endpapers....

I love endpapers, to me they are the best bit of the book, and I saw a post on
Andrea Joseph's Sketchblog
today which inspired me to do a post of my own on some beautiful examples I found online.

Yellow phantom

http://www.drawger.com/show.php?what=shows&show_id=27&image_id=955

Velveteen rabbit

http://www.drawger.com/show.php?what=shows&show_id=27&image_id=957

Poe’s tales of mystery and imagination

illustrated by Arthur Rackham, originally published in 1935, this is a reprint from the 1970's.

http://www.drawger.com/show.php?what=shows&show_id=27&image_id=1873

A selection of Nancy Drew book endpapers

Mama’s bank account

found by Jeffrey

http://www.goofbutton.com/2007/12/mamas_bank_account.html

Pj's....

found via : This isnt happiness by Timothy Buckwalter

This sums me up perfectly - lazy with a passion for Pj's.

Twit-twooo

Magic Theatre

I went to see an open Artists Studios evening in Dalston on Friday and whilst there I discovered the work of Ali Hutchinson and I fell in love with and bought this beautiful print.....

Adventures in Gocco - Part 1

My first foray into Print Gocco.

The Gocco printer is meant to be my xmas present from my beloved ones, but of course I had to make sure it was working before surrendering it to the cupboard for another month ;-)

Two colour print xmas card design - got 60 of these out of one inking on the screen, could have got at least 80-100 if I hadn't run out of card stock, so satisfying and shockingly easy!

I just drew a design onto a postcard sized piece of paper with a carbon pen (came with the set but easy to find elsewhere - mine has seen better days sadly, hence the chunky lines!), exposed the screen, inked it and away I went, like child's play!

I GOT GOCCO!!

I have in my possession a Print Gocco PG10-Super screen printing machine.

It is quite simply ruddy amazing.

I am obsessed.

Here is one of its brothers - keep your eyes peeled for the fruits of our labours coming soon!

Tara McPherson

Tara McPherson is my favourite artist, I own several of her prints and I never tire of looking at them, the majority of them are beautifully printed band posters with really bright inks which I love, the detail is fantastic and I love her illustrative style, plus she has a hilarious tattoo on her finger, got to love a girl with a comedy tattoo :)
Thats her on the left, but I am equally loving that the girl on the right has on one of my favourite necklaces, but that's another story.


I was very lucky to have purchased these at a time when the dollar was pretty weak against the pound so I bought LOADS, it was a pretty well executed obsession at the time, apart from having to pay the import duty...whoops! That was an expensive little surprise....

Anyway, here are the prints in my collection, my wonderful treasure for all to see ;-)