Some private instruction clients came in tonight to print some personalized note cards for holiday gifts. Using our decorative capitals, pictured below, and luscious Cranes Lettra letterpress paper, they printed sets of 20 cards for each of about six family members in two hours! They looked so good I think I’m going to borrow their idea and make some similar notecards for a special person in my own family.
Today we had a private instruction client in the studio making one-of-a-kind letterpress posters for holiday gifts. Here’s one of her lockups on the pressbed. What a great gift idea!
Letterpress and block printed holiday cards. These, along with a few more colours, are now available in our shop!
Screenprinting some hand drawn embroidery patterns onto squares of twill and suiting fabric, for iron-on patches:
Here’s a first proof of a little linocut we’ve been working on this week:
This is the beginning of a fun collaboration I’m doing with Dayna Wagner of The Pottery Cupboard. I did some drawings on a series of still-wet cups and bowls, to which she’ll add underglaze colour. This new line of pottery, along with some fun pieces Dayna is making in collaboration with Nicole Drouillard of Mercantile 519, will be debuted during the Windsor Essex Studio Tour on October 3 and 4. We’re super excited to show it to you!
Alyssa was here in the studio today doing some block printing on fabric. She’s the artist who did the amazing Frida Kahlo woodcut portrait a few weeks back. Today she used a few of our woodblocks and mixed them up with some of her own lino blocks of fun little streetcars!
I printed the third colour, white on both versions, on the print I’m planning to use as a teaching tool for reductive woodcut classes. The background is really starting to look like snow now.
Here’s the progression of colours so far, from left to right: pale gray, then teal, then white on the white paper; white, teal, then white again on the blue paper.
The block has now been all carved out ready to print colour number four, which I hope will finish off the snow so I can switch to the warm brown and red tones in the castoff Tim Hortons cup.
I’ve been plugging away at this amberlith cutting, which is going to be turned into a screenprinted poster that people can colour! It’s a slow process, but gratifying, and the end result is going to be worth it.
Printed tonight! We also have them in graphite and Day-Glo orange.