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Been a while

October 25th, 2014

It’s been a while. Been busy with teaching, still working on my little boats woodcuts, been painting, studying with Paul DuSold, last Sun near New Hope and today and tomorrow in the Wissahickon. Beautiful fall days – so much to learn.

I sold the print I had on display in Finland. very exciting. Took awhile to figure the international finance involved in having payment from Finland end up in my bank. Paypal to the rescue!

Been drawing in charcoal – I’m having my students learn to draw with charcoal and it got me going. I having much fun with it!

Charcoal Tools!

First day of class!

August 26th, 2014

First day of class is always like the first time I taught – never get used to it. Always a new start, new students, Never sure what’s changed in the class room – what works, what doesn’t – lots of bugs to figure out…BUT the students always make it OK. Here is this year’s freshmen drawing class – doing drawings of their new environment – and adding to it – taping on new pages I keep handing them for over an hour. Always surprises me and them how everyone’s work, given the same instructions and same subject is so different. My job is to help them grow but to keep them all different! Isn’t easy.

DRAW101 - day one
First day Fall 2014

Made my day!

November 12th, 2013

Facebook message…

“Hi Beth!! Just wanted to let you know I am using every trick you taught us in class for Photoshop at my current job. Can’t thank you enough for making me listen ( even when I tried not too).”

Drawing

October 30th, 2013

Going to teach a 3 credit drawing course next semester and excited about it. Drawing has been part of many of the various courses I have taught in the past but I’ve never taught a straight drawing course—what luxury!

Type Crimes

January 30th, 2012

Been awhile. The holidays and then start of school. But things are settling down—a bit.

I teach a class in typography and whenever I cover a subject I see examples of it and its abuse everywhere. I’ve been covering the use of quotation marks, apostrophes and prime or hatch marks.

(Prime marks are straight up and down and are used with numbers to indicate inches or feet. Quotes and apostrophes are curved or slanted, depending on the font. )

They are used incorrectly so often that people have begun to accept them when they would not accept a straight up and down comma. (Hopefully!)

It was my Mom’s birthday and we took her out to dinner. The food and service was very good but the typography was all over the place. The other samples are within a few blocks of her condo. So, Type Geek had to document them. (click image for larger view)

Exterior sign for Aldo’s

Two more exterior signs—same restaurant

Logos on plates and menus

Two signs—two apostrophe treatments—same place.

What’s this?

Accordion Books

March 14th, 2011

Here are some close ups of joining pages and of cover treatments.
Click on the images for larger views.

1. Here the pages are cut with extra paper at one end to over lap the next page on the back.

2. This uses medical paper tape available at drug stores to butt two pages.
These joins are done after the pages are prepared and cut to size.

3. The pages of this book are prepared and placed in a separate cover which has two folds giving three parts: back, front and an inside flap. You can glue your first page in place and glue the inside flap over it but sometimes it’s nice to leave it loose.

4. This shows the page glued to a separate front cover and covered with a textured endpaper.

One and four are Canson paper, two and three are computer paper with a heavy paper for three’s cover.