dry {enough}

I printed the covers for my zine almost two weeks ago and they weren't dry enough to fold until today, and I still got a lil ink on my fingers! It could be because I used super lovely, but non-porous, hand-painted wallpaper for the stock -- or because maybe I added a little too much crisco to my ink. :/

Either way, I prolly shoulda used that drying time to print and trim the pages of the zine, buuuuuut I didn't! Maybe I'll do that today. Or maybe I'll celebrate this long awaited sunshine with a lil tequila.

draft

Today I completed a little comp of my China zine.

I ended up doing the imposition by hand due to a lack of Adobe programs and it went surprisingly well. Also, I discovered my printer lines up double-sided prints like a champ - well done little guy! The cover sheet is some rad old hand-painted wallpaper. I love it! I'm planning on block printing the covers, so after some simple content editing I'll be drawing, carving and printing those.

the china syndrome

I've been working on a zine about my adventure in China two summers ago, it will feature most of the watercolor drawings and collages I made while in China as well as a few snippets of journal writing from that time. Here are some rough scans of the pages I've done lately:

I'm excited to finish, but who knows when that will be given I work at a snail's pace (it's cool, man...). In any case, trust that if you are one of my loved ones you'll be seeing it - maybe more than you'd like! c: