuanian mythological characters: Medeina, Žemyna, Ežerinis, and Ragana. Lithuania wasn’t converted to christianity until much…”
: “I’ve written myself a list of art-related tasks to do before January 2nd - some involve creating artwork, but most involve planning artwork to be made in January, February, & March. I need 2-3 more…”
: “I have bruises on my wrist and stomach from printing lino prints all day - using that relief printing press for any protracted length of time is like a work-out with added violence. But I’ve successfully…”
: “…I’ve been doing boring-yet-necessary financial stuff to set myself up as a self-employed artist - most of which entails reading a lot of boring-and-long-winded explanations of financial jargon. I…”
: “Being the first draft for the penultimate chapter of the Book of the Erinyes: The extent of my research has expanded from the classical esoterica to gnostic epistles in any field. They inhabit the hinterlands…”
: “Earlier today I took more photographs of Tisiphone, the first of the three Furies — many thanks to Dawn for modelling again. I’ve got a couple of the photographs up in the artwork section already,…”
: “Last weekend I took the photographs of Megaera, the second of the three Furies — many thanks to Alice for modelling (again!). I managed to shoot 668 photos — it’s simply amazing how differently…”
: “Work on the letterpress side of the Book of the Erinyes is on temporary hiatus while I wait for the letterpress facilities of Brighton Independent Printmaking to re-open as Ink Spot Press in June. I’ve…”
: “I was lucky enough to be on a business trip to New York again last week, and I so had the opportunity to visit the Center for Book Arts. The Center is a great resource — they have a decent-sized Letterpress…”
: “Just a quick post to let you all know that I’ve been doing a few new lino prints and my first ever woodcut for the Book of the Erinyes. I'm hoping to do quite a few of these for the project, as I they…”
: “In early January I’m planning to print a number of Broadsides as related side-projects of the Book of the Erinyes. 1833 broadside about the execution of Captain Henry…”
: “As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to. The problem is that it doesn’t fit comfortably in any one area. It sits between art and…”
: “I’m making very good progress with the Letterpress part of the Book of the Erinyes at the moment — I’m managing to fit in 2 sessions of work at Brighton Independent Printmaking each week, and I’m…”
: “I thought I’d share a very short video I put together from some clips of me printing out a page of the Book of the Erinyes. At some point in the not-too-distant future I’ll put together something…”
: “Yesterday I spent the day in London doing a whistle-stop tour of a few exhibitions as background research for the Book of the Erinyes. Bookbinding at the V&A The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters,…”
: “I’ve been putting some hours into the Letterpress side of the Book of the Erinyes recently, and have made a fair bit of progress. Yesterday evening I managed to print out the text for the first section…”
: “One of the fashions of the “Gothic Revival” during the mid-1840s to 1860s was for “monastic” style bindings that imitated the Medieval wooden book covers. Rather than reproducing these in wood,…”
Read the rest of “Victorian Gothic Revival “Papier Mâché” Binding”…
: “One of the elements of the handmade Book of the Erinyes will be the use of marbled paper — sometimes on the outside cover, and sometimes on the endpapers/inside cover. As with all the parts of the book,…”