custom order completed!

Here's a picture of the completed custom sketchbook/notebook order I've been working on for a while! I think this was a really unique commission, and I'm really happy with how the turned out.

Have a happy 4th!

Vandercook Party!

You have to visit this post from the Vanderblog of some employee photos from Vandercook & Sons, makers of these fine presses. The photos were posted courtesy of Fritz Klinke/NA Graphics.

I want to know what the woman with the according was doing at the party!

more custom order details & progress

Here is a picture of the first color I've printed for the custom sketchbook order I'm working on. Next will be the light blue color. As I said in my last post, its a two color print made from linoleum blocks. I can't wait for them to be finished!

custom order details!

After some trials and tribulations, the commission I've been working on is finally proceeding! It's a limited edition hand-printed run of 50 signed and numbered sketchbooks. It's a two color print done solely on linoleum blocks. The sketchbooks have been ordered and should be here next week.

Here's a closer look at the sample I produced and more details:

Plaid Sketchbooks Move Forward

Bird card linocut on the vandercook -- printing brown

Thought I would post a little about my press. It's a Vandercook SP15 and this is a picture of the bird card I've been working on. Here the press is inked up in brown and I'm ready to print from the linocuts I completed last week:

And here is the second color being printed. Just a small block for the bird, the wire the bird is sitting on will remain the color of the card:

I'll post a picture of the completed card tomorrow!

custom order, no time to post

I've been working on both a custom order and a website recently (two separate new customers), so I haven't had much time to post lately. I thought instead I'd post a picture of one of my favorite motels. This was taken back in 2001 when my husband and I took a month off to take a road trip around the US. We covered over 8000 miles, and went from Massachusetts to Tennessee, out to Arizona, up California to Seattle, then east through Colorado and the midwest, and finally back to Massachusetts. This picture was taken in Kingman, AZ on Route 66. This is the motel that Timothy McVeigh stayed at the night before he bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City. We did not know it at the time we took the picture.

periodic table print project -- cadmium completed!

I've finally completed my cadmium print for the Periodic Table Print Project. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I printed on both heavy white paper and this brown card stock, but I think the brown color is better. The white paper I used had too rough of a texture and it grayed out the black a little too much for me. If you are interested in seeing the progress of this project, check out the flikr group for this project.