Today is my birthday, and my 19-year-old daughter surprised me with this linotype of Addi with her wolf-dog, Gunther. Addi is the protagonist of my as-yet-to-be-published YA (young-adult) fantasy novel. I was over the moon at seeing this! No, my daughter hasn't had any sort of specific class in how to create linotypes, just got the notion to do it, so looked it up online. She says this is still unfinished; somehow she's carved the lines in a tile, then inked it and pressed it onto a paper. This was a 'sample' of what she's working on, she says. Anyhow, it seems very period, as they used to create images with woodblocks and ink them onto paper for mass distribution. I could bore you with bragging about how innately talented my daughter is--but she has had art classes ever since she was little, and she even just took an art class at UGA. Hopefully you'll be seeing more of Addi and Gunther one day sooner rather than later, but it may be a while, since Tapestry is next in line after Silk!
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