Love the process and colour

©2019 Barry Smith - Mixing that gorgeous purple

There has not been a lot of time for creative work today as we are doing a big lot of pruning etc on the block and were pushing to get it finished today.

I did cut up a lot of remnant 15cm square timber into 45cm lengths, 18 lengths, to create a couple of cube installation-thingies - but more on that another time.

I wanted to share a few images of the process and colour involved in printing my 2019 New Year cards.

Letterpress can be quite relaxing if one is willing to work slowly and methodically - and one has a tutor such as Fiona one can call on along the steps of the process. Images of some of the steps and colour follow.

©2019 Barry Smith - Sitting with a mug of tea choosing fonts - using the card system Fiona has created for all our 70 plus metal fonts

©2019 Barry Smith - Deciding on words and layout and font size

©2019 Barry Smith - Trays of spacers

©2019 Barry Smith - Press and type inked up and ready to go

©2019 Barry Smith - Testing the placement of the paper to be printed

©2019 Barry Smith - Making an adjustment to layout

©2019 Barry Smith - Chase back in the press and another proof printed

©2019 Barry Smith - A stash of postcards printed including proofs

©2019 Barry Smith - Fiona and my postcards beside each other - I love how Fiona has over printed the green of the wood type with the purple I used - suffragette colours

I'm already itching to do a wood type poster. So hopefully that will be my next letterpress project.