February 1, 2023
A Year of Rabbits
January 27, 2023
Words of the Month - So Many Frogs!
[Pictures: Dancing Frogs, wood block print by Tokuriki Tomichiro, 1950s (Image from Ukiyo-e.org);
Leap Frog Boys, woodcut by Leona Pierce, 1951 (Image from The Old Print Shop);
Magyar Hussar with frogs on his jacket, his belt, and his horse, wood block print after a drawing by Jost Amman, c. 1550 (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Bullfrog, collagraph by AEGN, 2012.]
January 23, 2023
Staples and Crayons
[Pictures: Octopuses, story by AEGN, January 1975;
Two Dogs, book by AEGN, April 1976;
Anne’s Fairy Tales, book by AEGN, July 1977;
A Book of Poems, book by AEGN, fall 1978;
The Moon Pearl, book by AEGN, spring 1979;
Bound books by AEGN from 1983-1985.]
January 18, 2023
Moon-Veggies
[Pictures: Pumpkins used as dwellings to secure against wild beasts, engraving by Filippo Morghen, after 1778 (Image from The Met);
The crest on which we were was high and commanded a wide prospect of the crater landscape, illustration by E.Hering from The Cosmopolitan, March 1901 (Image from Google Books).]
January 11, 2023
Alien Cities
[Pictures: Toward the Sky, wood block print by Yoshida Toshi, 1965 (Image from Minneapolis Institute of Art);
City I and City II, rubber block prints by AEGN, 2019;
Martian Worm Village, color woodcut with stamp additions by Alan Shields, 1996 (Image from Kansas State Beach Museum of Art);
Symbiote City (Venusian Medusae), rubber block print by AEGN, 2020;
El diálogo, wood engraving by Marcel Molina, 2014 (Image from Universidad de Puerto Rico);
Kraken, rubber block print by PGN, 2015.]
January 6, 2023
What's New in the New Year
[Pictures: Steam-Powered Insectivore, rubber block print by AEGN, 2022;
Trevithick’s Locomotive, wood engraving (by H.W. Benno?) from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century by Edward W. Byrn, 1900 (Image from Internet Archive);
Black and rufous elephant shrew, photo by AEGN, 2009;
A Place at the Table, rubber block print from two blocks, AEGN, 2022.]
December 28, 2022
Words of the Month - Finding the Present Tense
[Pictures: The Back of the Clock, rubber block print by AEGN, 2011;
Pickle Magic, woodblock print by Lisa Toth, 2012 (Image from LisaToth).]
December 23, 2022
More Merry Christmas!
[Pictures: Weihnacht, wood block print by Emma Schlangenhausen, 1933 (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Virgin, woodcut by Rufino Tamayo, 1928-30 (Image from Davis Museum);
Nativity scene, woodcut by Fritz Eichenberg, 20th century (Image from Davis Museum);
The Madonna and Child between Saints Ulrich and Afra, hand colored woodcut, Augsburg school, c. 1490s (Image from Davis Museum).]
December 19, 2022
Illuminated Creatures
[Pictures: Menorah, folio 226v from Rothschild Pentateuch, 1296 (Image from Getty Museum);
Dragon, folio 44v from Mahzor festival prayer book, 1450-1474 (Image from British Library);
Assorted creatures, folio 294 from Duke of Sussex’s German Pentateuch, 1300-1325 (Image from British Library);
Marginalia, folio 5v from Northern French Pentateuch, 1277-1286 (Image from British Museum);
Illumination, folio 106r from Festival Prayer book, 1300-1329 (Image from British Museum);
Illumination, folio 130 from Rothschild Pentateuch, 1296 (Image from Getty Museum).]