[Pictures: No. 2 Pencilion and No. 2 Yellow Pencilion, rubber block prints with pencil details by AEGN, 2023.]
December 1, 2023
No. 2 Pencilion
November 27, 2023
Too Busy - Delirium
November 22, 2023
Autumnal Block Prints
[Pictures: Autumn, color woodcut by Herschel C. Logan, 1924 (Image from Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art);
Sturdy Branches, Leafy Tops, woodcut by Nick Wroblewski (Image from NickWroblewski.com);
Late Autumn in Ichikawa, color woodblock print by Kawase Hasui, 1930 (Image from The Clark Museum);
Equinox, linocut print by William Hays (Image from artful home);
Pies, wood block print by Kari Percival (Image from KariPercival.com).]
November 17, 2023
A Jumble of Jabberwocks
Jabberwock (and Jubjub bird?), illustration by Kevin Hawkes from Imagine That! Poems of Never-Was selected by Prelutsky, 1998;
Jabberwock, illustration by Christopher Myers from Jabberwocky, 2007;
Jabberwock, illustration by Joel Stewart from Jabberwocky, 2003;
Jabberwocky, illustration by Eric Copeland from Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll, ed. E. Mendelson, 2000;
Jabberwock, Jubjub bird, and Bandersnatch, illustrations by Peter Newell from Through the Looking-Glass, 1902 (Images from Internet Archive);
Jabberwock, Jubjub bird, and Bandersnatch, illustrations by Charles Santore from Jabberwocky, 2020;
Jabberwock and rath, Doulton pottery by Mark V. Marshall, c. 1886 (Images from Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts).]
November 13, 2023
The Wonders of Cotton
[Pictures: four illustrations by Stephen Alcorn, from Cotton is Environmentally Friendly: Crane is Cotton, 1990.]
November 8, 2023
Mulligan's Mysterious Monsters
[Pictures: Rustler, linocut by Mark Mulligan;
Seafood, linocut by Mulligan;
Trailblazers , linocut by Mulligan;
Winter Dreaming, woodcut by Mulligan (All images from Mulligan’s web site Wheaten Press.)]
November 3, 2023
Finding Balance
[Picture: Tri-County Fair, wood engraving by William Phelps Cunningham, 1933 (Image from Beach Museum).]
October 30, 2023
Words of the Month - Ye Olde TH
[Pictures: Ye Olde Mixer-Upper, wood-cut by John Held Jr, 1935 (Image from AbeBooks);
Detail from The Book of Margery Kempe manuscript by Margery Kempe, 1436-48 (Image from The Margery Kempe Society);
Detail from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, printed by William Caxton, 1478 (Image from Worcester Cathedral);
The Book Printer, wood block print by Jost Amman from Panoplia omnium illiberalium, 1568 (Image from Internet Archive).]
October 25, 2023
Fantasy Bats
[Pictures: Bat border, wood engraving from Le Diable Amoureaux by J. Cazotte, 1845 (Image from Cornell University Library);
Shadow Picture of the Forms of the One Hundred Night Demons, woodblock print by Kawabe Kyōsai, 1867 (Image from Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Museum);
Miyamoto Musashi Slashing a Bat, woodblock print by Yoshitoshi, 1866-7 (Image from Fuji Arts);
Bats in the Fifth Act of the Chushingura, woodblock print by Yoshitoshi, 1882 (Image from Fuji Arts);
The Night Wanderer, wood block print from Simple Hans and other funny pictures and stories, 1854 (Image from British Library);
Where the Bee Sucks, wood engraving by John Gilbert from The Songs and Sonnets of Shakespeare, 1862 (Image from Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive);
Nycteris & Flederer’s Patent Mechanical Chiropterid (Model 3), rubber block print by AEGN, 2015 (now sold out).]