Starmoth Press

a diary of words, paper and other ephemeral things

Tag: experimentation

  • new collages and the desire to birth an art book

    Collages on watercolor paper. A new wave of inspiration.

    I’m curious if any other artists have experience with creating a book of their art. I’ve found myself enamored by art books lately and would really love to get something printed but am unsure of where to start.

    Regardless, it feels good to make art. These are from last night. Thanks to this process, I feel ready for my day today.

    Some of these collages will be going to mail club members. Sign up here. It’s $11 a month, you receive a zine, a sticker, and an original artwork. Here is the sticker design for this month:

    Episode 11 of my podcast Living Practice is live here. It can also be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

    Book a tarot art and zine reading Here.

  • Studio updates; lots of book making

    These are all the pages I’ve done so far in my small fruits journal 📔
    The illustration I made during a recent episode of Living Practice
    A fun doodle I did while learning a bit about human design from the gracepilled podcast
    Spiders have been showing up for me a lot lately so I made this spread
    I also made this weird spread
    I made this awesome hand stitched junk journal with ephemera pack. It’s still for sale. Buy it here

  • Seven of Swords

    Read the essay here

  • I burned the little notebook, here are some souvenirs

  • On feeling stuck creatively

    Creativity begets creativity. If you find yourself “stuck,” find another way to get creative…lower the stakes and have fun. It clears the channel.
    “Stuck” is the framework because you’re caught in the loop of expectation and pushing. All it does is crowd you with nonsense. 

    Nothing will flow if you don’t keep the channel open. Creative play is basically inspirational housekeeping.

    My book is now available to purchase

  • The little notebook joy continues

    More pages from the notebook obtained from the record shop. They are created by Half Hazard Press, and I found them in a new (to me) record shop I was perusing. I also got a Uriah Heap album, titled Demons and Wizards. It was a bold choice considering I had never heard of them but for $9 and a title like that who could resist. We recently pulled out the record player tucked away in a closet, in the hopes that more music enjoyment can be had together.

    I am leaning toward this piece as the sticker design for this month’s mail club.

    I am mulling over the idea of how to approach the zine for this month. I am proud of my ability to create a zine each month thus far, as well as figuring out the format to print it within Canva. You can sign up for mail club on my here.

    My poetry collection is taking its final shape, I’m settled at between 30-40 poems. I am looking at setting the container to make the corresponding collages. If anyone has any experience self-publishing a book outside of Amazon’s service with text and full color images, please let me know.

    A new essay for The Tarot Diaries will be on Substack later today.

  • The Tarot Diaries: Temperance

    Read the essay

  • From one of the small collage diaries

  • to hang a basket


    to hang a basket
    Analog collage on
    vintage gardening card
    roughly 7” x 4”
    rounded corners
    available

    Buy on ko-fi

  • to the brim


    to the brim
    collage on vintage gardening card
    roughly 7” x 4”
    rounded corners
    available

    Buy here