Kraftwork Tomorrow Night

Kraftwork is a monthly market featuring Atlanta's finest indie artists and crafters. It takes place the first Thursday of the month from 7-10pm. The next market is tomorrow December 4th and will be a great place to pick up holiday gifts!

Young Blood Gallery is located at 636 N. Highland Ave, Atlanta, GA.

Check out ICE Atlanta for more details.

Indie Craft Experience This Saturday

Just a reminder that the Indie Craft Experience is this Saturday! I will be setting up again this year for my second holiday show and will have lots of my latest work available for early holiday shopping. Hope to see you there!

Latest Print in Fun Food Series

This is my latest (and last) print in my fair/fun food series. I have chosen to honor the Corn Dog! You can see it this weekend at the Indie Craft Experience Holiday Spectacular in Atlanta, and I also have it for sale here in my Etsy shop.

Everyone loves a corn dog!

Indie Craft Experience Holiday Shopping Spectacular

It's hard to believe but next Saturay November 15th from 11-6 is the Indie Craft Experience Holiday Shopping Spectacular in Atlanta. It seems like we just had their summer show and now the holidays are almost here. I will be there again this time with some new prints and journals -- I am working on the final print in my food series and will have some pictures of it soon!

Check out the ICE Atlanta website for details and directions for the show. Hope to see you there!

Be Back Soon

Haven't had much time for printing lately, I've been visiting in Western Massachusetts. This picture was taken on a spectacular weekend from the top of Mount Sugarloaf in the Sunderland/Deerfield area. I have been enjoying real autumn weather as opposed to the extra-long summer we get in Atlanta.

I am working on another print for my food series, and I'll have more craft show news when I return next week!

Kraftwork Tomorrow at Young Blood Gallery

Kraftwork is a monthly market featuring Atlanta's finest indie artists and crafters. It takes place the first Thursday of the month from 7-10pm. The next market is tomorrow October 2nd!

I had a great time at September's event and am looking forward to this one.

Young Blood Gallery is located at 636 N. Highland Ave, Atlanta, GA.

Check out ICE Atlanta for more details.

Bicycle Print Journal/Notebook

As promised here is a look at some new hardbound journals that were printed with my latest bicycle design. These are available now in limited quantities at my Etsy shop. I am unfortunately running out of these neat little notebooks and I don't have a supplier for them anymore! They are a great alternative to Moleskines.

Skateboard and Bicycle Prints

Here are some quick prints I did using soft rubber stamp material. A little different style from what I usually do but I thought they turned out well. I also used the carvings to decorate some new hard bound notebooks. These were good sellers at this week's Kraftwork at Young Blood gallery, and I'll be posting pictures of those soon too. I don't have any more skateboard notebooks but I have a few bicycle ones left that I'll have to list on Etsy. The skateboard print is already listed for sale.

Printmakers of Etsy Interview

I was interviewed by artbear for the Printmakers of Etsy Blog and the interview is up now. It was a pleasure to be interviewed by artbear, she asked a lot of great questions that made me think a lot about my art and my process. Take a look!

Kraftwork Resumes at Young Blood Gallery

Kraftwork is a monthly market featuring Atlanta's finest indie artists and crafters. It takes place the first Thursday of the month from 7-10pm. The next market is this Thursday, September 4th!

pspress will be in attendance with new letterpress prints available as well as new hard bound journal designs. See you Thursday!

Young Blood Gallery is located at 636 N. Highland Ave, Atlanta, GA.

Check out ICE Atlanta for more details.

Completed Ice Cream Print

I've completed my ice cream print and it is now available in my Etsy shop. I prefer this one to the earlier popcorn one, maybe because I prefer eating ice cream to popcorn! The blue ink I used for this one has a nice shine to it, alhough it isn't picked up in the pictures. I'm trying to decide what food will be next in the series -- I can't decide between hot dogs and cotton candy.

Trunkt Portfolio

I was accepted to Trunkt, take a look at my
Portfolio!

It currently features items already available in my Etsy shop.

Trunkt is a design website that hosts the portfolios of many wonderful artists, designers and entrepreneurs.

New Ice Cream Test Print

Here's the test print from my latest food related theme. I pulled a quick print with water based ink asa shown above. I need to make the "fudge" over the the top of the ice cream a bit more detailed, then I'll be ready for a real run!

