Category: General

Thanks to everyone who entered my Pi day giveaway! The winner of my artist’s book Pi is tulibri, who writes a book-ish blog in Germany.
April is National Poetry Month so keep your eye out for another giveway next month.

Here’s to my favorite irrational number! Go here for a recipe for a Pi-Tini with 3.14 ounces of vodka that get shaken 3.14 times with a bit of vermouth and poured over Pi ice.
According to wikipedia the first Pi Day celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces and then eating fruit pies.
Two more things to celebrate: the Pi minute today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m. And, as Pi is approximately 22/7, Pi Approximation Day on July 22.

Annually since 2004, the Bookmarks: Infiltrating the Library System project has distributed bookmarks made by book artists to help promote their work and to get the public involved with artists’ books. Participants make an edition of 100 signed and numbered bookmarks to give away. The bookmarks are distributed to galleries, bookstores and libraries around the world.
The project is organized by the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of West England in Bristol, and they’ve got great documentation — with a gallery of all the bookmarks — on their website. Appropriately I have it bookmarked and have been watching the project for several years.
The bookmark to the left is by Mary Marsh.

Whew! the wood type prints I made last week are now all titled, signed, numbered, photographed and listed on my website (and my shops on Etsy and Supermarket). Sometimes it feels like all that bookkeeping takes longer than actually making the prints! The titles are, from left to right: Make the Numbers Dance (this is the one for the letterpress swap), Countless, The Generostiy of Numbers, And Q and And Q Too. The first 3 are 8×10, the other 2 are 5×7. To see larger images, click on the thumbnails.

Last November I stumbled upon Elizabeth Perry’s blog of daily drawings. They struck me immediately as visual haiku — capturing a small moment in Elizabeth’s day. At the same time, my husband and i had just brought home our 2 new kittens, who left a bit of themselves everywhere — a button abandoned after a round of kitty soccer, a wet paw print on the sliding glass door into the backyard, a little head poking out of the curtains of the front window… I thought these might be easy enough for me to draw and be a good practice to complement my haiku writing. So off and on since December I’ve been slowly filling a notebook with line drawings.
Reading Elizabeth’s blog has helped keep me drawing — reminding me to look around at the little things that make up my day (and are easy enough to draw that someone might recognize the object if they peeked in my book!) That’s one of Elizabeth’s drawings above — probably my favorite so far. It’s from December 23rd and called feet up; she says about it “Wrapping done? No…I’ll get to it, though, really. No, really. After I’m done listening to this song.” Recently she completed her 1500th drawing and has a nice post about that anniversary and her drawings.