The creative impulse can leave me laughing sometimes… I love to put random pieces of leftover stuff together and this is one that caught my eye today. Even on a cloudy day, e*graphic material is luminous, and this funny construction also highlights how very lightweight it is. With only a dried acorn cap as a base, and a hastily wound piece of leftover copper wire as a support, a small nosegay of color is held jauntily in the air. Magic!
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Various accordion forms

Encaustigraphics are an interesting medium for accordion books. You can easily bind pages or sections with sewing (either using a machine or by hand) or taping (colorful washi tapes or even “invisible” tape), but the material also scores cleanly to create crisp folds. Below are two examples created for an upcoming class at Kalamazoo Book Arts Center—the first shows a layout that uses the idea of discrete “pages” or sections, and the second features a long flow of imagery divided intuitively and then cut and shaped to create a very sculptural book.


Books and other 3-D forms using e*graphics
Scoring, folding, tabs and cutouts let you use encaustigraphics for a variety of sculptural forms. This example is quite simple, but imagine using your own images to create luminous 3-dimensional art. The next class is February 13, 2016 at Kalamazoo Book Arts and focuses on a variety of techniques for using e*graphics to make accordion books. Plus, KBAC’s Accordion Book Show is approaching, so come and try making your own folding structure using this luminous material.

More window color
Ginkgo Cascade
A new year…
Light for the Solstice
And more…
Playing with Forms
Pen Dragons retreat demo
Last Saturday was the annual retreat for the Pen Dragons calligraphy guild, and I was invited to demonstrate e*graphics to the group. What a fun session with a group of talented artisans who were up for learning a new way to repurpose their art. Everyone got to make the small demo project shown below (calligraphy by Lisa LeBlanc) and get a taste of the e*graphic experience. Contact me at the email provided on the “About” page if you have a group that would enjoy learning how to create a new art material and the many things you can create with it!
