Holiday Card

November 19, 2011

Blockprint

3"x5"

Made 51 greeting cards for my annual holiday mailing this weekend.  Printed them on two different colors of a hand-made paper, with this gray color being my favorite over a slightly darker blue.  Used my antique Line-O-Scribe letterpress machine and had the entire edition printed and cleaned up in less than two hours.  Thank you antique technology!

Tunk Mountain Proof

November 5. 2011

Drypoint with Monotype

5"x7"

Pulled another proof off of this plate with a blue monotype underneath at a Drypoint Printmaking workshop at Studio Place Arts in Barre this weekend.

December

November 1, 2011

2-plate block print

5"x3"

Pulled this proof Tuesday night and am very pleased with the result.  Plan to pull a small edition of 20 in four stages.  I will print the first five a lighter version of this blue and add more pigment as I print the four stages of color saturation.  With a little luck I will hand-sewn a 3 or four print, square grid with color gadation going from darka t the top to light at the bottom.  Has some potential...