e bond

repost from @pressingmattersmag : Bay Area-based creative e bond aka @eisroughdraft finds joy in juxtaposition. Her infectious passion for process and printmaking’s endless possibilities find her working in a place where ideas and conversations evolve and never come to an end. “Making things with my hands is how I understand myself within the greater world, and it’s a daily process,” she says. Read her article ‘Never-ending Stories’ in Issue 33, out now - see link in bio. #printmaking #fabricprint #textileprint #surfacepatterndesign #gelplateprinting #monoprint

my @uppercasemag issue no. 57 has arrived & wow. it’s truly beautiful! 🌞 As I was trying to take photographs, I kept being distracted by so many beautiful designs in the magazine. (I see you, @blackpepperpaperieco 😉) The surface design guide is truly overflowing with talent. . So if you can, grab one of these because there are hundreds of amazing artists being featured— of course including meeeee and @annamariahorner , the perfect cover star for any issue about surface design. . Oh and a tip for anybody out there waiting for my third fabric line, RAVEL, to drop—-there are some sneak peeks all up in my spreads. 👀 (slide 2 is a gorgeous full-page detail of two monoprints from the new collection, plus a few more hidden in there… . big thank YOU to Janine for the gorgeous design of the article (my jaded little designer heart feels so lucky to be seen by you) and Joy, for the words that make me make sense to myself. Flipping through my article truly feels like me, and that’s all I ever want (even my unruly, cluttered studio) xoeb . #surfacedesign #uppercasemag

Hey friends—-Hope you can use a little more color & texture in your life today because COUNTER is here! . COUNTER is the fifth fabric collection I have coming out with @freespiritfabrics and I’m so excited about this one because it celebrates a lot of the letterpress printing work I did on a two week residency last year at @hamiltonwoodtype in Wisconsin. . Here’s a first look at the fabric along with the inspiration statement. And as the weeks go on I can’t wait to also share with you some of the one-of-a-kind letterpress prints that inspired the patterns. xoeb . Inspiration statement below: 
The collection COUNTER celebrates the space in and around letterforms: open or closed, narrow or wide. In typography, a counter is the actual area of a letter entirely or partially enclosed by a letterform or symbol. Imagine the ‘hole’ in the middle of a beautiful O or the half-circle area at the top of a lowercase e. What is that area, other than a necessary part of the whole; not empty or negative, but instead infinite and integral to understanding? . The collection of letterpress prints that began the idea for COUNTER was made during a two-week residency at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2024. Hamilton houses 1.5 million pieces of wood type and is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production, and printing of wood type. At Hamilton, I concentrated on printing some of the larger wooden letterforms in the collection (some more than 3 feet tall). It was such a dream to have the time and opportunity to print with their historic type collection to make art that celebrates the beauty of this strange, wonderful grouping of shapes we call an alphabet. COUNTER follows in the footsteps of my past collections GLYPHS, ROOT, and RAVEL, which experiment and examine aspects of the written word. . Counter hits stores in November but the buying time for stores is now. Check out FreeSpirit online if you want to order COUNTER. & link in bio

It’s already Day 6 of Drawing Disrupted, we are halfway through. If you’ve started taking the class this month let me know how it’s going below. And if you haven’t & need a Creativebug subscription, they are having a birthday sale this week, $25 for a 12 month subscription. Let me know how the drawing, the creativity, the life living—-how all of it is going. Link in my bio for the class & the sale.

I’ve got a small showing of letterpress monotypes up at @sfbayquilts for the month of May. They are fun to see in conjunction with the fabric collections that were born from them (COUNTER & PUNC*T). Check them out if you are local. Reception is 5/17 from 1-3 PM. xoeb . Language Studies On View: 5/1-5/31 Bay Quilts 5327 Jacuzzi St Suite 3-C Richmond, CA ps thanks @erinmwheeler for helping me hang the work. It always makes me 🤯 and you just get ‘er done. 👊🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾 #letterpress #woodtype #typography #COUNTERFabric #PUNCTfabric

Hey y’all, today I sent out the May loveletter (aka newsletter) which was about my collaboration with @creativebug over the years and the launch of my new 15 day class, Drawing Disrupted. I thought I would share some of that here as well. Here’s a lil’ excerpt of what I wrote to my email friends about open spaces, uncertainty and trying to be remain surprised by my own work after so many years in the game… ‘May is here and with it comes my new class, Drawing Disrupted — taught in collaboration with my longtime pals over at Creativebug. The idea for this class has been on my mind for a long time, mainly because I needed to take the class much more than I needed to make it. After all, what did the master Toni Morrison say, “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” A little history: I started art school at 14 and basically never left, which means this year will be 38 years of actively practicing, thinking, grappling with, and being a living artist in the world. When you spend almost 40 years in one lane of study you definitely gather up some skills, but you also start to deeply understand how those skills can become blocks & shortcuts to repetitive thinking. One thing I know about myself is I don’t want to have the answer to something before I begin the process. I desperately want to hold onto the ability to surprise myself in the work, and in this life….’ It goes on & on in the newsletter (it’s the one place I don’t have to be brief & I like it, 😂) but swipe through the slidey things to see what else is available from me on Creativebug (links are always on my website workshop page, because the classes never expire). If you are either a current Cbug subscriber and want to watch the class or not a member and want to purchase the single class, you can use this link: tidd.ly/4sG2mVS Or if you want to become a Creativebug member—it’s a good time to join—there are having a birthday sale right now, here’s a link from meeeee: tidd.ly/4dm27tK ebondwork.com/workshops xoeb

🤯 Expand how you see, think, and create in e bond ‘s NEW class, DRAWING DISRUPTED. ✏️ Through 15 inventive drawing prompts, e (@eisroughdraft ) focuses on the “how” of making as much as the “what,” gently disrupting familiar patterns and opening new pathways into your process. You’ll experiment with disappearing drawings, asemic writing, drawing with two hands, and unexpected materials. Instead of chasing a polished result, e invites you to ask: How can we look differently? How can we pay closer attention? Some experiments may surprise you, some may feel a little uncomfortable, but all are designed to get you out of your head and onto the page. 🔗 on our shop grid to start today’s prompt!

THIS SUNDAY May 3rd @mightymightystudio MONOPRINTING USING GELLI PLATES: THE NATURE EDITION It’s a such a fun, experimental class. Come along, bring handfuls of weeds and grasses, buds and flowers, leaves and branches. Almost anything will make an interesting print. Shown above: Monoprint made from wild fennel that is growing on the sidewalk by my house. Smells great, prints even better 😉!

hey! My web shop is officially re-stocked 🥰. I must admit quite a few things are sold through because email subscribers get first dibs but there are still so many handmade book beauties left & of course COUNTER fabric and collage kits! xoeb

✨new collection of handmade books coming this week to my shop. ✨ The books are always one-of-a-kinds, so get on the mailing list to know when the collection goes live. Sign up on my homepage: ebondwork.com. xoeb

i’m making a bunch of these cute lil mini books for my web shop update next week and what’s been really fun to see is how PUNC*T fabrics look when heavily cropped into. I love finding the smaller compositions inside the larger patterns. shapes + color = 💗💗💗. PUNC*T in stores/shops in May. COUNTER in stores/shops now. IMPRINT is available for shops to order. Link in Bio for most of all the things.

monday afternoon: procrastinating a new stencil design project by playing with my current stencil design project. 🤓 #stencilgirlproducts #stencilgirlproductsdesigner## #monoprinting