It's been so long, I've forgotten how to make a post here. Three years about. I'll put up a picture of the coptic blank journals I made for a while, that 'while' I was not writing, not drawing.
The colorful covers are from hand marbled silk I created in the very early 90's, when I was marbling, when I was a member of the world marbler's guild. Or maybe it was the late 80's? For the journals, I also made prints on hand made Tibetan Lokta paper with a wonderful natural permanent printing ink from Wales - Caligo safe wash relief inks, by Cranfeld. I absolutely love carving out the designs for the prints.
The dragon with the rose is one of my drawings I created for use as a label for the powdered incense I made (called "Red Dragon") and packaged in small round tins and sold for awhile during the era of shops filled with crystals and herbs. The dragon is printed on elephant dung paper
I'm not making the coptic books now. It's quite hard on the wrists. They make wonderful gifts and I now have many blank art journals with pages of lovely heavy duty hemp paper to draw and write on when I am able to do so. That's what inspired the making of the coptic blank journals - I couldn't afford the commercial bound art journals. The journals using lighter weight pages are made from paper made from sugarcane. The books are bound with hemp twine.
Charlie Gillett's Sound of the World forum is no longer accessible. It's been 10 years since he died - 17 March 2010. For nearly 2 decades he, the music he loved and shared with the world, inspired me, this blog - even influenced my travels and created deep friendships. It was in the discovery of the absence of the forum, this decade, that I looked for my blog after a long while, years even, of not looking at it to see if this blog still existed. It does. Somewhat.
It's time to find and fill my ink pens again and quit worrying that I don't (or perhaps, didn't) add color to my ink drawings. As for writing a poem, they have very little to do with time or one's relationship with time in other than cadence.
