Letterpress Love
After years and years of learning various forms of printmaking, I finally took a letterpress class at the Independent Publishing Resource Center on Thursday. I am, of course, completely enamored with the letterpress process already, and will be taking another IPRC class in letterpress poster printing later this week. There’s something about having a century-old hunk of cast iron under your control that just feels so much more heartwarming than say dragging a squeegee across a screen, not that I don’t still adore screenprinting. Anyways, everyone in class got to typeset and print a small saying and/or image, and here is mine. They are about the size of business cards in real life, printed in reflex blue on gold and recycled brown cardstock. Fun fun fun.
I’ve been working at a personal goal to fill my Etsy shop with 50 items before the end of November and promote it more to see if I can increase my views and sales, and it is paying off. I’m up to 48 items already and my Whoa Dang! t-shirt was featured on Alexander’s Designs blog this week. Go check it out and remember to support your local independent artists!
Also, check out this video. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a stop motion mural animation by Mike Nowland and Carson Ting, but what’s super rad is what happens right around 1:10. That dude totally looks familiar.
