Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Marking the beginning of a new year and decade

©2020 Barry Smith - Postcard off the press
Today Fiona and I printed our 2020 new year cards. The tradition in our household is to send new year postcards rather than Christmas cards.

My cards were printed using very old wood type - a bit rough and the numbers came from the 'random numbers' draw-tray. I chose strong orange as a healing colour - though it printed much darker on the cream paper.

©2020 Barry Smith - Orange for healing
©2020 Barry Smith - Proof testing the layout
©2020 Barry Smith - Beautiful colour
©2020 Barry Smith - Printed 45 in all - they will take a couple of days to dry
©2020 Barry Smith
©2020 Barry Smith - Ready for the clean up
Doing a little bit of letterpress work was a good way to start the year. So from us and our press we send a message of hope and healing for 2020.


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