tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71890254773496423832024-03-12T19:15:34.659-07:00Eliza Holliday Letterist.comelizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-12213510710740211532015-03-01T08:00:00.002-08:002015-03-01T08:00:20.106-08:00Excited to be teaching on the West Coast! Manzanita, Oregon, just south of Cannon Beach, on March 15th, 2015. Teaching longstitch journals to make Artists Sketchbooks….<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On my presentation night, I got everyone up and "media dancing" to Bobby McFerrin's Circle Song Six! The activity was the most fun...the result is kind of chaotic...<br />
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Old Friend, New Friends at Ghost Ranch!<br />
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Learning different ways to draw with pointed brush....elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-87707440978837994452014-07-14T05:00:00.000-07:002014-07-14T05:00:00.160-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Returning to Ghost Ranch (this decade) for Literally Letters! The Ranch hasn't changed much, of course, except for expanded housing, very tastefully done adobe bunk houses on the Mesa. Same light dry air, no bugs, blue skies and the same calligraphically enthusiastic students in the big room at the pavillion! elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-624008231223843702014-06-17T03:58:00.001-07:002014-06-17T03:58:54.845-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Encouraged to play!<br /><br />elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-16539779234145088832014-06-17T03:52:00.002-07:002014-06-17T03:56:53.020-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This happy librarian was part of my workshop at NEFLIN this month...we spent the day making small bookforms that the librarian can use for involving mostly children and teens in books, writing and literacy.<br />
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Shirley had at work on her object drawing. Drawing takes a little patience!<br /><br />elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-51027567075165948512014-05-02T13:54:00.000-07:002014-05-02T14:07:01.776-07:00Graphite Graffiti In Birmingham!Discovering the word of the pencil and the pencil with letters...we also had students from Nashville (like Kathy E, pictured here), Louisville and Pensacola. Spend the weekend drawing, smudging, erasing.....<br />
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This is my Longstitch Multiple Signature Artists Sketchbook class recently at the Island Arts Association Eduction Center in downtown Fernandina Beach!! Look at these proud students and their books! Not the easiest book of book forms in the world, but they stuck to it, after binding a single signature book (most for nomenclature) and binding the longstitch instructions into a slim candy box as the cover <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYlPep0f9P4S3KLr51lElk6-EudX3ZrBGGvQJgMUC3-v5ruok85FQhPvcb5rahNZDM_BrNl2wBCDHW3I3h2wZ3Q9CS_NuAdrAcfXt4mt9rXXeYBlXcjdJa3a6_LMbjLDNDCalEtI5tpA/s1600/Longstitch+students.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYlPep0f9P4S3KLr51lElk6-EudX3ZrBGGvQJgMUC3-v5ruok85FQhPvcb5rahNZDM_BrNl2wBCDHW3I3h2wZ3Q9CS_NuAdrAcfXt4mt9rXXeYBlXcjdJa3a6_LMbjLDNDCalEtI5tpA/s1600/Longstitch+students.jpg" height="400" width="317" /></a></div>
<br />elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-10872772679880535242014-04-06T05:34:00.002-07:002014-04-06T05:34:54.287-07:00This sheet of calligraphic "doodles" by my student Candy, a member of the Gulf Coast Scribes, shows me that she is getting comfortable "twisting" the brush ( makes those triangular shapes) and edging in/edging out with a hairline...all key to making good roman caps, with a brush or pen.<br />
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This is a Roman Letter focus sheet handout of mine. Those serifs are tricky, and need some agile brush manipulation! So in Edged Brush Xplored, we do a lot of warm ups with flower petals, bamboo, birds, and even zebra stripes, to get students to feel comfortable with turned the edged tool in mid stroke. To the left are excerpts from these warm up handouts...<br /><br />elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-24205429926723337162014-03-30T05:32:00.003-07:002014-03-30T05:41:10.439-07:00Students in Pensacola<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just returned from teaching Edged Brush Explored - where we do lots of warm-ups for tool manipulation (in this case, the brush) and then try those Roman Serifs...on at least some of the Roman caps! Obviously, flowers and zebras are more fun!<br />
