Lions & Hyenas -Winter Solstice present to you all by november22
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Well, there is not a way I can show the book unless you're in my area [Chicago] or in Omaha where I also have gallery representation, so the below image is a cut&paste of a web page I had for a gallery that was showing my books. They wanted a representation of the works, and the story or text to entice folk into wanting to see the actual artifacts.
My book works were all very tactile, books to be petted as someone said, so this is a very pale representation. Text as show is not Jokerman but pale old helvetica to make it easy to read on-line.
Story:
It was literally a dream, woke up and proceeded to write it down before it faded. Darn easy way to do it. The images suggested themselves as I wrote it out, so made a bunch of thumbnail sketches in the margins of the paper - book layout followed that initial burst - text on left pages, images printed on right facing pages, vellum used for text [with lots of color] and heavy paper for the block prints. This was also my first use of lino blocks or relief printing, so the block designs got better as I went along LOL.
This took weeks of work and was to be an edition of ten [i remember now!] but due to goofs it became edition of nine.
Consider this my holiday / winter solstice present to the RR community.
~ peace and love ~ tim
Comments (11)
Mondwin
Brilliant done Dear Friend!!!!!!!!!!bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
helanker
OHH My! What a fantastic story. I really love it and I love all your beautiful art too. LOL !!!!! I better finnish my story too. :)
2Loose2Trek
Very cool story and art Tim ... and I, also, am looking forward to the solstice/astro-theological rebirth of the SUN.
figharo
Beautiful. one of a kind object!
anaber
It is a lovely story and the butterflies are smart..i loved it.
kasalin
Excellent story and a very, very nice artwork too !!! 5** Hugs:):):)
jocko500
wonderful looking here
anahata.c
wow, you wrote children's tales! This is a delight, Tim. And fun names too (Fang-Slash!) And I like the way you explain things like "pride," etc. But what's most lovely is that you designed everything, a complete artist's work: the cover, the binding, you picked out the paper (The Paper Source, yes! I bought from them all the time along with Aiko's!), the binding, the print, you did all the art, layout, etc. This is true artisanship, where an artist creates & carefully chooses everything. I have no doubt it took real time & effort. The prints are beautiful (and must be beautiful full size), and it's fun to see the prints after seeing the blocks (blueprint & realization). Some have enticingly indigenous styles, with elements of Pre-Columbian, etc. And thanks for including the block for the laughing hyenas too: Especially nice to see the contrast between block and print. Finally, the butterfly is quite delicate...You know, I'm out of town, logged in, found this, and thought it was just terrific. What a multiplicity of art you've created in your life (I know you did serious film work too). A great gift for the solstice season! All good spirits back to you, good sir! Great upload! A definite fav.
NekhbetSun
Does your talent know no bounds Tim??? :o) ....enjoyed the tale and accompanying images and thanks for the early Solstice gift S B*B n Hugs ~
Marinette
Come faccio a dirti che non ho il " traduttore simultaneo? " Excellent work!
Burpee
+Great story Tim. Enjoyed it emensely. I like the block images too.