My Calendars Through The Years
After giving and receiving moon calendars for years, in 2017 I decided to make my own. Take a ride through memory lane with to see how my calendars have evolved through the years!
2018 - My First Year!
After a Thanksgiving conversation with family about moon calendars, I thought - I could make those! I came home and spent the next many hours creating these. I painted the backgrounds and drew each moon. It was a satisfying experience but very challenging!
2019
After individual months I missed the visual impact of seeing the whole year and the patterns that appear across the months. I made individual stamps for each phase which made the process much more enjoyable - however getting it printed was not. Turns out scanning and printing such a large poster was quite challenging.
2020
After the printing challenges for the previous year I went back to the original month design. This year was a combination of stamping the moons and hand drawing individual designs for each month.
2021
I went back to more color! Each month was a different unique color I painted before stamping and hand drawing the design.
2022
I wanted to lean into the print making process and explore making the whole design with a linocut. I carved unique designs for each month and then printed each month. I loved the texture the printing created!
2023
I wanted to explore options as many folks were still appreciating the colored backgrounds from 2021. I did the same format as the year before and leaned into theme for the centers - trees of New Hampshire.
2024
After years of creating one original, scanning, editing, and getting prints made I decided to take the plunge to print them all myself. This required carving each month as a complete block and printing over 500+ pages. It was more work but I appreciated getting to do it all myself! I liked the theme for designs and decided to do vegetables.
2025
I really liked the process of printing all the calendars myself so I kept at it! I chose moths of NH as the center theme.
2026
After a busy Fall I simplified the format a little to make it quicker to carve! The theme was constellations, ones that can be seen in the northern hemisphere and how they will be oriented in the sky that month.
