Janet Jones: Saturday, April 14

Today I visited several Open Studios, among them the San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Center Open Studio, where my daughter had some pretty impressive work on display. Have a look, at alisonwoods.artspan.com.

Why a blog?

I've been wanting a place to show work that doesn't easily fit into my website. Some pieces are experimental, or one-of-a-kind, or things I don't want to part with but would like to share. Some have back stories that are too long-winded or too frivolous for the website, but that I still like to tell. For the official story, visit the website: www.janetjonesfineart.com.

I also have been wanting a way to share news about artists and exhibits my readers may enjoy. I hope longtime followers will forgive me for keeping older and older posts, but they're favorites of mine that I enjoy revisiting.

LETTERPRESS, BREAKING ALL THE RULES

Letterpress printing has a long and distinguished history, and I have been privileged to know and observe many fine printers at their work. So it was with some trepidation that I undertook to improvise a way to do a series of works by letterpress printing on my etching press. I took a monoprinting approach to printing wood and metal type, working with layering and transparency, combined with the tactile quality inherent to letterpress printing. As in monoprinting, I wanted to take advantage of chance and happy accidents, and at the same time pay tribute to the innate beauty of the type itself. I printed the piece above on a page from an old Gaelic bible. The eye was printed digitally from a scanned image from a type specimen book.

Saturday, April 14

Some Open Studios

Why a blog?

The one that got away

Unexpected treasure

The death of the printed word

LETTERPRESS, BREAKING ALL THE RULES

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