Much Love by Ashley G. Inspired by a vintage heart doily… it is so calling me, I must answer…
Perfect for the black and white area for our house… It can go with these pillows, too…
Here is a red one. Few more colors are available and they all look so cute, I want to have them all if I could… :)
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Good morning. I hope you had a nice weekend and are ready for the new week…
Let’s start the week with a pretty print — Wild Garden (kaleidoscopic) from Yumi Yumi. Isn’t it lovely? I like that it almost looks like a heart shape and the colors are just so pretty. I first saw this over at elephantine, I had to ask where it is from.
and yes, the details, details, details. Very nice.
Check out more of her work from here.
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I can’t believe it took me this long to post about this project… but I am so happy to report about my Live Now project (click this link to see the project details) I participated!
I knew from the beginning I wanted to print something with wood types because you just can’t get that same texture on computer, I thought it’d be so special for the project… so I printed a quote from William Arthur Ward — “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; If you can dream it, you can become it.”
My wood type blocks are limited and so when it’s a long sentence, sometimes I don’t have enough letters…
so that I have to print some words first…
and then, set the type to fill in the blank space…
to complete the first half of the quote.
Second part of the quote, I had all the letters so I could print all at once.
After I printed these, I scanned them in, send it to Eric, and he took it from there — and it’s been up on the “Live Now” site since! Thank you so much!!
I actually printed a few more to share at my shop… if you are interested, it is available here!
Limited to only 20 sets :)
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Spotted on brainstorm’s Flickr account. Fell in love at first sight.
I love some colored leaves… awesome details!
Thursday morning inspiration… have a great day :)
p.s have you enter the Live What You Love print giveaway yet? It ends tonight! GOOD LUCK!!
p.s.s Silver and Gold Cake cards are now with free shipping within US and to Canada! :)
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Art insert, School of Fish by west elm. Caught my eye.
It’s on sale and it is free shipping until today! What a bargain!
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I came across these prints by More. an artist workspace and I thought they were awesome! (and unfortunately, it is sold out… sigh…)
It is letterpressed (the yellow) on top of the digital prints — I just love the spontaneous yellow graphics on the black and white digital prints! How fun. Inspires me to work on my next prints…
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Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco is having an exhibition of jewelry, prints and paintings called “Ford + Forlano: Forth + Back” starting May 1st (oh my god, it’s tomorrow! May already?!) to May 31st. When I saw one of the images from their prints, I was so amazed and wanted to look more. I thought it was sensational! Interesting thing I found out is that the artisits, Steven Ford and David Forlano live in coast to coast, collaborating by sending unfinished work forth and back between them. So these prints (and all the other work, too, of course) traveled between Philadelphia and Santa Fe. You can read more from their website, but their work is truly a collaboration, that is how it takes their pieces to a next level. I wish I could go see this exhibition… if you are in SF, check it out and let me know how it is! Velvet da Vinci is an awesome gallery space, I miss going in there.
Here are some of their print work:
*images are from Velvet da Vinci website
Patrick Thomas’s work will be featured in the latest exhibition at The New York Times Gallery 7 this Thursday – how powerful is his work? Very simple, iconic, conceptual and smart screen prints, they are often society and politics related but it communicates so well and makes you think.
If you want to see more, RSVP to galleryseven@nytimes.com. The exhibition, curated by Nicholas Blechman, will be on Thursday, March 19, from 7-9pm at The New York Times, 620 8th Avenue, 7th Floor, in New York.
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The letterpress swap dealine is in a week and a half – and I finally received my plates from Boxcar Press!
I can’t wait to start printing! It’s going to be 4-5 colors… I never printed in that many colors together, I know it’s going to be a lot of work, but why not?! Right? I’ve been wanted to try overlap printing, I think it creates wonderful effect so you’ll see many overlappings in this print.
Attached here is my inspiration from Lizard Press – how beautiful is the overlapping part?
It’ll be available in my shop, too, so stay tuned… :)
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This print was for my husband Randy. He wanted this quote be printed for a while… at the same time, our 2nd year anniversary was coming up, it was the “cotton” year, and I’ve been working with cotton paper… so I immediately decided to print this as one of the anniversary gifts to him! A perfect 2nd year cotton gift :)
Wood types — can’t get enough!
My cheat sheet – it really helps when setting types.
see?
and printed…
It’s mounted, but haven’t been framed just yet… soon, soon.
He liked it and I think it’s helping him, too… :)
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