Book in a Day

Print a small book edition in one day, combining text & image with hand printing & water based inks. Even if you have never made an image before, you will gain confi-dence and amaze yourself and your friends when you show off your very own book! Create and design your image, transfer the image, plan the printing sequence, carve a soft block, and print it by hand with a brayer and water based inks. Each letter of text will be set in rubber fonts. Collage elements will be encouraged.
All aspects of this green print shop can be recreated at home.
In this workshop, students will create an accordion book with text and images, and complete a small edition (up to 4 books). All materials will be provided (paper, type, soft blocks, brayers, inks, collage papers, Speedball carving tools).
Limited to 10 students, open ONLY to Brown and RISD undergraduates
To register, e-mail Richard Ring (richard_ring@brown.edu) BEFORE March 1, 2010

Instructor:
Mindy Beloff
Proprietor of the Intima Press (NYC)

Location:
THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY
An institution for Advanced Research in History and the Humanities at Brown University.
Corner of George and Brown streets
Main Green, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
tel: 401.863.2725
fax: 401.863.3477
Email: JCBL_Information@Brown.edu
THE LIBRARY is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901.

National Newspapers and Science Encyclopedia Database Trials

The library currently has trials to two databases.

Access Science's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Proquest's National Newspapers Premier

Both databases are set up to work on campus.

Please email your feedback on the databases to risdlib@risd.edu

NYPL and maps

The New York Public Library recently launched a new Map Rectifier website that works in conjunction with maps in its Digital Gallery. The site allows zooming, panning, and georectification—a process that allows digital images to be stretched, placing the maps themselves into their geographic context. Once a historical map has been digitally warped, users can virtually “trace” features, such as cities, farm boundaries, rivers, ponds, and even buildings, converting them into digital geospatial data....
NYPL Blogs, Feb. 3

National Archives Joins the Flickr Commons

National Archives Joins the Flickr Commons

The collection includes Ansel Adams photos. The U.S. National Archives flickr photostream.

photos sources of the human figure

Where can I find photographs of figures in different poses to draw?

These books are listed under the subjects, human figure in art and anatomy-artistic pictorial works. Follow this link for a combined search of both subjects.

Or try these:
Virtually browse the call number area NC765

Entourage(architectural rendering)

Eadweard Muybridge

The Picture Collection collects images and arranges them into folders by subject. Follow this link to see folders on human figures

LACMA's Reading Room

Los Angeles County Museum of Art has launched a digital archive of their exhibition catalogs called reading room. Currently this collection consists of 10 catalogs mostly from the 1960s. More to come in April 2010.