by Terra Osterling | Dec 15, 2013 | Books and Reading, Publishing, Storytelling
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. A little more than 550 years ago, a metal-smith, a gem cutter and the owner of a paper mill collaborated on an invention that changed the world. The Gutenberg Press ushered in a paradigm shift in sharing information –...
by Terra Osterling | Oct 23, 2011 | Block Cutting and Printing, Creative Pursuits, Experiences, Finding the artist in me
Writing is my craft, but block cutting is becoming a creative outlet. It is the art that set this ship sailing – a quiet, solitary process. A little physical, a little analytical, and a lot of faith. Last Fall I took a Block Cutting and Spoon Printing class at...
by Terra Osterling | Jul 10, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, How I got "here", Letterpress
My last Letterpress project did not turn out as I had hoped. My Alphabet set in Onyx, plus numbers and symbols, was, I decided, about as exciting as an eye test. My classmates’ Alphabets are a funky arrangement of large wood type in “Condensed Gothic,” a clever poem...
by Terra Osterling | Jun 19, 2011 | Creative Pursuits, Experiences, Finding the artist in me, How I got "here", Letterpress, Storytelling
My mother was once told by a school evaluator that her kindergartner had a “slight fine-motor disability;” I have never been able to color inside the lines, I am not to be trusted with dispensing superglue, and it takes me a few tries to put my house key in the lock....
by Terra Osterling | Jun 12, 2011 | Experiences, Inspiration, Lessons from Faith, Letterpress, Motivation
This week in Letterpress class, I finally printed a real project. It is a bookmark to commemorate a mission at my church, the Giving Tree. You might know the Shel Silverstein children’s book of the same name, about giving, pretty much until it hurts, out of...
