by Tara Bryan | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Finally assembling Making Bread (not bombs), my book for Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and Book Art-Object IV. Five sections inkjet printed, laser cut and scored, then folded by hand and glued together, in a plain brown wrapper (Cave Paper) closed with linen twine. You can see a video of the laser cutter at work on...
by Tara Bryan | Feb 9, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Quiet Saturday morning. The bread/bombs project was put on hold temporarily, as I learned on the afternoon of January 23rd that the building had been sold and I had to be out by February 15th. I have spent the past two weeks packing, sorting, tossing, recycling as I am working on moving my printing shop (presses, type, guillotine, Kensol, and lots of paper) from the space I have occupied since 1994. I knew it was coming, but the thought of moving was so overwhelming I couldn’t make much progress until I HAD to. I do always work better with a deadline!...
by Tara Bryan | Jan 13, 2013 | Artist book, bread, Uncategorized |
This is the painting for the bomb side of Making Bread (not bombs). The brilliant Ray Fennely photographed it in sections (the original is almost 7 feet long) and spliced the sections back together.Now I am dropping out text and cutting it apart again to fit the template for laser cutting the sections, and I am beginning to see a pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel! The other explosion paintings may become book covers or pages for other books. Later. I have almost completed a spreadsheet of countries of the world (234 of them) with names of their traditional breads and time zones so they can be sorted. Maps of Mesopotamia and Iraq, and snippets of text from various sources will tie up the package. The logistics of printing and laser cutting, determined by the idiosyncrasies of the machines, have been, um, fascinating to work out. The patient and jovial Ken Holden has helped me produce Corel Draw files that the laser cutter will be happy with. And so the project progresses at a slow burn. (I’m hoping this week I’ll finally be IN the tunnel!)...
by Tara Bryan | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I have been working on wet-on-wet watercolors, trying to suggest an explosion without details. Something like this will be on the “bomb” side of the Making Bread (not bombs) I’m still (slowly, slowly) working on. The larger images (8″ x 60″ to 24″ x 72″) are being photographed and I’ll put them up when I get the...
by Tara Bryan | Sep 30, 2012 | Uncategorized |
I have been painting fruit, especially pears and sometimes apples for a long, long time, and tend to return to them when I am stuck. This has been a year of clay feet for me, but I think I’m finally getting back into the groove. Lots of ideas, an embarrassing number of partially finished projects, but little completed work. Painting some new pieces for a group show at the Botanical Gardens has helped. Since I haven’t posted ANYTHING in a while, and I generally take photos of paintings in several stages, I thought a series of images of the sweet peppers I finished painting yesterday would make a nice post. They were on a white plate sitting on a red chair (one of my favorite backdrops). The canvas is 12″ x 12″ and as you can see, I wipe my brushes off on the wall. I don’t sketch, but just start painting from the objects. I take photos of the still-life for reference, because the produce often shrivels (or worse) before the painting is completed. This painting was finished from the photos… And now on to the...
FLATROCK, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
Painter and Book Artist