<br />elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-29688041621628185582013-05-13T17:27:00.001-07:002013-05-13T17:27:19.900-07:00Valentine pop-ups In Ft Meyers for SWFLN!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got a chance to work with Librarians in the South West Florida Library Network this year...we had a fun day of making pop-up cards, pop-up books, even caterpillar books and stars! A great one for just before Valentine's Day....elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-62343562599056847442012-12-10T04:25:00.002-08:002012-12-11T04:22:53.043-08:00Star Ornaments and Books!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A great finale to another season of the Artists Books Series! After we learn the basic folded unit of these sculptural books, we can make two kinds of book forms. Students had a great time creating Christmas star ornaments with paste paper colored on both sides, and on to star books and a larger format album made from the same folded unit! We made the usual huge mess, but out of that came....STARS!elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-12764736770283654502012-05-25T06:56:00.001-07:002012-05-25T07:03:36.582-07:00Neuland In Color in Orlando!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I taught the Neuland alphabet in Orlando for the Central Scribes of Florida and we had fun the second day colorizing our names ( I had everyone pick the name of a person who is a "hero" to them, and we had a wonderful mix of popular cultural heros, relatives, family members, etc!) We reviewed the color theory and worked our compositions using "split complements". As usual, all we needed was more time!elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-24204757631133477612012-05-22T12:33:00.003-07:002012-05-22T12:33:56.643-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a new librarian/educators workshop called "Upcycled Journals", focusing on using recyled materials for the covers and page of the books, using exposed stitch, multiple page binding. I taught as a one-day workshop for the Tampa Bay Consortium (librarian enrichment in the Tampa area). These book are a little more challenging, but we slugged it out, and came up with some very original books!elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-571528165445808482012-02-04T08:21:00.000-08:002012-02-04T09:09:20.157-08:00Love Letters 2012<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyz3Sn2kX9exVn3-OoOIhtfSxXEFfBpXkqnf33PM8bGF44YbJ9AsZa9Qvd-qktzPf4OB81PdcwZU9ivJBXFsw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />This valentine girl is reaching for her 21st year in the Love Letters business!<br /><br />Happy Valentines Day and consider hiring a Letterist for handlettering for products and packaging, customized logos and custom alphabets, calligraphic paintings and sculptures, teaching lettering, wordpainting and the bookarts. <br /><br />And Thank You those who gave me a call in 2011!elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-77830361324791408812012-01-20T04:51:00.002-08:002012-01-20T04:54:41.239-08:00Exposed Stitch Bindings for Artists Books<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNA-pnyPRWHXxdVCt7FhlvewvXlFluG3f3VnAbyFT6MnXMsgBs_GRpINFWA4ssVrDqz9zSNZJKUBV95Af_812C6qyopGdXa7BiWm7Q20Ygw1v85IUo0KgdcFWakBCsJd7qFAq9ltmZ0s/s1600/IMG_5670.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNA-pnyPRWHXxdVCt7FhlvewvXlFluG3f3VnAbyFT6MnXMsgBs_GRpINFWA4ssVrDqz9zSNZJKUBV95Af_812C6qyopGdXa7BiWm7Q20Ygw1v85IUo0KgdcFWakBCsJd7qFAq9ltmZ0s/s400/IMG_5670.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699696461476041426" /></a><br />These are some happy bookmakers after a day of learning a rather lengthy sewing process to put together their multi-page artist's sketchbooks into handpainted covers...as interesting and varied as the faces around the room!elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-40252260023086792962012-01-20T04:51:00.001-08:002012-01-20T04:51:36.652-08:00elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-22071601436276292852012-01-20T04:09:00.000-08:002012-01-20T04:46:12.599-08:00Coptic Journals<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgra3M8Hfby5QSylt68bYz7S1WEkYy7HLFO5W1YrSezi4UyVJzrFFW2kCTEN3j1WeE1XVWOYYiY_mgBQmob4qDJNrROq34PWT99OPsAbf9quuuFipTPDKgpVWQF00fPB50PHBPVGXo_jw/s1600/my+coptics.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgra3M8Hfby5QSylt68bYz7S1WEkYy7HLFO5W1YrSezi4UyVJzrFFW2kCTEN3j1WeE1XVWOYYiY_mgBQmob4qDJNrROq34PWT99OPsAbf9quuuFipTPDKgpVWQF00fPB50PHBPVGXo_jw/s400/my+coptics.