I spent a happy couple of hours at Swansea Print Workshop this afternoon, experimenting with the vintage wooden typefaces to design my next little experiment in letterpress. I had more or less settled on this one but then I couldn’t find any quoins to hold it together, so I’ll have to go back to finishContinue reading “Setting The Type.”
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#Caturday: The Golden One.
It’s #Caturday Saturday once again and I’ve been playing with a picture of Sparta Puss in Adobe Photoshop. I put the photo through a Coloured Pencil filter and then cranked up the Saturation to create this golden effect.
Friday Night at the Patti.
Husb and I went to a gig last night, The Beat at the Patti Pavilion, a beautiful old venue on the seafront that had put on gigs all through the 1970s. Friday nights at the Patti are a fond memory of my youth and I saw some wonderful bands there. The gigs have been resumedContinue reading “Friday Night at the Patti.”
Double Vision.
I tried this neat trick with the two letterpress pieces I did recently at Swansea Print Workshop. After the first print, I moved the paper slightly and put it back through the press and it picked up the ghost from the remaining ink on the wooden blocks.
Grrrr!!
I played around with Letterpress again at Swansea Print Workshop this week. Last week I did a piece using Intaglio Printmaker’s relief inks and this week tried out Cranfield Caligo Safewash, both times using a rainbow roll. I found little to choose between them, to be honest. The Safewash is slightly runnier and less stickyContinue reading “Grrrr!!”
#Caturday …
It’s #Caturday / Saturday again and here she is, Sparta Puss, lounging on a comfy blanket surrounded by cushions. What a life! I put the image through Adobe Photoshop using a Watercolour filter.
Rainbow Type.
I printed the type form I put together at the weekend, using a rainbow roll of Pthalo Green and Rhodamine Red oil-based relief inks. I printed with Swansea Print Workshop‘s Columbian Press onto Kent paper. I love the way the well-worn vintage letters have dints and dimples and rough areas that add to the characterContinue reading “Rainbow Type.”
Back Of The Head.
I often sketch when I sit behind people in audiences, but rarely get to draw such a magnificent pair of ears.
Listening Heads: 2.
Here’s another scribble I made when Husb and I went to a political panel event in Penybont ar Ogwr / Bridgend the other evening. I sketched this audience member and his haircut with a ballpoint pen into my leather-bound A5 sketchbook.
If You Knows, You Knows.
A print from antique wooden typeface reading FAFO in a horizontal line with a question mark and exclamation mark lying horizontally beneath.
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