Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Name Tags and Carl Rohrs workshop

I always loved the name tags that were given to me at workshops, usually made with care and thought by the makers.  Sometimes they are made by the instructor and sometimes made by a student.  I particularly like the ones that David Brookes makes.

This time I undertook the task for a Carl Rohr's workshop, Brush and Stilleto.  I am also the coordinator for the Friends of Calligraphy for this particular workshop.  He will be teaching the use of the brush in making his wonderful brush lettering and using the knife (stilleto) to cut out letterforms.

I cut out letterforms from black paper and placed them on sample papers from Flax and from old watercolor pieces.  I then put them in name tag holders.



Cut outs before placing on background paper....

unfinished (wait listed) and finished


The line up of class members...each different.

My cut out 'D'...all flat papers from Carl's workshop


Gia cutout with stripped paper backing...
Emma in high definition colors..green cut out on orange!!!
Carl's gift to me for organizing the workshop...wasn't I lucky?

Windows of Opportunity

I have been doing Gelli monoprinting.  I did some to make Chaos Cards for Friends of Calligraphy and had lots of scraps left.  I saw a recent post on the Gelli website about weaving the long scraps.  So I wove them.  I still had some small pieces left and had the idea to make cards and name them all Windows of Opportunity.  So each window is cut out of card stock and a scrap taped to the back and then another piece of paper to hide the back of the scraps.

Woven scraps

cut out windows

a few...

a few more

back of card
Chaos Card packets - not all Gelli prints, some are letterpress, hand stamping, watercolor, acrylic exercises and others.

Marin Museum Of Contemporary Art Altered Book Show

MMOCA has an annual Altered Book Show with around 150 entries.  I was fortunate to receive an Honorable Mention this year.
I have always been intrigued about how our minds can translate a portion of a letter and know what it is.  I used a discarded book of English verses and collaged them on small squares then placed portions of a Bodoni font that relected the letter in the verse.  I framed it with discarded book covers. I designed a new Hanko at the bottom right corner.  I called this piece Forms On My Mind.

Final piece with my red Hanko at the bottom corner.

Side view to see the 3 dimension using 7 different book covers to frame and support.
Got my handy drill out to put it all together...

The reverse side with the washers and screws and picture hanger.