The Styles
One Lake in Nine Styles
Lake Charlevoix in each of them, with a sample pin on the south arm. Open any one to read it up close, then pick yours in the studio and every choice redraws.
Open the large editionBathymetric
The water darkens with every contour the state surveyed, down to the deep hole.
Clear Water • Glacial • Night Swim
Open the large editionChart
Pale water, the shallows tinted, every contour marked with its depth: the chart that lives in the boat.
Chart • Slate
Open the large editionContour
Nothing but lines: the depth under the water, the lie of the land round it.
Paper • Depths
Open the large editionSurvey
The shoreline and every contour in one ink, the way a surveyor's sheet comes off the table.
Ink • Blueprint
Open the large editionLinocut
The water one solid ink, and every contour cut out of it, the way a block print is made.
Ink on Paper • Paper on Ink
Open the large editionGilt
Gold lines on black or navy: the lake at night from the end of the dock.
Black & Gold • Navy & Gold
Open the large editionWatercolour
Layered washes that pool where the water is deepest, and a cool shadow on the north shore.
Lake • Dusk
Open the large editionRelief
The ridges and hollows round the lake standing out in the last light of the day.
Morning • Evening • Night
Open the large editionOblique
The lake lying in its ground as you see it coming over the last hill, the hills taller than life.
Morning • Night
Fourteen Tones
Your pin prints in one tone. Each style offers only the tones you can still find from across the room, and on the darkest grounds that leaves fewer than eight; the table shows which. How a tone is chosen.
| Style | Ground | Pin tones offered | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bathymetric | Clear Water | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Bathymetric | Glacial | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Bathymetric | Night Swim | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Chart | Chart | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Chart | Slate | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Contour | Paper | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Contour | Depths | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Survey | Ink | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Survey | Blueprint | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Linocut | Ink on Paper | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Linocut | Paper on Ink | VermilionSaffronGoldTealLavenderPink | 6 of 14 |
| Gilt | Black & Gold | VermilionSaffronGoldTealLavenderPink | 6 of 14 |
| Gilt | Navy & Gold | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Watercolour | Lake | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Watercolour | Dusk | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | Morning | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | Evening | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | Night | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Oblique | Morning | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Oblique | Night | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |