Friday, March 6, 2020

First Pressing

©2020 Barry Smith - Kindness mini posters - red - first in a rainbow series - using Garamond 72 pt lead type on Gmund rag paper - max white 300gsm
Fiona and I have done our first letterpress in Deckled Edge Press' new home.

We pondered what our first work would be; and agreed that we would do a Rainbow of Kindness series of 7 mini-posters (12.5cmX17.5cm). After agreeing the words for the seven posters we allocated words and colours. I have 4 shorter sets of words for 1, 3, 5 and 7 in the series.

I started the first in the series by doing rainbow red as you can see from the opening photo.

A few process photos follow.

©2020 Barry Smith - Cup of tea and a planning discussion
©2020 Barry Smith - Choosing the font for the first mini poster from one of Fiona's type samplers
©2020 Barry Smith - Setting the type into the chase
©2020 Barry Smith - Rich rainbow red
©2020 Barry Smith - Type locked up and inked up in one of our  Adana presses
©2020 Fiona Dempster - First inked proof off the press
©2020 Barry Smith - Twenty-one mini posters - some will be weeded because of quality - set out to dry
There is something serendipitous about the fact that Fiona and I agreed to start letter pressing in our new studio by doing a collaborative series on kindness.

3 comments:

  1. such a good, rich red ... and it doesn't surprise me at all that you would begin with kindness

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