Japanese Bookbinding

We started learning/practicing japanese book binding in class. I think that it the beginning designs are pretty straightforward but look like they can get quite complicated as you progress in skills. However the more complicated they get the more beautiful they get as well. Here are some examples of designs that I found and liked.


 

Hand Painting

The first finished print I am panning on doing this year is a hand painted print. I have never done hand painting before so I thought I should do some research. I found two different artists who both do hand painting, whose work I like and whose work is very different from each other. 

Shae DeTar

Shae's use unnatural and out-of-place color makes the images very cool and interesting. Fun to look at and striking.  

Jamie Foster  

Jamie's style of color use is much more subtle than Shae's and makes the images look more natural. The combination of the images that she has shot in combination with the colors she uses make the images look rather ethereal and unnatural in a different way than Shae's.

Summer Bummer

This summer we thought it would be a good idea to go on a family backpacking trip in Steens mountain. The weather report said there was a 20% chance of light flurries with little to no accumulation. The first day was quite lovely and so was the next day until about 3:00 pm. Then, about a quarter of a mile up a 1200 ft high canyon wall headwall, we got caught in a blizzard. After a cold, arduous day we went to bed, tried not to freeze to death and then woke up to another cold arduous morning, which later turned into a beautiful day. Then we went home, a day early, because we were miserable.

Day 1

Day 2 pt. 1
False sense of security

Day 2 pt. 2
wow! snow is so much fun

Day 3 pt. 1
No way in hell I am doing this again tomorrow

Day 3 pt. 2
Alright, this is sort of pretty. Still going home