It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...🎄
Feat. Lunch Lady Miru and her darling niece, Audrey Grace! 🥰 This is Audrey as a little kid again, she's 8 years old here and on vacation at a ski resort this time. Her fluffy unicorn backpack is back, and there are little silver bells attached to her coat pockets, so she jingles as she walks.
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Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle - Charles d’Orbigny - c.1844-1849 - via e-rara
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The most pitiful pinecone owl I've ever seen
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Had to share this @WeHeartIt
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painted this lamp I got at a rummage sale
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Talks by queer folks : more land and water friends - Mary Ellen Bamford - 1893 - via Internet Archive
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A Winter Pinecone Wood Engraving Wednesday
This winter, I received two hand-printed holiday cards with original wood-engraved pinecones from a couple of engraving friends of UWM Special Collections: Wisconsin artist Tony Drehfal and Kentucky printer Joanne Price. The top pinecone is by Drehfal, and in his card he writes:
I created this pine cone “study” engraving for the special WEN [Wood Engravers Network] calendar, and it was printing so easily on my finally restored Albion Press, that I kept on printing winter cards, which I have not made for years. The image is closely based on a inked sketch by a U.S. Forest Service field worker -- C. L. Taylor, in 1907. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Carnegie Mellon University) has a bunch of these drawings in their collection. I loved this one and worked to see if I could translate it into a wood engraving. I learned much --
Price’s pinecone, entitled “Pinecone Breeze,” is one of nine wood-engraved illustrations by Price for When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story written by Sena Jeter Naslund and published by Larkspur Press in 2021 (which we did a post on back in March 2022).
It is always exciting to get original wood engravings in the mail!
View more work by Joanne Price.
View more posts with wood engravings!
-- MAX, Head, Special Collections
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