Book arts

Here's a photo of Howard Munson, book artist
and teacher, taken at last year's Printers' Faire
in San Francisco. He's holding a damaged
antique Japanese screen, showing the trove
of wonderful old papers packed into the back.
He told me that antique dealers are often able
to date old screens by opening the back and
reading the dates of the newspapers that were
used as filling. 

And now for something completely different...

Here's a hilarious bit on youtube for art lovers:
www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=erbd9cZpxps.
An article in the May Art News told how it was created,
and named the works. When you've given up on
identifying the hard ones, you can find the list at
www.janetjonesfineart.com/artnewstitles.html.

New Lark Publication

I'm one of 40 artists from 7 countries represented
in this new book, and frankly, I'm thrilled! It's
beautifully printed, and available in bookstores
and on Amazon. It's been great to learn more
about artists whose work I've been following for
some time, and to meet new ones. A plus is that
I've had some lovely email exhanges with others
in the book and found some strong affinities with
people I'm looking forward to knowing better.