inspiration
May 17, 2012
There’s road construction going on outside my office window, and while printing and sewing aren’t activities that require silence, I’m unable to draw while listening to the vehicles moving to and fro all day. I’ve also decided to move my studio back into our home in a few months, and to get to work renovating the attic into a workable studio. Since we’ve recently become half-empty-nesters again, I’ve set up a temporary work space in the newly vacated spare bedroom. To cover up the very ugly walls (which we never painted or fixed when we bought the house) I had a National Geographic cutting party, and put up a pile of reference images to supplement my wall of photocopied source material. Medieval monsters, animals, hands, beautiful faces, elaborate headdresses, masks, ruffly things, cephalopods, bodhisattvas, mushrooms, Elizabeth II in a ridiculous hat and a bunny. I think that’s all I need.
Posted by jodi on May 17, 2012 at 8.21pm
things i love: volume one
May 9, 2012
Peter bought me this bonefolder in the early days of our relationship, during a time when I was living in a tiny, cramped bachelor apartment and working for a petty tyrant and cranking out little leather bound books like a sweaty, desperate machine in my messy little bedroom/living room with woefully inadequate tools. It may seem like a small thing but at the time, having this long slim piece of bone show up in my mailbox was the best present ever. It’s still the best present ever.
I have several bone folders of different shapes and sizes in my studio now, but this one is still my favourite; its pores are filled with leather dye, printing ink, glue and the sweat of almost twenty years of hard work.
Soon I am going to get a portrait tattoo of my bonefolder along the bottom of my right forearm, actual size.
Posted by jodi on May 9, 2012 at 8.22pm
in the studio
May 6, 2012
Lizard body bird leg lady with antlers. In progress, drawing for my upcoming show in Kingsville.
Posted by jodi on May 6, 2012 at 11.26am
today in the studio
April 16, 2012
A dress prototype I mocked up today: a simple a-line shift with casings at front and back waist for ties; centre front and back neck slightly gathered into bias binding of the same fabric. Opinions appreciated. Please keep in mind the following:
1. the dress is much too big for the mannequin;
2. the fabric is hand printed with oil based inks and hasn’t been washed, so it will soften and drape better than this;
3. armholes will be bound just like the neck but haven’t been done yet;
4. I’m just working on the cut right now and the fabric print is still in progress. It’ll have at least one more layer of printing, probably a lace design in black in the lower half of the skirt.
Posted by jodi on April 16, 2012 at 9.13pm
more fabric printing
April 14, 2012
Plaid!
For some quilts I’m going to be making for the shop.
Posted by jodi on April 14, 2012 at 9.05am
today in the studio
April 12, 2012
Fabrics overprinted with hand carved woodblock stripes in gray and pale greeny-gray. These are for summer dresses and bandannas.
Posted by jodi on April 12, 2012 at 10.18pm
stubby
April 5, 2012
I’ve been eyeing up these really nice pencil extenders for a while now, but I’m too cheap to pay the price for the ones I like and too impatient to wait for shipping from Japan. Yesterday in the studio when I was down to a tiny stub of pencil crayon (my last one in that colour), I realized I had a similar thing with a pencil sized eraser in it. That hardly ever gets used.
It fits!
Posted by jodi on April 5, 2012 at 1.11pm
today in the studio
March 5, 2012
Making future heirlooms! Photoshoot tomorrow at the grocery store. It’s going to be a fun one.
Posted by jodi on March 5, 2012 at 11.59pm
helvetica
February 28, 2012
Still plugging away at this big production commission for Broken City Lab. We’re in the thick of the tedious part, making letters and making letters and making letters and yet there are still more letters to make. Deadline is the end of this week.
Posted by jodi on February 28, 2012 at 7.06pm
photo
February 18, 2012
It has been a while but I’ve started drawing in these drum leaf sketchbooks again.
Posted by jodi on February 18, 2012 at 6.46pm
