The Awful German Language Pamphlet

Do you remember my Awful German Language Pamphlet Project? I cut and printed 10 Lino cuts, illustrating Mark Twain’s “Awful German Language”, an appendix to “A Vamp Abroad”. The plan was, to have this limited handprinted edition of 12 sell for an hourly wage of 5$ (haha!) which [...]

I finished this special edition of “Awful German Language” with my hand printed lino cuts just in time for the craft fair and the holidays.

The text is by Mark Twain who spent time in Heidelberg, learning German. He had fallen in love [...]

Finally a picture that illustrates the second text by a German author

Congratulations to  Dymphie, who won this give away. Apparently she recognized the “unfortunate fir forest” on Saturday, and she was the first to correctly comment that all these cuts illustrate “The Awful German Language” by Mark [...]

Here are another three cuts in my give-away quiz. – It only looks like one on top. It is about 30 cm long in the original. It consists of three blocks and it will sit on three consecutive pages in the book in the end.

Here they [...]

the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest

I am illustrating a text by a famous American author at the moment. The first who can guess which story it is, wins the pamphlet containing the text and the lino prints. I decided to post two today, [...]

wegen des Regens

Ich nehme zur Zeit an einem Pamphlet-Tausch auf dem Bookartsforum teil. Nach längerem Hin und Her habe ich mich entschieden, dass mein Beitrag nicht einfach leere Seiten haben wird. Es werden zwei kurze Texte darin zu finden sein, mit einigen meiner Linolschnitte als Illustration. Einer der Texte [...]

Learning German

I am participating in a swap that we are holding at the book arts forum. I’ll have to finish a pamphlet until October 1st (I really hope my workbench will be there in time, and I’ll be able to make it before the deadline.) [...]