A Well-Chapeaued Feathursday
Birds in Hats!
Our graduate intern Olivia is currently preparing a major exhibition on the work of wood engraver, illustrator, designer, letterpress printer, and fine press publisher Barry Moser. He is well known, at least in fine press and book enthusiast circles, for his distinctive engravings and exquisitely-designed limited editions from his Pennyroyal Press. The rest of the world, however, mainly knows him for his illustrations for children’s books, which are usually executed in watercolors. We hold many of Moser’s fine press publications, but only a few examples of his children’s books. The Curriculum Collection in our general library, however, holds quite a number of his children’s books, and we are borrowing a few to include in the exhibition.
We are especially tickled by Moser’s humorous paintings of anthropomorphized birds in hats for Virginia Hamilton’s collection of African American folktales, When Birds Could Talk & Bats Could Sing, published in 1996 by The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. The illustrations are a perfect accompaniment to this set of lively and entertaining jewels of American folklore.
Since the book was mostly designed by Moser, it bears an extensive colophon, usually reserved for fine press publications. This is why we know that the paintings were executed in transparent watercolor on handmade Barcham Green paper, the types are Sumner Stone’s Stone Serif Medium (1987) and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse’s Diotima Italic (1953), the color separations were made by Bright Lights, Ltd in Singapore, and the edition was printed and bound by Tien Wah Press in Singapore. Probably more information than any child would need to know, but we sure appreciate it.
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laughing a little at your “whopping 159cm tall” comment bc it’s always funny when ppl taller than me are like man i’m short. i’m 7cm shorter than you 🙃 don’t sell yourself too short (pun not originally intended)
🤣🤣 I know in the grand scheme of things I could be shorter, but in comparison to everyone I know especially my "little brother" who is 6 foot I'm short lol
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I have recently stumbled upon the Fleurmione ship and I immediately fell in love. The fandom is amazing. There are so many wonderful pieces and its inspiring me to create. Plussss dang, the people in the Fleurmione server are definitely one of a kind. It's like I’m a Cru newbie all over again.
Bright Side (13858 words) by redplanet
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
The war is over. Hermione is struggling with PTSD, and her guilt over developing feelings for Fleur that started at Shell Cottage. She’s still pining for her friend when she’s suddenly sent back to 1994 by an unknown force. She relives the tournament as her 19-year-old self in her 15-year-old body in an alternate universe where Fleur falls in love with her after the second task.
Will she find her way back home, or would she rather stay?
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[image Description: a screenshot of Finch. Our bird is wearing a dark pink outfit and headband, a purple scarf, and yellow circular glasses. Their body is bright green and their head patch is pastel pink. End ID]
Just wanted to share what Dipper looks like currently! We named them after the gravity falls character, but we change it every month lol
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bea ily but i’ve been sitting here for 5 minutes both pronouncing “neuvillette” and “impact”out loud in different ways to figure out how they could rhyme 😭
AGSJHSAGAHSH I JUST REALISED THEY DON'T??? i swear it made so much sense in my head i convinced myself they did and was singing lyney lynette neuvillette genshin impact like a little tune everytime i had to tag a post these days about them and it was just clicking!!!! it was mathing!!!! it was giving rhyme..... 😂 honestly i have no excuse they don't even sound alike at all anngngnfng i'm so confused even went to youtube to see if i was mispronouncing the word impact all along and saying it very wrong but the weird thing is i really don't think i am idk what the thought process was i really apologise for the confusion agsjshsj
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The main elements might be known as the elements of creation, but there is something people tend to forget.
The main elements are creation and destruction.
And too much of either one can corrupt the element.
To take fire as an example:
If it takes too much destruction, it just becomes oil that runs and hides out of fear and defense.
If it takes too much creation, it becomes wax that bites and scratches out of fear and defense.
However, if something that is in between of creation and destruction makes contact with that fire,
It becomes balance.
The once frightened oil becomes more brave.
The once aggressive wax becomes more relax.
And with enough persistence, can become fire again.
But, there are rumors about that middle power.
It says that the power can combine both the oil and wax to make something powerful yet still balanced.
Perhaps that’s why that middle element is also life.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I AM DONE WITH THIS
This took 11 and a half hours to finish
It is currently 4:30ish AM, and god I am so glad this is done because
The satisfaction of finishing an art piece that took longer than you normally do, and you were able to expand a bit on your art skills with size of drawing, details, backgrounds, and shading
Just
💖✨yes✨💖
And I would infodump about what this entire poster means, but I am very tired
So if anyone wants to know what this mean, then I will gladly explain when I am awake, have eaten, and is a functioning human enough to ramble for a long time
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