Media: Gouache, ink and gold leaf on Canson Mi-Teintes
Script: Blackletter inspired by Rudolf Koch’s Deutsche Schrift typeface,
Dimensions: 12.6″ x 10” (32cm x 26cm)
Source: The Hair Flap, 2024, by Michael R Burch.
https://michaelrburch.substack.com/p/trumping-and-tromping-trumpon-search
Viral Donald, 2024, by Michael R. Burch.
Gouache, Dr. Martin’s Bleedproof White and gold leaf on Canson Mi-Teintes.
14.5″ x 10” (37cm x 26cm)
29 Aug 2026
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Listen with the will to learn, Unarine Ramaru.
For the Heart to Heart project calendar.
Décoration lifted from Rudolf Koch’s manuscript the Gospel of Saint Luke at the Klingspor Institute, Offenbach.
2025 Holiday Card
The image is from The Virgin and Child Seated by a Tree, 1513, by Albrecht Dürer, courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum. Everybody Loves My Baby is a popular and jazz standard song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924, with lyrics by Jack Palmer.
Blackletter calligraphy by Raoul Martinez
After scanning and cleaning up the calligraphy, I composed my holiday card using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Polymer letterpress plate by Crown Flexo Graphics, Antioch
Printed on white BFK Rives 270 gsm paper with Western 4/D Panther Black ink at Grendl Löfkvist’s studio in Oakland.
Printer: Vandercook SP15 test press
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A demo piece for my Beginning Textura class.
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In Naked Lunch, William Burroughs tells the story of a man who let his asshole take control of his body, eventually leading to his demise. This piece expresses my concern about the incompetence of our political leaders and the devastating consequences of their decisions.
You can see the complete piece at Kalligraphia, the triennial exhibit by Friends of Calligraphy. The exhibit is at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch until August 31st.
Happy birthday, Walt Whitman!
Born May 31, 1819
From the Calamus cluster of Leaves of Grass, 1891, by Walt Whitman
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From Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, 1924, by Pablo Neruda.
Published in 1924, this collection of poems, Neruda’s first and most well-known, made a name for him. It created a stir because of its eroticism, all the more surprising given that Neruda was only 19 at the time.
Translation of the first 4 lines by Michael R. Burch. Translation of the remaining lines by me:
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water!
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp lovingly
like a cornucopia, every day, with ecstatic hands. You’ve looked like no one since I’ve loved you.
Let me lay you among yellow garlands.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the southern stars? Ah, let me remember you as you were then, when you did not yet exist.
The power of the people is greater than the people in power.
From the record-breaking Senate speech that Cory Booker made on April 1, 2025.
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