Artbecue

Artbecue

Posted by on Sep 15, 2011 in by hand | One Comment

We hosted an “artbecue” grilling + art play night with heidi and justin as game participants. There was papier-mâché happening, y’all. Damn straight and darn tootin’ with meats off the barby and beers as you oughta. Awesome. This here’s some Morning After snapshots. Ah, the glow.

Cloudgathering II

Cloudgathering II

Posted by on Sep 15, 2011 in by hand | No Comments

 

Small format boards

Small format boards

Posted by on Jul 2, 2011 in by hand | No Comments

recently we made little pieces to donate to Buy Art Not People. sarah’s: chris’s: Also see: Not For Sale

Letterpress: Starshaped Press

Letterpress: Starshaped Press

Posted by on Jun 29, 2011 in by hand, neighborhood, portraits | No Comments

thursdays mean letterpress, in my world. each week’s fourth day I make my winding way by foot or brown line L train or–too often running late–car to the bull dog lock building set beside metra traintracks in shabby-glamorous ravenswood industrial corridor. there inside one of several 1000-ft artist’s studios with great big warehouse windows printer, ...

Zen of bookbinding– a lesson in process

Zen of bookbinding– a lesson in process

Posted by on Jun 29, 2011 in by hand | No Comments

I’ve been coaching myself against exceeding frustration with the geologic pace I’ve set– it is in that spirit I herewith acknowledge the value of incremental progress, as well as all its interstitial creative project interruptions

Happy day to the dads!

Happy day to the dads!

Posted by on Jun 19, 2011 in by hand | No Comments

couple of new cards

felties

felties

Posted by on Dec 29, 2010 in by hand, photos | No Comments

Handmade Christmas gifts, premise and base patterning thanks to Aranzi Aronzo’s The Cute Book, inspiration borrowed from the lovely Miz Tammy K.

use-less

use-less

Posted by on Dec 13, 2010 in by hand, hybrid contraptions, photos | 2 Comments

all day long, while the snow came down and blew along with water from lake michigan across city roadways and chris wrangled for more sleepless hours on end the phone trees and data coordination of response teamwork, I sat, good for nothing, planted to the couch, watching episodes of joss whedon’s “dollhouse” on netflix, good ...

weekend play

weekend play

Posted by on Feb 8, 2010 in by hand, photos | No Comments

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the right way to start off a week

the right way to start off a week

Posted by on Oct 19, 2009 in by hand, hybrid contraptions, sathead | No Comments

after plenty of sleep (i.e. napful, easygoing, soul-spacious weekend), cellphone alarm starts playing jenny lewis at 6 a.m. hit hush, scritch puppy and fall back asleep. wake for good when it goes off again at 6:30. rise, throw on sweats and sneaks, and drag puppy and feller from bed, grumbly and rumpled for walk in ...