Calendar Progress

Several times over the past couple of months, I’ve played around with Japanese paper marbling (suminagashi) with my friend Suzanne. She likes to work very big — making covers for large journals — but I thought working small and incorporating my haiku would work well for me. I’ve begun experimenting with some of my colored Japanese paper (mostly a large stash of Moriki, made from Kozo). Here’s one of my tries to the left — I started with yellow paper, printed my evolving calendar design first, and then marbled. My plan was to do an all-letterpress calendar, as I’ve done in the past, but now I’m thinking I may do some months with letterpress designs and some incorporating other methods, like suminagashi.