The online home of Adventure Cartoonist Lucy Bellwood
A watercolor postcard I doodled many moons ago just resurfaced in my pile of outgoing mail. Thought I’d share for the sake of getting some color in here for a change — though my scanner doesn’t play nice with the vividness of the colors. I’d like to start doing these regularly, since I have a mess of blank watercolor postcards and a desire to revive and better my rusty-going-on-nonexistent skills. I’ll keep you posted.
Someone’s inking a comic! 
Also: taught a comics workshop at Reed this evening that went super well! Had an awesome group of students and even though I know I probably talked too fast, they seemed to dig it. Looking forward to showing the collaborative comic we came up with. Good stuff!
Planted 80 spring and summer bulbs in the garden yesterday. Happy.
Look! More goodies!
This was a freelance calligraphy project I completed last year for Open Meadow, a local program empowering at-risk youth in North Portland. I have a good friend teaching there right now and it sounds like a pretty awesome place. You can find out more about their work at http://www.openmeadow.org/.
The piece was done with various round Speedball nibs, Dr. Ph. Martin’s Black Star India Ink (for lettering and ink washes), and a Pentel Pocket Brush.
NOT DEAD. STILL HERE.
Don’t believe me? Then have a full photo walkthrough of my major project for last semester’s Book Arts class! Untitled, Oct. 10th is a rendition of a poem by my dear friend Hallie McPherson (whose insanely powerful work can be found on her blog), illustrated, designed, hand-printed, and bound by yours truly. The project was a fantastic opportunity to delve further into letterpress, since I had to turn all my illustrations into polymer plates for printing, as well as setting all the type by hand and devising a new stitch for the binding that wouldn’t obscure the type. The process was incredibly labor intensive (both the paper and the covers were all dyed by hand) and I still have 4 more editions to bind, though the printing is thankfully done. All in all, I’m really happy with it, and doubly so that the poet now has a copy of her own, so I can finally splash it all over the internet!
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A more detailed description of the process will be up on the Bookmaking page by the end of the week, so if you’re interested in any of that feel free to check back on Sunday for goodies — and throughout next week for all the work that I haven’t had a chance to photograph yet! Yippee!