WHP giveaway: eight of twelve

Enter to win this 8 x 11 Hahnemuhle WHP fine art print. Printed on artist-weight felt paper with faux-polaroid borders. This month: A forest against a mountain (in turquoise).



To win:

* The contest is open for four days: 7AM Nov. 26th - 12AM Nov. 30th.
* You can live anywhere to enter. I will ship to you free of charge.
* In the comments section, submit one sentence (please only one) to finish the story excerpt below. (To read the full up-to-date version of the story, click here.)
* Be sure to leave your email information along with your sentence.
* For an extra chance to win, become a follower of this blog. But only if you like, please.
* Check back the morning of December 1st for the announcement of the winner.

The excerpt:

"The plane rocked her to sleep and she woke fully somewhere in the middle of the bus driver yelling out his window. She sits in the back bench along with the cases and boxes; she sees kittens in peeling boats out the side of the bus. Boats on the sides of the highways, pulled high against the stacks of crab traps. The kittens mill like ants, slowly and dazed, crawling over one another. She will go to the sea. ____________________."

So: scribble, please erase little, and submit to me ....


[Comments are now closed. Thank you to everyone who participated! Check back on the morning of November 1st for the announcement of the winner. xo, WHP]

To a musty cabin in the woods

I'll be on Galiano Island for two nights of centering and making friends with deer. Changes are afoot; although rest assured that none of them have to do with WHP. This sky is available for purchase here.

blurofablur

Exhausted and happy. I don't think I have yet shown this print here. It's one of those special ones that the more I look at the more I like. It makes me want to eat stew with dumplings and sleep in. It's here in the shop.

Little sayings: volume twenty-one

Petit Calendar Etsy feature

Esty featured the WHP Petit 13-page Calendar in an email to members two days ago! I only found this out when I received an email from a woman across the pond asking if my handwriting was a typeface she could purchase. *blush*

Canmore Land 2007: book two

I'd like to introduce you to the second WHP fine art book: Canmore Land 2007. It's all winter greens washed with snow to assist with mood.

Miniature. Accordion-style. Limited edition in a quantity of 20. Signed. Numbered. Curating 12 faux-Polaroid landscapes. Decadent paper. Geometric cover pattern. Handmade. Turquoise. Emerald. Jade. Moss. Olive. Sage. Avocado. Teal. Green. Fits in your palm.

For more images and information, please see my shop here.

I need a rest in a nest

Just...so perfect for the kinds of afternoons I would like to lead. And big enough to share with two. Imagine this structured lounger hanging over a bayou, or from a tree in the middle of a field. Oh yes please.

WHP subscription print: November

This month, subscribers will be receiving this patterned print. What do you think it is? I could tell you, but that would be less fun....

Or, maybe it's just better not to know. Perhaps art is the only place where not knowing can actually improve the ambiance of a situation.



To find out more about the art subscription service, click here.

Printing times four options

The photo collections I've been working on come from a variety of years. During those variety of years I apparently had little to no conformity (this is not news for anyone who knows me).

I created small thematic collections, I created collections where particular images were 40 x 40 inches square and some were 18 x 24 inches rectangular. I'm working now to streamline all my past work. No small feat. Let me tell you. But interesting to guess at my reasoning of the time. Interesting to find new options that weren't clear to me before.

While I sort my image sizing to enter the realm of consistency, I am offering one level of new options for you. For all Giclee prints, the customer has the choice of the following four products. Each is decadent in its own way and each lends a different light of atmosphere to the piece.

Printing
✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽ ✽

Prints are professionally Giclee printed by a third party using an Epson Stylus Pro 11880 K3. This technique provides extremely vivid colour reproduction. I leave a ½-inch white border around the top three edges of each print and a 1 ½-inch white border on the bottom edge to create the illusion of a Polaroid.

Textured Fine Art
✽ Archival quality 118 years approximately.
✽ Textured surface for a true artistic appearance.
✽ Acid free to preserve fine art photos.
✽ 100% cotton rag for long term durability.
✽ White surface for vivid color reproduction.

Ultrasmooth Fine Art
✽ Archival quality 108 years approximately.
✽ Natural white ultrasmooth surface for incredible detail & accurate reproduction.
✽ Acid free and pH buffered to preserve fine art & photos.
✽ 100% cotton hot press for long term durability.
✽ Outstanding D-Max for prints with exceptional contrast.

Somerset Velvet
✽ Archival quality 75 years approximately.
✽ Velvet surface for fine detail and accurate reproduction.
✽ Acid free to preserve fine art and photos.
✽ 100% cotton rag for long term durability.
✽ Radiant white surface for vivid color reproduction.

Premium Canvas Satin or Matte
✽ Archival quality 75 years approximately.
✽ Unique texture for true artist look.
✽ Water resistant for increased durability.
✽ Highest resolution canvas for outstanding reproduction.
✽ Poly/Cotton blend, stretchable for framing.

Happy weekend

Mine has been filled with heavy warm food, red wine that pours thick like cream, watching old comedies over the sound of dogs playing, reading over the cat on my chest, splashing in puddles while shading my white Hunters darker, goodbyes for a short while, early brunches where eggs get cold under the priorities of friends, and contented sighs in my head and otherwise.

Outside my window

Holy dust covered musty grey.

Little sayings: volume twenty

And the winner is ....

The winner of October's giveaway for this print is ...



...Aya Wedding! (Congratulations!)

Her sentence to bring our story forward: "Her feet follow her heart, every step takes her to her ghost lover."

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway ... please do come back next month for giveaway eight.

November's giveaway will be the print below (Hanemuhle printed with faux-polaroid borders). It's all about a forest dreaming to blend with the emerald dusk.



xo,
WHP