5.31.12_macaroon day

5.30.12_circle Rs

5.29.12_what mouse?

My cat had this guilty look on her face. I had to use that.

5.28.12_memorial day

5.27.12_peppers have vitamin C

More veggies (or fruits) with LetterMpress.

5.26.12_Jesus and tomatoes coming soon

A trip to the farmer's market reminded me of an old Kate Campbell tune named, you guessed it, "Jesus and tomatoes coming soon".

5.25.12_Os in the dark

5.24.12_oxymoron is an oxymoron

5.23.12_finger-knit e

Tonight was spent drinking beer and finger-knitting at Jackalope Brewery. I decided my knit piece would make a good, lowercase e.

5.22.12_the big R

5.21.12_happy accident

This came from a printing error on a project sheet for my students. I scanned in the misprinted page and enlarged the word "typography". Now that's what I call a happy accident.

5.20.12_sunday

Created the background texture for my website, which is in the works. Letters are letterpress type, stamped and scanned.

5.19.12_exclamation!

5.18.12_T is for teamwork

5.17.12_O&O

5.16.12_R walking Es

For the last few years, I have been exploring design with letterpress type looking at type as shape, form, and texture, not as words. It's been an intuitive, materials-related process. Today I discovered that Dutch designer H. N. Werkman had been doing the same thing in the 1920s. Seeing his work has inspired me to be more proactive in my exploratory designs with type.

5.15.12_html dreamin'

5.14.12_meet you at 55 east main street

5.13.12_five senses

5.12.12_one two three

5.11.12_i heart barnabas collins

Johnny Depp as Barnabas, that is. Saw Dark Shadows today, the new Tim Burton film. Weird and wonderful, just as it should be, so is today's art.

5.10.12_bird on a wire

Had to break my six word rule for this one but I've always been fascinated with birds on wires. The background was one of my breyer rolling textures. The birds had been created for a painting.

5.9.12_the sport of brayer cleaning

I liked the look of the ink on newspaper.

5.8.12_thanks for the wild things

In honor of the passing of the great storyteller, Maurice Sendak.

5.7.12_the cost of bottled water

Playing with type on different planes.

5.6.12_e is for an ebony egg

Mixture of letterpress type I own and LetterMpress type. Background created using a brayer.

5.5.12_nashville is fabulous music

Inspired by the kick-off of Musician's Corner in Centennial Park today, I also wanted to play with type in perspective.

5.4.12_the tree of life

5.3.12_why are we born without knee caps?

One of life's little mysteries.

5.2.12_no more evil

5.1.12_mother and child reunion painting

At my daughter's request, here is a painting (3' x 3') that I created in 2008 based upon the mother and child reunion concept.