It has finally started, my 16 week long novel writing course with Deborah Bailey at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio. Yesterday was the first session, and I can feel my mind buzzing. I hope I’ll indeed finish that book of which I have bits in my head since summer 2018 when I got a high fever […]
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The ill effects of age. And: New Print
The twins usually come home from school starving, so we pretty much eat tea immediately when they are back. Since I didn’t have anything at home for them today, I was going to buy something from the supermarket. It is pretty close, and I usually walk there. So about half an hour before I had […]
Journals – and a Yudu machine
I finished a first journal today, the one you can see in the photo above. I already listed it on Etsy, and realized that I have a lot of tidying up to do on Etsy as well. Then I tested new (Chinese) thread. It is probably waxed linen, although at some part of the description […]
Play with your digital printer: How to print on tissue paper and fabric
Sometime you want to print on paper that is not stiff enough to be fed through your printer: for example on tissue paper. For example when you want to make a large scroll using thin paper. Or to later use the image in a collage. In the photo above you see a detail of my […]
Printmaker’s Block, Litho and Ink Experiments, and Twine Trials
Still no progress with my print to enter into the show. I am suffering from a lesser known but just as severe form of writer’s block: printmaker’s block. In interviews with artist’s the question of how they overcome the blank paper and lack of ideas is often asked. Arrogant as I can sometimes be, I […]