It's Calendar Time!

Finished my 2019 calendar a few weeks ago. This is is the 10th year I've been doing the letterpress calendars printed from my linoleum blocks so, I decided to do a special edition with 2 colors for most designs. It was definitely more of a challenge to design and print - twice as many blocks and registration on press. Available now in my Etsy shop.

Birds inspired by Aldo Londi's Bitossi birds

National Pig Day is March 1

Nothing says summer like an Adirondack chair

Mid century inspired candles

Twice the carving, twice the fun

Polish Illustration - Adam Kilian

I love folk art and illustration and have recently become interested in vintage Polish art.  I saw images from this book online awhile ago and it suddenly came up for sale on Ebay so I snatched it up. The book was published in 1965 in Warsaw and I believe it is a play (the text is all in Polish...) It was illustrated by Ukrainian-born artist Adam Kilian. For some history about Adam Kilian, check out this website culture.pl. You can see more of Kilian's illustration on another website, Fishink (and Fishink has lots of other great stuff on it too!).

Here are most of the illustrations from the book  although not necessarily in order.