We fulfilled one of our dreams in life yesterday: we bought a little tiny letterpress. It’s a 5×8-inch Kelsey Excelsior O that dates to the late 1920s or early ’30s. We ordered new rollers today, so with a little luck, we should have it up and running in a couple weeks. Thanks to the good …
Category Archives: Block Print
The latest in the series
This Friday marks Arbor Day, and we’ve had this block print in mind for months. We took a slice of an old landscaping timber, cut out the shape of Nebraska (home to Arbor Day) with a bandsaw and used that as our block. Simple, grungy, texture-y. We love this sort of stuff.
Erin go bragh
The latest in the block print holiday card series.
Happy 2014
The start of a block-print series. All the best in 2014.
I searched for work, at my side was the hammer
he good people at HearNebraska.org asked me to help with an exciting fundraising project for their awesome organization. They’ve lined up a small show with Simon Joyner at HN headquarters, which it shares with DP Muller Photo Studio in Benson. And it’s being catered by Post Punk Kitchen’s chef, Isa Chandra Moskowitz. To add to …
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Velo valentine
It might be March. And I may have sent out only a handful of them because I ran out of time. But I printed up some valentine cards a few weeks ago and gave the good people of Maché a rundown of how I made them. They’re always doing good work, and I’m happy when …
Last night’s printing project
I whipped up some block-printed coasters last night for a little self-promotion.
Merry Christmas
Happy Holidays from flying, bike-riding Santa.
Velo-love
Today I got around to scanning some recent work, including these block print valentine postcards. Maybe next year, I’ll lose the red, white and pink color scheme.
Heart-to-art conversation
I made some lino-cut postcards last week.