I’m having my mid-morning snack (actually, since I get up at 4am, it’s more of a mid-day snack). I’m still on a radish bender. Yesterday’s radishes were hot and slightly smoky tasting, but they were nice and crunchy. Today’s radishes are sweet and garlicky. The flesh is crisp and delicately veined with red and pink. Mmm.
In artings news, I started on another drawing for the Vessels book last night. It’s Pitt pen and watercolor pencil on paper. Oh, and such paper!–140 lb Cartiere Magnani hot press. It’s yummy stuff, soft and silky and perfectly balanced. I don’t normally like the finish on hot press papers, but I think I’m in love. The act of putting pen to this paper is a joy.
I’m getting ready to begin a journal round robin for the Art Erratica group. Mail out date is March 15, so I need to get started on binding this puppy. (Who? Me? Procrastinate?) I’ve been putting it off because I couldn’t decide what materials I wanted to use. I guess I can check paper off the to-figure-out list. And binding (I’m going with coptic). Now I just need to decide what I want to do for the cover and whether or not I’m going to wrap the spine edge of each signature with a decorative paper or, hmmm, maybe ribbon?
red paper boat 