block printing

This Paperlicious Week

August 14, 2010

…my dining room table eagerly volunteered to assist with the drying portion of the invitation reply card printing process, while the office/studio continues to undergo a lengthy organization and neatification improvement project. Special thanks also to the living room floor.

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Skoonberg

December 22, 2009

Oh! Hello there. It seems that Christmas is closing in fast, in case you – like me – hadn’t noticed. This past weekend I actually achieved the sending of a small batch of handmade Christmas cards; though the big story really is that Christmas cards even made it from my hands into envelopes with stamps and addresses and stuff, and [...]

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SoMd Ink

September 5, 2009

I’ve been quietly and steadily working on some new print designs for a few weeks now. Today I pulled the first proof! I put it behind a black mat to get a better idea of what the finished print might look like. The idea came from wanting to play with the quality of light linocuts [...]

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The big 3-0

May 24, 2009

Happy birthday to an excellent production assistant, a brilliant common sense consultant, and a spectacular friend.

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Oh snap!

May 13, 2009

When I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, Keith told me that (besides a peach pie and a viewing of Wolverine) all he wanted from me was to print something, preferably using my new etching press. So from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon I had managed to go from design on paper, to [...]

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Pressed

March 24, 2009

I’m down to the last month or so of my master’s thesis project, and so until my semester ends on May 3, there’s nothing, nothing I tell you, coming out of this lady’s studio. But I did get something new. It’s a small etching press: a Blick Econo Etch Model II. Nothing fancy, nothing fancy [...]

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