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ing to see people standing on the side of the road offering fruit and flowers some were crying some bowed to show respect the monk s selfless gesture was so heartwarming this is a collaboration i did with marti haykin she did the beautiful monk drawings i added the backgrounds i wish you all peace and awareness it is so amazing that we are here at all living in the world which is sometimes horrible but also sometimes beautiful posted by judith hoffman at 11 49 am 0 comments labels free for all zines saturday december 27 2025 tibetan cham dance mask a diy free download my first sketch of a cham dancer the background is a piece of discarded architect s tracing that has layers of different colors of acrylics with a thin top layer of white applied with a rib happy new year this mask is inspired by tibetan cham dance costumes skeletons represent the disintegration of the body and states of mind the stylized dance shows the liberation that follows acceptance of the impermanence of life the dancers usually have crowns with 5 human skulls on their heads and fan shaped ornaments on their ears i took some liberties to make the mask easier to cut out and fit in a regular sized envelope tibetan cham dance mask modeled by innocent but willing bystanders there is a video of the cham dance here after testing several ideas for this year s mask this one was the most appealing although tibetans don t see the skull as terrifying i think my western feelings about death and the current state of world affairs have crept into the mask yes we can be liberated by accepting the idea of death but i am also thinking about the potential death of our world and our democracy is this a time to dance probably not in happiness but maybe in protest download the mask here i hope you all find some peace and joy in these crazy times judy posted by judith hoffman at 11 45 am 0 comments labels free download free for all sunday december 21 2025 making art under the influence of old age artist book page by judith hoffman with lots of squiggly lines showing what a shaky hand can do i originally started this post to be about aging and making art there are physical limitations that creep in but it also became some musings on aging and how i try to accept that much to my surprise i turned 80 this year even after seeing my parents and in laws age and die i m surprised at how hard it is of course i have medical things to deal with but the physical slowing down is what gets to me i am not very bothered by my wrinkles and sagginess after all i am lucky to be alive to have a home and food and to have family and friends who love me and lucky to be able to work on projects that are engaging but the lessening energy the physical struggles are disheartening i have had a tremor in my hands for years it s getting worse i m left handed and the left hand tremor is more pronounced than the right sometimes when i draw my lines are wavy it can be frustrating i try to regard the wavy line as a feature at times it can blend in well with my drawing style which is somewhat loose warming up helps finding the right posture helps using scissors to cut out things has also become harder with small things i cut right handed and brace my right hand against my left as i cut it s much harder to cleanly cut larger things where my hands can t brace against each other i think getting tired makes the tremors worse my doctor says there is no physical ailment it s just age detail from drawing showing squiggly lines produced by shaky hand it s a consequence of getting old they don t always work for me but here they do i have less energy than i used to i have always been slow to complete projects now my books evolve at a snail s pace in part because they are more complicated but i also don t get in the studio as much many household tasks are ignored i sometimes lose interest in an art project before it s finished i am as always easily distracted often more interested in doing something new than repeating what i did last month it does help to try to make small progress on a project just a little drawing in a background can re ignite my interest in the pages i am trying to complete there are tricks that most artists know spending time cleaning in my studio and spending time with tools and materials even if it s just to doodle it also helps to make collage papers or to cut out things i might use in collage i must say the process of drawing and collaging is still as alluring as ever once i start i am engrossed for several hours and end up feeling so rewarded as i have aged my priorities have changed i care more than ever about the process and less about showing the books some people want to leave a mark before they die but that s not me i would like to have some of my books in public collections but haven t pursued that much and i feel that when i m dead i won t really care anymore if i spend more time making things and less on entering shows that s the best way to spend my time i want to enjoy my life now page from an artist book in progress by judith hoffman my dad used to say it could be worse whenever he mentioned his physical ailments meaning he could be dead i think of him often and agree completely as we move through our lives the way our bodies change and ultimately death can be our teacher forgiving our bodies for dying for aging for becoming sick can feel impossible even radical but it s essential if we want to fully appreciate the time we have we can love our lives even while knowing that one day they will end martine panzica from lion s roar november 2025 happy holidays to you all i hope you will be content with life and feel productive in the coming year judy posted by judith hoffman at 11 53 am 0 comments labels about the art process death work in progress tuesday july 15 2025 fixing a big mistake i mostly like this page but the arm of the woman behind the large hand is bothering me for all the wonky drawings that i accept as fine this one was not fine i spent 3 weeks thinking about what to do and working on other pages i could just glue more eco dyed paper over the part i didn t like but it would stand out as being glued on drawing over the arm with white ink made a mess but it did lighten those lines i made a stencil and printed a thin coat of pale titan buff on the areas that were bothering me then i glued coffee splattered abaca paper on the offending area a new arm is collaged on maybe it s too short i think his arm and shirt need a