My letterpress studio class is over for the spring, so I thought I'd post the work I did in it here. Supposedly now that I've been trained in on the Vandercook press I'll be able to use it in my general shop access, which starts again in June. But for now this is what I have.
I did something of a fractured song lyric theme for these. My instructor started us out with song lyrics as a theme, and I just went with it.
Here's one maybe the whales will like:
The images aren't made on the letterpress; they taught me how to do a digital image through a photopolymer relief process, but since I'm already a silk screen printer, I just continued to use screen for that. It's easier, less time-consuming, and less expensive than polymer.
The cowboy to the right is the first print I made, followed by the dugong and the whale. All of the images started as public-domain work: the cowboy was a 19th-century photograph, the dugong a John Edward Gray illustration from the 1830s, and the whale an Edo-period Japanese illustration. A little bit of Photoshop work made them suitable for being part of my prints.
The cowboy is 3"x5," the Dugong 4"x4," and the whale 8.5"x11." All are available in limited editions for purchase if you're interested.