peculiar artistry & guerilla publishing
Posted in events on Nov 29th, 2008
Thanksgiving morning we drove up to downtown Detroit, MI for the America’s Thanksgiving Parade put on by The Parade Company. We had such a BLAST – the balloons, floats, and paraders were amazing, it wasn’t too incredibly cold out, and everyone in the crowd was in good spirits!
We got there [...]
Posted in odds & ends on Nov 28th, 2008
Look at this beautiful card my mom made me for Thanksgiving using japanese maple leaves and dried flowers!
She’s been making cards like this over the past few years, using flowers and foliage from her own expansive garden, and is now officially on the craft circuit selling the cards at church craft fairs in South Florida. [...]
Posted in odds & ends on Nov 26th, 2008
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Check out these amazing old postcards sent to my boyfriend’s great-grandfather between the years of 1908 and 1915.
As a huge fan of vintage postcards and mail art in general you can imagine how excited I was to stumble upon a pile of these interesting and unique small works on paper! Above are [...]
Posted in silk screen on Nov 21st, 2008
Here’s a little sampling of some of the baby items I’ve been reconstructing lately in anticipation of my friend Suzanne’s daughter’s arrival. Can you tell I’m ecstatic to be an auntie?!!
Some of the onesies I silk screened with the same designs I used for my felt wallets. Others, I reconstructed [...]
Posted in for sale, silk screen on Nov 16th, 2008
I’ve been printing on my Gocco like mad lately and loving it!
I finally picked up some Riso fabric ink for another project I’m working on – silkscreen baby onesies for my friend Suzanne’s little bean – and thought I should put the screens to good use and try to get more than one print out [...]
Posted in book arts on Nov 14th, 2008
I was all set to post a tutorial about one of the techniques I learned at the Basic Book Repair workshop I recently attended at Hollander’s – tipping in loose pages – when I came across a tutorial on the same subject on The Book Arts Web. The pictures in The Book Arts Web [...]
Posted in book arts on Nov 13th, 2008
I’ve always been drawn to Book and Paper Conservation as a career, given my science background and passion for books and works on paper. Now that I’ve landed so close to Ann Arbor, the book publishing capitol of the US with a strong german bookbinding tradition and two book conservation labs to [...]
Cristina Montejo
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