Our final woodblock letterpress class at the Dawson Printshop was a couple weeks ago and I never finished my blog posts to show the final results! Better late than never.
I was using the Kelsey parlor press to make notebook covers. I printed them in two colours, first "My Analog" in dark brown then "Blog" in dark red.
Another night, I was waiting to use the proof press and passed the time by using the parlor press again, printing a few more notebook covers that have a silver "ME" on them. I really like this font.
The final project that I did in class was assembling and printing this collage of many woodblock fonts. It is just a jumble, don't try to make it say anything clever, it is just letters A to Z and numbers 1 to 9 and a few punctuation blocks, arranged on the bed and printed all in one colour. I might use these as decorative papers in bookbinding; that's the plan right now, although I haven't done anything with them yet.
Thanks Niko, for a great introduction to letterpress!
The final project that I did in class was assembling and printing this collage of many woodblock fonts. It is just a jumble, don't try to make it say anything clever, it is just letters A to Z and numbers 1 to 9 and a few punctuation blocks, arranged on the bed and printed all in one colour. I might use these as decorative papers in bookbinding; that's the plan right now, although I haven't done anything with them yet.
Thanks Niko, for a great introduction to letterpress!
3 comments:
Lovely results from your class! I would so like to do a similar class myself... I'm saving up for a press but it's going to take a while... I have a teeeny letterpress adaptor for a die-cutting machine, but only limited letterpress plates - need to work out how to make suitable blocks for myself.
I'm very impressed with your notebooks - they look fabulous. I love the idea of a notebook being an "Analog Blog"! I may have to buy some...
The collage is lovely - hope you printed lots!
fabulous - I'm jealous of all that lovely wood type! its hard to come by here in oz....
Thanks Lizzie! I printed about 15 of that collage - that should be enough - by the time I get them all used, I'll be tired of it and ready to take another class and make a better one :)
and thanks Ronnie, we are very lucky to have the Dawson Printshop here!
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