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| ©2020 Barry Smith - A River of Stars on display (21 starburst bowls forms) |
It is hard to believe that our
DEP open stdio event has been and gone. Saturday was a great day - the weather stayed fine and we had a good crowd of people through the studio. Strangely we have no photos of the people in the studio simply because we were so busy: talking to people; sharing the space (up to 15 folk at a time); giving people a chance to try their hand at letterpress printing; and selling some bits and pieces.
Below are a couple of photos of some stuff on the walls.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - My Urban Elements prints |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Fiona ams my Rainbow of Kindness framed (and sold) |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Fear is Real so is Hope - framed |
A few photos related to opportunity for people to try letterpress.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - A chase with wood type set up on the bed of the cylinder press so folk could have a go at printing a small poster |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - We had three chases set up so folk could print a post card on one of the Adana presses |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - You rock locked up in the chase |
Today was a misty rainy day so I got time to finish a project. Fiona suggested we might print some birthday cards that included a calendar. I had set up the chase before the open studio - today I printed cards for June 2020 through to December 2020. The idea is a person purchases the relevant month and then circles the date relevant to the friend or family member - similar to what I have done for September 21.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Birthday card that can bepersonalised |
The project was quite structured but also labour intensive as I had to change the heading on each and move all the numbers around for each month. I was using an old calendar set and a few of the spacers were missing so Fiona suggested I use some leaf ornaments of the same size - it worked well.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Proofs of the seven months |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Two drying racks with cards. |
We are officially both tired but also happy with our weekend achievements.
congratulations (((Fiona & Barry))) !
ReplyDeleteIt's a very attractive calendar.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the exhibition.
be careful.
I wish You all the best.
Greeting and hug.
From Japan, ruma ❃
So glad it went well, hope to visit again when things calm down xxx
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