The first time I used gesso was with what I then still called bloodsong. I don’t remember clearly but I don’t think I bought it especially for this project; I don’t remember using it for anything else, though. Before I tried it, I thought gesso was essentially white acrylic paint. What I bought to try […]
Category archives: Review
My Water Brushes
In the past weeks I have been working a lot with water brushes, and now just love them. My first water brush was a Sakura Koi with a no. 2 nib, bought in May last year. My thought was that it would be a good thing to take for outside journalling. At first I only […]
A Book Swap and a Literature List for November and December
I am currently organizing a book swap over on Jackie’s Book Arts Forum. You need to be a member to participate, but you are welcome to sign up and immediately join the swapping fun. – Just two more days until sign-ups are closed, so hurry and take a look here. Unfortunately I didn’t have much […]
Literature List June to Mid November
This used to be a monthly feature. I hope it will be again in the not so far future. I hardly bought any books in almost half a year. Well, you can guess the reasons: While packing books into cardboard boxes, shifting cardboard boxes around, unpacking cardboard boxes, throwing out a lot of books to […]
February’s Literature List
Febuary’s list is a little late because I wanted to actually look at the books I bought this last month before writing about them. When I wrote last month’s list I couldn’t say anything yet about “print workshop” by Christine Schmidt which, it turns out, is now one my favorite books about printing and stamping, […]