Needless to say, it has been one busy week around here! Tomorrow, we’re taking a much needed break and heading out of town, just for the day, to the Dia:Beacon.

In the meantime, the other set of invites, RSVPs, direction cards & envelopes I just finished up!

These are all done with a copper ink and fuchsia ink on ecru Crane’s Lettra paper. The band of paper around the whole package (in the last photo) is a painted Japanese heavy rice paper.

I have a feeling this counts as another project which Matt could easily look at and say, “proof of concept”. It’s been a long way, from the initial design ideas to the finished product, but it all turned out just the way I envisioned it and I’m so pleased with and proud of the results.

Heritage
by Paul Engle

I have inherited
My mother’s nature,
Sensitive to light,
By any strong wind led,
Loving each living creature,
And from my father feature
In eye alert of sight,
In a horse trader’s head,
Hands that are never still,
Hair brown as a walnut hull,
And finally a will
Running through bone and marrow
Tough as grandfather’s skull
Which seventy years ago
Broke a hickory arrow
From a Dakota bow.
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