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Every face from my Notes 2023 book so far! I did the text on the cover with masking fluid and meant it to say FACES. oops.

#stencil #sketchbook #characters #illustration #printmaking #documentation #printing #stencilling #experiment #doodling

Small guys from my small book

#sketchbook #characters #doodles #illustration

Good Cats, Bad Cats book cover from Pam's Pictorama Post; more images and poems from inside on her post!

#old books #cats in art

Ancient roman carving of a cat, photo by Frank Horvat:

#cats #cats in art #ancient roman art #tubecat

The Elephant in the Room by Kay Ryan

Old thought exercises from Children's Art From Deep Down by N. Cole.

Thoughts:

I really love art books from the 60s and 70s

#archive.org #out of print

#out of print #seed collage #craft books #archive.org

Modèles de decoration moderne: l'enluminure appliquée aux objets usuels by L. Rousseau

Thoughts:

lots of nice ornaments

#archive.org #out of print books #decoration #ornament

The Witches' Almanac : Spring 1995-Spring 1996 : for the first time combining the mysterious wiccan and arcane secrets of an old England witch with one from New England by Elizabeth Pepper

Thoughts:

oh the 1995 of it all

I miss photocopiers

I really like keeping screencaps of tables of contents

#witchcraft #90switchcraft #wiccan #1990s aesthetic

Some Eccentrics and a Woman, I've only skimmed this but I love the title.

Specimens of chromatic wood type, borders, etc. manufactured by Wm. H. Page & Co.

#archive.org #type specimens #fonts #things what are pretty

Some images from L'histoire de ma vie by Henry Darger on archive.org. Jim Elledge's Throwaway Boy is the only text I'd seen that talks about Darger's queerness, all his other biographies seem to stop right after his childhood then take up again after his death.