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699694361951383618" /></a><br />These are some of the coptic journals I regularly make<br />to sell...and use! Their advantage is that they open<br />COMPLETELY FLAT so you can use/get to the whole page...<br />plus the pretty chain stitches one the spine...elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-20575423801000293322011-11-19T13:32:00.000-08:002011-11-19T13:35:34.499-08:00Artists Books<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uWLnVIrEfKxAPKz8d9ii3z0UoB-35Z4gRFPsAlfWrQ69C0Pcj1VNKv1kG1lOcipb08Fmz2LNeKwhjG42Kf0JDHqOTh-v8i5egQ4N1-5z5_08DEh19ZfrRx-DlLzLAahvQn6E-Ygtz64/s1600/Artists+books+Fall+11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 124px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uWLnVIrEfKxAPKz8d9ii3z0UoB-35Z4gRFPsAlfWrQ69C0Pcj1VNKv1kG1lOcipb08Fmz2LNeKwhjG42Kf0JDHqOTh-v8i5egQ4N1-5z5_08DEh19ZfrRx-DlLzLAahvQn6E-Ygtz64/s400/Artists+books+Fall+11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676823498454338066" /></a><br />Here are some happy bookmakers at Island Arts Education Center on November 5th!!elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-43124513149413055922011-10-23T18:54:00.000-07:002011-12-03T06:19:24.047-08:00A Speech to the Garden Club of America" by Wendell Berry - My version is "Fuel"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhEvjqBYjFaArS5NESIuDtAGY1Y-P7aIITtOPkWQGV0vFxFsJ97yfGttxZP-NusjvM8JBr6dRladx4IqTUS8Hvset4U_IHaML1f41zV36E1rAXh8yyHJ-dIQDqRRtgCm1XbHjQSX5Z8s/s1600/sunflower+page+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhEvjqBYjFaArS5NESIuDtAGY1Y-P7aIITtOPkWQGV0vFxFsJ97yfGttxZP-NusjvM8JBr6dRladx4IqTUS8Hvset4U_IHaML1f41zV36E1rAXh8yyHJ-dIQDqRRtgCm1XbHjQSX5Z8s/s400/sunflower+page+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666871605924437394" /></a><br />FUEL has won the Jaffe Collection's Purchase Prize! I'm proud, but I will miss having it around for my drawing students...it's made with Canson charcoal paper and Graphite pour paper, which all my graphite students make in my drawing letters class. It's a diamond burrito book in a hard cover; to see how this book is made, go to Youtube and search for "diamond burrito book".elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-16948304849003455722011-10-23T18:16:00.000-07:002011-10-23T19:02:51.822-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0fUf6JVDis0RmRbiCDf9fg-KS6Dg_rzo6n1my8SEk-Rzr9NApJjAHcpGqb6i9GVve-G2K1L7ErkVAdImg55Y2n91n1c-WaAMhdUxHKlyyJKCuLxMXheHpQbkiuW_93YKOQykk5AFF8o/s1600/falsify+the+land4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0fUf6JVDis0RmRbiCDf9fg-KS6Dg_rzo6n1my8SEk-Rzr9NApJjAHcpGqb6i9GVve-G2K1L7ErkVAdImg55Y2n91n1c-WaAMhdUxHKlyyJKCuLxMXheHpQbkiuW_93YKOQykk5AFF8o/s400/falsify+the+land4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666862440281512418" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXwpW-hp_kk2ULA7DWKK9NuNpdrEAKRuS7HbgVSTGYbukcYT6zeFC3RBRzPAmjmD3Y8M6AnLhxgY3NUt2glFPDHroCN3cnKlhwXjHf-FZ1Xk3zT-RGqd43__WqI-Rufild-vXoZo-Elw/s1600/Fuel+front+cover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXwpW-hp_kk2ULA7DWKK9NuNpdrEAKRuS7HbgVSTGYbukcYT6zeFC3RBRzPAmjmD3Y8M6AnLhxgY3NUt2glFPDHroCN3cnKlhwXjHf-FZ1Xk3zT-RGqd43__WqI-Rufild-vXoZo-Elw/s400/Fuel+front+cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666861780763061090" /></a>elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189025477349642383.post-91617608507224693712011-09-01T04:15:00.000-07:002011-09-07T10:47:20.554-07:00Kids Making BOOKS!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_R5c7cstk3aqKlXFTJt5mjQ14pM8j5syZn38I3w7m6vH609oueaRso2BYO0mZH5x5D09aPprukR3rY2pFsrUvAq9wb_qA0OUCwBxWQkgz-M8j5b8OnoRAHXIbNZEz8Or8F9oGWkzKFGE/s1600/Kid%2527s+bookmaking+in+Palm+county.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_R5c7cstk3aqKlXFTJt5mjQ14pM8j5syZn38I3w7m6vH609oueaRso2BYO0mZH5x5D09aPprukR3rY2pFsrUvAq9wb_qA0OUCwBxWQkgz-M8j5b8OnoRAHXIbNZEz8Or8F9oGWkzKFGE/s400/Kid%2527s+bookmaking+in+Palm+county.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647349808237956338" /></a><br />They brought me back to Martin County again to conduct workshops in several libraries this summer...two in one day! In one branch I had 38 participants, including the moms and dads! Whew! But we ended up having a blast, and the two hour format meant we had time to write stories in our books (even tho some were "dictated" to a parent). And, of course, they were amusing, sweet and heartfelt. <br />Now I just need to find libraries that will have me give workshops that are closer to home! Because this is what I love to do...elizahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07889400541982427190noreply@blogger.com2