It is not uncommon that when someone hears (or mis-hears) a word with an unfamiliar element, they may reinterpret the word to one t...

         Looking for illustrations for  last week’s Ghost of John reminded me of the Dance of Death, aka Totentanz , aka Danse Macabre , th...

         Today’s fantasy poem is a little different: the lyrics of a traditional folk song that many a generation of children has learned ar...

         In the state of Rajasthan in northern India, a traditional use of block printing is the making of jajam floor spreads.  Jajam are l...

         Back in April I finally got around to trying an experiment I’d been mulling for three years.  I first got the idea from a couple of...

         Spring-Heeled Jack was a creature who haunted Victorian England with violent and terrifying antics, becoming a widespread and famou...

        I have completed a new block print inspired by the idea of life on Venus, and I wanted to share some of the thought behind the desig...

          With the significance of early voting and voting by mail for this year’s elections in the USA, I thought it would be interesting t...

         There has been much recent excitement over the report that scientists have discovered levels of the chemical phosphine in the atmos...