Owl

I get to create my first letterpress print soon! I've always wanted to do both letterpress and screen printing, but somehow never have. My brother and sister-in-law Peter and Heather Bergman, are both letterpress printers and I'm going to visit to make a set of 5x7 linocuts with handset type in a couple of weeks! If you get a chance, read about The Letterpress Depot, a public printing and workshop space they are helping to set up in Englewood, Colorado.

I need to carve the image for my 2 color print on type-high blocks so they will be the same height as the hand set metal type. I haven't gotten the blocks in the mail yet, but I have the drawing done and carving the image shouldn't take long.

I took this sketchbook page from my 100 Animals project as a starting point. I love the quote, but I wanted to use my own words.

This is what I came up with. I'm going to use black and silver ink on light blue paper. I'm so excited! I'll have photos to show later and some prints to give away. Stay tuned!