New type
We picked up a few pieces of letterpress equipment yesterday, including a nice heavy tray of this beautiful typeface, most of it never used:
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Up The Mesh Count, session one
Last night we printed with the participants of the first series of Up The Mesh Count workshops. Check out some of the prints they made!
Registration for the June sessions opens at noon on June 1. You can keep up-to-date on what’s happening, and see many more photos from the workshops, by visiting the Up The Mesh Count Facebook page.
A busy printing day
Today was all about the linocuts in the Levigator Press studio. Our studio member Jennie was in pulling editions of a few of her Dashing Critters:
You can find Jennie and her lovely work at the Ford City Night Market, starting on May 5! Check out more of her work here: Jennie Nunweiler Art on Instagram
Later we had a new student in printing an edition from her first lino block:
Meanwhile, I was carving away on this:
Today in the studio
Our co-op student Aiyana finished her first hand bound book today!
Something fun
Our friend Steve brought us a box full of maple scraps in different shapes and sizes that he cut to .918″ on the endgrain so we could make our own letterpress borders and ornaments. This is going to be fun to play with. Here’s the first test print of a few strips bordering a kicky ampersand.
Today in the studio
Cutting up press proofs to make some fun buntings for the shop!
Student reductive woodcut, finished
This student came into the studio and put the last colour on his canoe print:
Today in the studio
Yesterday I finished building a new table for screenprinting, which now sits right next to the drying rack to make it easier to print quickly. Today I christened it by laying down the third colour (black) on these pretty frames, which will soon house greyscale portraits of Surprise Party In The Snow characters:
Block printed t-shirts
Last night we had another session of our block printed t-shirts class. A group of friends (two couples and the 12 year old daughter of one of the couples) signed up and took the class together, which is always a fun time! Here are the amazing shirts they designed:
Student woodcuts
Some progress on our students’ reductive woodcut prints. The campfire image is finished; the difference between the third run (blue) and the final run (black) is subtle, but very much in line with what the student was hoping to achieve. Getting those tiny stars to come through in four runs of printing required perfect registration.
The canoe print has one more run to go before it’s finished. To contain the red colour to just the canoe, our student printed it using a stencil, cheating the reductive method to make that part of the print pop.
