[Picture: Big Catch, rubber block print by AEGN, 2022.]
June 24, 2022
Who Is Catching Whom?
June 20, 2022
Juneteenth
[Pictures: Magic People, linoleum cut by Elizabeth Catlett, 2002 (Image from Cleveland Museum of Art);
Innervisions 2 (Unfurling), relief block print by Deborah Grayson (Image from GraysonStudios.com);
Liberty, linoleum block print by Peter Paul Piech, 1971 (Image from V&A).]
June 15, 2022
Fantasy Botany
[Pictures: Mandrake, wood block print from Ortus sanitatis by Johann Prüss, 1499 (Image from Internet Archive);
My Lady’s Garden, color wood block print by Walter Crane from The Baby’s Opera, printed by Edmund Evans, c 1877 (Image from International Children’s Digital Library);
Mary, Mary, illustration (possibly by Howard Del?) from Mother Goose’s Melodies for her Little Goslings, 1881 (Image from International Children’s Digital Library);
Two plants from Voynich Manuscript, c 1401-1599 (Image from Yale University Library);
Illustrations from Codex Seraphinianus, by Luigi Serafini, 1981;
Illustration from The Land of Neverbelieve by Norman Messenger, 2012.]
June 10, 2022
Shining the Light through Block Prints
[Pictures: Stained glass from Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, 1932 (photos by AEGN, 2022);
Der Formschneider, wood block print by Jost Amman from Eygentliche Beschreibung aller Stände auff Erden, 1568 (Image from Yale University Library);
Theatrum, wood block print from Comoediae by Terence, 1493 (Image from National Gallery of Art);
Title Page, wood block print from Libre de consolat tractant dels fets maritims, 1502 (Image from Sotheby’s);
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).]
June 6, 2022
Picasso Poster
[Picture: Exposition Vallauris, linocut by Pablo Picasso, printed by Imprimetie Arnéra, 1956 (Image from AEGN, at the National Gallery of Scotland).]
June 1, 2022
Eisenman's People
May 27, 2022
Portal Fantasy
[Pictures: Through the wardrobe, illustration by Marco Soma for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Image from Marco Soma illustrator);
Jane entering the book, illustration by Nicolas Hill for Jane’s Adventures In and Out of the Book by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, 1972;
The Cyclone, illustration by W.W. Denslow for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1900 (Image from Internet Archive);
Tree wolf image by chic2view on 123RF.com.]
May 23, 2022
Hard at Work
[Pictures: The Builders (From My Studio Window), color woodcut by Gustave Baumann, 1909 (Image from Art Institute Chicago);
Fixing the Wires, color linocut by Lill Tschudi, 1932 (Image from The British Museum).]
May 18, 2022
Books Within a Book
“You like that better than the big showdown with Baron Skellgrim in the first book?”
“Okay, it’s my second favorite part.”
“And what about when Laundry Basket gets its flying back from the Gloaming at the end of the second book.”
“Yeah, that’s pretty triumphant. So maybe the romance is my third favorite part.”
“And nothing can compare to Anneke and Morrik’s escape through the catacombs with the orb.”
“Aha! That’s the point, isn’t it? They would never have been able to do all that if they hadn’t realized they loved each other! So maybe it’s my favorite part after all!”
[Pictures: Title Page of the outer Extraordinary Book of Doors, in the style of the inner Extraordinaire livre portes, by AEGN, 2014;
May 13, 2022
#WyrdAndWonder
May 24 - Forest Guardian: quite a few mentioned back at N is for Nature again
May 27 - Portal Fantasy (celebrate a subgenre): Portal Fantasy
May 28 - Imaginary Verse: So much! Try Poetry for Worldbuilding, S is for Skoven,
Poems of Middle Earth, There's No Knowing What We Shall See!, and of course
[Picture: Beyond the Thorns, rubber block print (two blocks) by AEGN, 2017;
May 7, 2022
#PrintDayInMay
[Pictures: Photos of pieces in progress, AEGN, 2022]
May 4, 2022
#AtoZChallenge 2022 Reflections
B - dragon
C - yali, (plus links to malacomorphs, ypotryll, umbrellaphant)
E - (links to xana, isnashi)
F - Pegasus, (plus link to malacorana)
G - will o’ the wisp, (plus link to hercinia, qilin)
J - unicorn
K - (link to ouroboros)
N - season fairies, (plus link to cherufe)
P - fairy village, (plus links to pussy willows, ziz, aspidochelone)
S - gargoyles
Y - yale
Z - wapaloosie, capybureau (plus links to fur-bearing trout, ypotryll, musical beasts)