Category: Letterpress
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Bit by bit
It’s that time again—Jessica and I are hard at work on the next Dead Feminist broadside. Actually, we’ve been hard at work on this piece for months already. I think it’s safe to say that this piece has the most research and labor behind it than any we’ve done so far. There’s a lot at…
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Ink This!
One exhibit might be ending this week, but another is just getting started. On Tuesday night I went to the opening for Ink This!, a new exhibit of contemporary Northwest print arts at the Tacoma Art Museum. The place was completely packed—both in the lecture space and in the common areas. I spent so much…
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Summer sampler
I stopped by the Collins Memorial Library this week to see the new Puget Sound Book Artists exhibition, and look what’s in the show! If you haven’t had a chance to see my Mnemonic Sampler abecedary in person yet, the PSBA folks have it beautifully displayed in one of the wall cases. (The display is…
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The miracle worker
This is my friend Carl. He’s a wood engraver extraordinaire— —and his West Seattle letterpress studio is a thing of beauty. He does lovely, painstaking work (those are his engravings on the wall there), and he runs a tight ship at that studio of his. Which is why my friend Mary-Alice called on Carl when…
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Making lemonade
Photo by Jessica Spring Jessica has been churning out a crop of lemonade journals lately, including some fun new ones from the outtakes of our Focal Point print. Look for them soon in the shop!
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Making the cut
Much as I’d love them to be done by now, there’s still about a zillion flats to be cut for my Local Conditions book. I can’t do them all in one go—all that hand-Xacto-knifing is really hard on your hands. So I fit the cutting in wherever I can, whenever I need a break from…
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Water off a goose’s back
Don’t be distracted by Ric’s smile—see the puddles everywhere? See the winter gear people are wearing? Sunday was the craziest Wayzgoose yet, hands down. That’s because we had both the biggest crowd ever and the worst weather imaginable. So that smile is one of triumph: getting a decent steamroller print that day required beating some…
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Done and dusted
The carving is done, and we can’t wait to show you the finished product. See you at the Wayzgoose on Sunday!
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Version 10.0
Here we are: year ten. Since the time Jessica Spring founded the Tacoma Wayzgoose all those years ago, it’s become one heckuva beast—and a veritable Tacoma institution. So here are a few sneak peeks of the giant linoleum block Jessica and I are carving—and we’ll reveal all on Sunday: 10th Annual Tacoma Wayzgoose Sunday, April…
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Focal Point
If you earn your living by drawing pictures, you have to spend a lot of time with your head down and your eyes on your paper. Yet at this time of year, with spring coming along fast (at least in the Northwest…), life hurries by at a frantic pace. I hate the idea of missing…