pattern sometimes this looks okay sometimes i am not happy with it i ll put it away for a while here i have extended the aura around his neck i also added shrubs and another arm for the woman i feel the sleeve needs something check out this recent post jane davies recently did about a change she made in one of her paintings she has a very good attitude toward making changes and she is skilled at it i agonized over every step here feeling bad that i had made this mistake i need to take jane s approach and if i can make mistakes and correct them i will feel more okay with experimenting posted by judith hoffman at 1 37 pm 0 comments labels about the art process fixing mistakes work in progress tuesday june 17 2025 i eat lettuce and milk for breakfast a page from my handmade book my dreams defy analysis 2024 7 75 x 5 75 x 1 inch closed i am emptying a big bowl of lettuce and milk onto the ground behind our house i was eating it for breakfast but a lot of the lettuce was old and brown and yellow i don t want any more i see a tiny man about 6 inches high ride by on a tiny horse he is at the foot of the hill he goes so quickly then he disappears near some rocks when i walk over to see where he has gone at first it looks like he disappeared into some huge boulders that make a wall but then i think he has climbed a small ravine that goes up the hillside when i look up i see he has become huge maybe 12 feet tall he is a bulky guy very thick in legs and arms as i watch he leans over and becomes a huge boulder on the hillside no one would ever know it s a man the man was so real in my dream and i felt like i had seen a marvelous thing lately i have been having a lot of stress dreams searching and not finding worrying about things so this felt like a real gift the image is from my book my dreams defy analysis posted by judith hoffman at 9 24 pm 0 comments labels collage drawing dreams friday october 18 2024 writing a meaningful artist s statement with jane davies fluke 1987 7 x 5 x 1 inch closed collage and acrylic paint on watercolor paper i have been anticipating this class for months originally i thought i could write one really good statement and cross that off my to do list it s not that easy jane suggests a new statement for every new body of work or maybe every 6 months it does make sense as we look at what makes a good statement i realize i would need to re write it every time my work changes with jane s guidance we dug into ourselves and tried to explain what was important to us about making art it was hard work i usually just write whatever comes into my head i ended up with 17 pages of text and notes and three paragraphs that work well duck dreams 1987 7 x 5 x 1 inch closed collage on watercolor paper acrylic paint at one point i went back and looked at all my earliest books to try to explain why the book format was so important to me i think my interest in artist s books goes way back to a text book for an art class i took around 1965 there was a photo of a handmade book that had a glove stitched to one page and a ladder on the opposite page this whole book as a revelation it had a lot of art that i would not have defined as art and i loved a lot of it it was eye opening i figured out which book it was and ordered a used copy i m very curious to see that again in my dreams we travel in boats 2008 so far i have 17 pages of rumination out of that has come a statement that feels authentic to me it s certainly the best one i have ever written i have learned more about myself and i know more now about what i want to say in my art i would definitely recommend this class to people who are willing to put in the work it s like a college level class with time consuming homework but it only lasted 5 weeks with more time to discuss for another 3 weeks the more time and effort you put in the more you will get out of it fluke 1987 7 x 5 x 1 inch closed one of my favorite early books i wanted to take the time to look closely at everyone else s work and writing and try to respond to it partly because i don t feel i m very good at looking at art in general and i m often not able to articulate what i feel about it as people s statements came into focus they helped me to see their art in a new light i had never realized how important and helpful a good statement could be and here is the statement dreams have been a major interest all my life when i was around eight i had a dream that terrified me little creatures were quickly lifting me up in the air my family was far below calling and reaching up to me but the creatures carried me higher and higher i couldn t get away i woke terrified i had the feeling that dreaming was another world as real as our waking world i did not want to go back there for months i have kept a dream journal off and on since i was in my 20 s when i went to art school in my 30 s i became consistent and started using the dreams as inspiration when i m dreaming i can draw aside a curtain in my mind and see more of what s going on there i don t understand most of my dreams i always write them in the first person present tense and end with i wake books hold stories and are the perfect containers for dreams they can be held in my hand pages are turned the images are sequential and so influence each other more books feel personal i believe books can contain answers to all the big questions where did i come from when i was born where will i go when i die i just have to find or make the right book posted by judith hoffman at 10 43 pm 0 comments labels artist s statement the business of art writing poetry sunday september 08 2024 i find a penny dream intruder artist book 7 75 x 6 x 1 inch acrylic ink found papers dreams drumleaf binding eco dyed papers by judith hoffman i m with my family we re deep in the woods at first i find a penny while we talk someone dies we have to go somewhere else we travel in a coach with horses i find a dime mom dies on some steps outside a house she is buried in the wall of the house then i find a quarter that seems big i think it means i will die but then people start coming back to life mom comes back to life on the steps outside the house i wake up there is a nickel on the floor of the laundry room i don t want to pick it up posted by judith hoffman at 8 32 pm 0 comments labels artists books death dreams sources of inspiration older posts home subscribe to posts atom get new posts by email subscribe about judith hoffman blog i use a variety 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