New Print in Progress

I've decided to continue on with a fair/kids food related theme after my popcorn print. Next in line is ice cream! Here is a a look at how it's going so far. This one is also large at 12"x 18".

Goodies at Young Blood Gallery

Just wanted to let you know that I know have some goodies at Young Blood Gallery in Atlanta at its new happening location (636 North Highland Ave). If you haven't checked it out their expanded space is awesome! Here are some samples of the items in stock now:

Popcorn Prints

Here are some finished Popcorn prints. I tried several different backgrounds -- a yellow version, green version, and a blue version with a blue to green background fade. I prefer the yellow for its brightness, but I do like the blue fade too. These will be in my Etsy shop soon.

Popcorn Test Print

I've been working on a larger print now that I have some time to get back to carving. This is a 12"x18" block that I just finished. I don't know if she remembers, but when Shona sent me some prints a while back she used a popcorn box as some extra packing material. I liked it so much I saved it and this is what came out of the inspiration!

I am planning on making it a two color print, and having a solid background color behind this, although if that doesn't look good I'll probably end up carving another block to fill in some combination of the stripes or letters. I just tested it out with some old black water based ink I had lying around. I am thinking yelow and blue and yellow and red for color combinations -- I hope to do a couple different variations.

Flickr Flickr Flickr

Just a word of warning if you want to change your Flickr identity -- it's pretty difficult! Once you pick a url you cannot create a new one and shift the existing pictures over. I decided to bite the bullet and manually move my pictures over to my new account, because I'm a glutton for punishment. I left a few pictures up under my old papastudios account that I want to remain linked to existing groups, but otherwise everything else has been moved to my new pspress account at

www.flickr.com/photos/pspress

Sorry to report that I don't really have anything new up there, but I hope to start working on some new prints soon, now that I have some more free time coming up in July.

Blog On The Move

I have completed my blog name change, so if you are reading this you have successfully navigated over to my new PS Press blog, formerly known as Papa Studios Fine Prints!

This new URL is http://psletterpress.blogspot.com. Please update your links accordingly!

Name Change!

After some consideration I've decided to change my press name from Papa Studios Fine Prints (which is way too long) to PS Press. This avoids confusion with the other Papa Studios business lines and allows me to have a much shorter and easier to remember name! I have some new banners for the site, and will be switching over the blog URL to reflect the name change in the near future. I'll also be moving my Etsy shop from http://papastudios.etsy.com to http://pspress.etsy.com gradually as things move out of the shop.

Indie Craft Experience Lucky #7 Atlanta Craft Show

Here are some pictures of the Indie Craft Experience Lucky #7 show held this past weekend in Atlanta. The weather was brutally hot and I'm sure kept some people away but it was a good experience for my first outdoor show!

Surprisingly again my block print notebooks were hot sellers at the show, which is in contrast to Etsy where I sell more prints and cards. Go figure...

Also, on an "it's a small world" note, my booth neighbor Breanna (I didn't get a website she may have) was the same as at the ICE Holiday Show. And as I found out between last year's show and this one she is a friend of Shona at LALA dex press. It is amazing that they put us together both times, not to mention that we know someone in common. Anyway, it was great to have her next door with her wonderful fiber work!

Looking forward to the ICE Holiday show with some cooler temperatures...

New Big Rig Print

What with working on a more complicated two color print and being away for a while I have not had much printmaking work to post. Here is the latest, an autobiographical two color print. I tried to challenge myself with the design on this one and I like the direction it went in. I am really satisfied with how the semi truck came out, and I learned a lot by trying to move away from printing in more simple blocks of color. Here are a few pictures of the fresh prints:









You can find this print and see my other work on Saturday at the Indie Craft Exprience Lucky #7 in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park. This should be a fun event!

Indie Craft Experience Summer Event

I have been accepted to the Indie Craft Exprience Summer Event this year in Centennial Olympic Park. I was very happy with the ICE Holiday show and am looking forward to this one!

Look What I Got in the Mail!

I just got this selection of cards from my blog friend Shona at LALA dex press (who I hope to meet in person someday)! We are trading prints and I just wanted to share the wonderful batch I received. I had sent out a copy of my Pee Wee print along with some other goodies but they got lost in the mail so I'll be sending out a replacement soon, unless they happen to turn up!

