the cassandra pages: From the Studio this Week

Who was Cassandra?

In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.

January 28, 2016

From the Studio this Week

Olive. I'm experimenting with multiple-color relief prints...more on that in a day or two...and papers other than my usual Japanese rice papers. This is on lightweight Rives BFK, printed by hand: paper which is just substantial enough to be used as a card.

And it's been back to drawing. You've probably seen many of these objects here before! I like the relative speed and looseness of this fountain pen sketch.

And an ink and watercolor wash drawing of some broccoli rabe on a blue ceramic dish, done last night while dinner was in the oven. It feels good to be drawing again after a long break over the holidays.

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