Wednesday, 13 April 2016

kikyz1313

ink and watercolour from kikyz1313. i like the not using of her real name. currently showing in culver city california - i'd love to see these up close

Monday, 11 April 2016

rs thomas

no poetry in an age. so here's this

Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man

1

It is calm.
It is as though
we lived in a garden
that had not yet arrived
at the knowledge of
good and evil.
But there is a man in it.

2

There will be
rain falling vertically
from an indifferent
sky. There will stare out
from behind its
bars the face of the man
who is not enjoying it.

3

Nothing higher
than a blackberry
bush. As the sun comes up
fresh, what is the darkness
stretching from horizon
to horizon? It is the shadow
here of the forked man.

4

We have eaten
the blackberries and spat out
the seeds, but they lie
glittering like the eyes of a man.

5

After we have stopped
singing, the garden is disturbed
by echoes; it is
the man whistling, expecting
everything to come to him.

6

We wipe our beaks
on the branches
wasting the dawn’s
jewellery to get rid
of the taste of a man.

7

Neverthless,
which is not the case
with a man, our
bills give us no trouble.

8

Who said the
number was unlucky?
It was a man, who,
trying to pass us,
had his licence endorsed
thirteen times.

9

In the cool
of the day the garden
seems given over
to blackbirds. Yet
we know also that somewhere
there is a man in hiding.

10

To us there are
eggs and there are
blackbirds. But there is the man,
too, trying without feathers
to incubate a solution.

11

We spread our
wings, reticulating
our air-space. A man stands
under us and worries
at his ability to do the same.

12

When night comes
like a visitor
from outer space
we stop our ears
lest we should hear tell
of the man in the moon.

13

Summer is
at an end. The migrants
depart. When they return
in spring to the garden,
will there be a man among them?

Saturday, 9 April 2016

Thursday, 7 April 2016

paper marbling



handy downloadable guide to paper marbling

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

more linocut

this is part of nice wee series on linocut. plus you get to ;isten to some polish

linocut technique

suoerhandy video from felcut - includes nice segment on using a slipstrop.

Monday, 4 April 2016

Friday, 1 April 2016

napowrimo

napowrimo starts today. here's some prompt lists if that's your thing

napowrimo

found poetry review

paper swans

mslexia


Thursday, 31 March 2016

marit roland



because i just wouldn't be loving this whatsoever

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

filosofighters



if you just have to have a philosophy based combat game. i believe the science based one - maybe called science mortal - is out round abut today

Friday, 25 March 2016

alternative registration

you don't need ternes burton pins to register a print. here's another method

registering a print



registering a print can be a tricky business. here's a guide to using ternes burton pins

Thursday, 24 March 2016

natalie baxter


i'd imagine there's much of ongoing interest to natalie baxter as she sews replica firearms. true it could be a bit of a giggle but, using textile, there's a subversive element here that has the potential to say plenty across a range of boundaries