I am teaching a “Drawing Basics” Class at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative beginning this Sunday, September 9th, from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm! The class will run for four weeks.
If you would like to get back into drawing, and familiarize yourself with art making tools, you can learn more about the class and sign up here:
CPC Workshops, Classes & Worksessions
Updates from September, 2012
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Drawing Class at CPC!
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'GRAPHIC CANON' Book Launch: May 23rd @ The Rubin Museum
Next week, I will be on a panel with some incredibly talented folks for the launch of “Graphic Canon: Volume 1″, to which I contributed my adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. The event is being held on Wednesday, May 23rd at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York. I’m very excited for the release of this incredible 3-volume anthology.Below is information on the event. I should also mention that back in April, I contributed a piece to ‘The Wheel of Life’ project, as part of the exhibition “Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics” at The Rubin Museum. Come earlier and you can see the completed Wheel, the full comics exhibit, and stay for the book launch and signing!
Wednesday, May 23rd at 7 pm
Price: $12 (members $10.80)
150 W. 17 St., The Rubin Museum of Art
5pm-7pm: Himalayan Happy Hour in the café
6:00pm: Pre-program book signing with Graphic Canon contributors
6:15pm: Pre-program tour of the comics exhibition Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
7:00pm: Book Launch in the theater
8:30pm: Book signing with artists and editor.
Come early for Himalayan Happy Hour and join Graphic Canon contributors Peter Kuper, Valerie Schrag, Shawn Cheng, Fred van Lent, Rebecca Migdal, Sandy Jimenez, and Brendan Leach for a pre-program book signing in the café followed by a presentation and discussion of The Graphic Canon in the theater with artists Molly Crabapple, Sanya Glisic and Gareth Hinds and editor Russ Kick.Ticket includes pre-program tour of the comics exhibition Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics and a book signing with the editor and artists after the program.
Artists Molly Crabapple, Sanya Glisic and Gareth Hinds join Editor Russ Kick for the launch of The Graphic Canon, a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. Called the “graphic publishing literary event of the year” (Publishers Weekly) Volume 1: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. It features, The Tibetan Book of the Dead reimagined by Sanya Glisic, Molly Crabapple’s version of Dangerous Liaisons, Gareth Hinds’ watercolor telling of The Odyssey, as well as Hamlet, The Divine Comedy, The Arabian Nights, Tale of Genji, The Canterbury Tales, The Tao te Ching, Gulliver’s Travels, Don Quixote, Candide, an Incan play, a Native American folktale, works by renowned artists Will Eisner and Robert Crumb and much, much more.
Edited by Russ Kick, The Graphic Canon is an extraordinary collection that will continue with Volume 2: Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (August 2012), and Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (October 2012). The entire trilogy features over 189 works of literature visualized by more than 130 illustrators and artists. Most of the works are specially commissioned for this book; some rarely seen before.
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Struwwelpeter @ Quimby's Bookstore!
I will be presenting the Struwwelpeter book & project at Quimby’s Bookstore in February!
Visit Quimby’s website for more information!
The event will take place at 7 pm on Thursday, February 10th
Quimby’s is located in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood at 1854 W. North Ave.
I am SO excited for this event! Quimby’s is an amazing bookstore, one of my favorites in Chicago. I’ve spent hours perusing their comics and totally wonderful & strange books, and attended some really great events. From their website, “Quimby’s is an independently owned bookstore that sells independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. We favor the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and the lowbrow”. If you’ve never been there, you should definitely make the trip and support these guys!
I really hope to see you there!
Check out the fb page for the event by clicking here
You can also read more about the project & residency at spudnikpress.com/struwwelpeter
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Struwwelpeter!
Now that I’m back, I thought I’d post some updates on the Struwwelpeter project!
There’s been a lot to do on the books, so I’ve been busy ordering materials and finishing it all up.The pages have all been screen-printed and cut down to size, hooray! I am now folding, sewing and gluing everything. Soon I’ll be applying the covers and wrapping it all up in bookcloth.
For the next few weeks, I will be recording the book-binding process as much as I can. Since I’m relatively new at this, I’m learning as I go and trying out new things, so I’ll make sure to post whatever tips and notes come up along the way.
If you’re curious to try your hand at some book-binding, you can follow along!First, before the pages can be bound, they need to be folded. Since I have over 620 sheets of paper to fold, setting up a jig sounded like a good idea. Now, there is no doubt in my mind that what I came up with is a seriously janky solution… but it actually worked out pretty well! :)
I used some illustration board to set up the edges, then taped a ruler across (making sure it is aligned to the halfway point). The height of the illustration boards allowed for space to slide the sheets in & out.
Once the sheet was in place, I used a bone folder, sliding it down the length of the ruler a few times. This creates a crease straight down the sheet… click for larger view:
The clean crease allows the page to fold in half without damaging the paper grain.
The fold is pressed a couple times on each side with the bone folder, creating a sharp fold. And voilà! Pretty soon you have a whooooole stack of pages.
Curious to see the next step in the process? Come back soon!
Have no clue what Struwwelpeter is or what I’m doing with it? For all posts having to do with the project, go to the CATEGORIES column on the right and click on ‘Struwwelpeter project’. -
Ho-Ho-Holiday Card Making Workshop!
An upcoming workshop at Spudnik Press, taught by Ness Rago and myself.
Ever wanted to screenprint your own collection of holiday cards from scratch but don’t know where to start? Come learn how in this quick and fun introduction to screenprinting on paper! You’ll enjoy warm treats & cider and walk away with your own handmade greeting cards!How it all works:
Students will come with a 1-2 color design that they would like to make into a line of greeting cards. Screens will be pre-coated with photographic emulsion to allow students to focus on perfecting their design, transferring their image to a screen, mixing colors, and finally…. printing! Students are asked to bring 20-40 blank cards to print on, as well as the finished design on a thumb drive or CD (non-digital imagery is also okay). All other materials will be provided.
Wednesday, December 8th
from 6 – 10 pm at Spudnik Press
with Ness Rago and Sanya Glisic | Price: $40 (15% off for Spudnik Press Members)Visit http://www.spudnikpress.com to sign up for the workshop!
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German lessons, ja?!
Ah! Every once in a while, a good idea just hits me and I have to share! Okay, this is not the greatest mind-blowing idea ever… BUT I’m pretty excited about it. So – I’ve been trying to teach myself the German language on and off for a while (”trying” being a very loose term here, more like “wishing.”) Of course I’ve managed to grasp very little of anything. So it dawned on me today that I should draw some items every day and write their names in German. This will help me learn and it’s a really fun exercise. Of course, a lot of German words are practically the same, like ‘lamp’… I learned that after drawing it. I will get better at this!
So if you want to learn some German with me (hee hee), check back and I’ll be posting the drawings as often as I can. Here’s some night-related items to start.
Tschüss!
