Press Restoration Success!

After removing the rust from my 1925 (new to me) 8 x 12 Chandler and Price printing press, I needed to figure out how to animate it. Operating the press only with my hands and arms is not practical or efficient. My options were to buy a foot driven treadle (like old sewing machines had)…

Beneficial Insects Image Process

What are beneficial insects anyway? Beneficial insects are insects that pollinate trees and plant-life while they collect nectar from flowers. Insects that are predators of undesirable, destructive insects are also seen as beneficial to human activities. There are many more beneficial insects than what I have included in my book, but you can count on…

See Starpointe Studio Prints on Exhibit in NJ, NY, MN and Oxford (UK)!

Wood Engravers’ Network 3rd Triennial Exhibition, June 30–August 8, 2017, Stockton University Art Gallery (Galloway, NJ) Western New York Book Arts Center’s Members’ Show, July 14–August 18, 2017 (Buffalo, NY) Minnesota Center for Book Arts‘ Parts of a Whole 4. August 25–October 29, 2017 (Minneapolis, MN) Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition. October 18–November…

Summer Commissions in End Grain

These past few months have been full of fun adventures and productive studio time. This post focuses on the commissions – the first commissioned by Larkspur Press for “Planting Trees” a poem by Wendell Berry that will be printed as a broadside and sold at Black Swan Books in Lexington, KY. Trees are complicated structures,…

All-A-Flutter at KY Crafted: The Market!

Stop by the activities area at KY Crafted: The Market this weekend April 22 & 23! We will be making Butterfly Books – the Viceroy, Kentucky’s state butterfly! The butterfly covers are original prints designed, handprinted and cut by Joanne Price. Another pollinator for the Market and a delightful book to record stories or drawings…

Some Heavy Metal

Lucky girl to have so many wonderful allies and supporters – Gray Zeitz of Larkspur Press donated this lovely little (heavy) press to me 🙂 It was a cold day to move a press: a 15 degree Farenheit start at 8:15 am. We started out plucky enough and arrived at the King Library Press in…