More Block Print Journals for Spring

I've done some more printing on this stash of hard bound Moleskine-like notebooks/journals that I have. I came up with some quick abstract designs that I carved in the soft rubber stamp material Speedball has. It is nice for quick designs, although I don't like to use it all the time. These are a little different for me but I like how they turned out. The blue abstract branches notebook is now in my Etsy shop, with others to follow.

Oregon Ink Spot Exchange Print

This is the latest print I've been working on -- its a two color linocut for the Oregon Ink Spot Print Exchange. It is based on a vintage kitchen wares advertisement that had nothing to do originally with hot dogs.

Off Topic: Knitting

I am currently working on a print for the Oregon Ink Spot Print Exchange, I hope to have results to show soon. In the meantime, here is my second ever official scarf that I knitted last month. I gave it to my mother so I took some pictures for posterity:



It's just a big ol' ribbed scarf, nothing fancy!

On another (on-topic) subject), the Atlanta Craft Mafia of which I am a "made" member had a great Craft Happy Hour last night in East Atlanta that was open to all area crafters. It was a great time and I met some really nice people. I think they are planning more events like this so check out their website if you are in the Atlanta area!

Etsy Letterpress Treasury

Without really meaning to, I was browsing around the Etsy Treasury tonight and was able to snag one! Take a look, it features some of my Letterpress Heroes.

Postcard Print Echange Final Version

Well I scrapped the original background I showed earlier in favor of this one block print with a multicolored inking effect. This is for the 7th Annual University Print Society Postcard Print Exchange. This year’s theme is "BOGO: Buy One Get One Free".

Postcard Exchange Print in Progress

I discovered the 7th Annual University Print Society Postcard Print Exchange in time to participate this year. The theme of this exchange is "BOGO: Buy One Get One Free". This is the background, and I carved a linocut of some hamburgers that will be going on top of all this. I can't wait to see the different prints I receive from this!

Latest Pee Wee Print

I decided to change the colors on the Pee Wee print I did previously. I also moved the quote up to the top -- changing the size of it made too much overlap in the middle I thought. I may do some in other colors later but I will be listing this in my Etsy shop soon!

Pee Wee Test Print #2

I wasn't going to post this yet as it needs some re-work but I thought my fellow Pee Wee Herman appreciator Shona at LALA Dex Press would enjoy seeing it.

I need to figure out a better font for the quote in blue -- the classroom I did this at had a good selection of lead type that I was eager to use, but I think I need to go even bigger with it. I may also play around with the color choices too...

Pee Wee Test Print

Here's a test print of a linocut background I'm using in a Pee Wee Herman themed broadside. I am taking a class to get more familiar with hand set type and using a platen press -- very fun! This is the background for a piece I'm doing that will use the platen press for the other layers. This was printed using a Vandercook.

Prints featured in eat.shop Atlanta guide!

While browsing at my local bookstore, I happened upon a copy of "eat.shop atlanta", which is billed as "the indispensable guide to inspired, locally owned eating and shopping establishments". Looking through it I found a page for Young Blood Gallery, where I have some of my items in stock. Lo and behold in the listing was a picture of my motel print display and a mention in the "covet" section for things to buy. I don't know the authors of this book, but thanks a bunch!

Unfortunately, Young Blood Gallery is now in the process of moving to a large space, but in the meantime you can purchase the prints found in "eat.shop atlanta" at the Papa Studios Online Store.

Knitting Instead of Printing

Here's a picture of my latest project, my first ever scarf that actually turned out ok. I tried to knit about 10 years ago and it didn't turn out well so we won't count that one. I tried to get Dutch the Boston terrier to pose with the scarf on but that didn't work out so we compromised and he sat by the scarf. My friend Lynne helped me get started again, and after her great instruction I was off and running. I am addicted now...

New Block Print Journals

Here are some new block print journals I've been working on, soon to be in my Etsy Shop. The blocks were carved with soft rubber stamp material instead of the usual linoleum that I carve, because these journals are hardbound and won't fit through my press. I printed first in special white ink that will stick to the vinyl journal cover, then in silver over the white to create a layered look.

These are hard-bound journals similar to Moleskines in that they have an elastic closure, and a convenient pocket on the inside. I'll be posting them to Etsy soon!

Broadside Featured as Related Item on Etsy Storque Valentine's Article

I was selected as a Related Item on the Etsy Storque article "Etsy Finds: Will You Be My Valentine?"

It's always appreciated when someone links to your work! If you are interested, check out my "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Letterpress Broadside.