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Last night was so surprised to see the first shoots of daffodils coming up! Spring is on its way. Illustration by the ever talented @jukudesign .
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#letterpresslove #handdrawn #paperlove

Last night was so surprised to see the first shoots of daffodils coming up! Spring is on its way. Illustration by the ever talented @jukudesign . . . . . . #letterpresslove #handdrawn #paperlove

Afternoon light. .
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#letterpressstudio #Chandler&PriceCraftsman #Kluge #Heidelberg #Vandercook #printshop

Afternoon light. . . . . . . . #letterpressstudio #Chandler&PriceCraftsman #Kluge #Heidelberg #Vandercook #printshop

Getting excited for workshops! Come play! @wonder.in.color
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#printmakingclasses #makeart #useyourhands #makersmovement

Getting excited for workshops! Come play! @wonder.in.color . . . . . . #printmakingclasses #makeart #useyourhands #makersmovement

From the plate in the previous post, I made a print and then a few more — a wall of nature studies! These are nature prints from some of the most beautiful and resilient wild flora (weeds!) and cultivated botanicals, too. The level of detail in a real, physically transferred nature print can't be captured any other way. It's surprisingly intricate and so beautiful. From those images, we engraved letterpress plates, mixed a soft charcoal ink (Soil! A soft, rich, brown-black with a little silver) and printed each one by hand on cotton. These measure 12-5/8 x 19-1/4

From the plate in the previous post, I made a print and then a few more — a wall of nature studies! These are nature prints from some of the most beautiful and resilient wild flora (weeds!) and cultivated botanicals, too. The level of detail in a real, physically transferred nature print can't be captured any other way. It's surprisingly intricate and so beautiful. From those images, we engraved letterpress plates, mixed a soft charcoal ink (Soil! A soft, rich, brown-black with a little silver) and printed each one by hand on cotton. These measure 12-5/8 x 19-1/4" unframed and are signed. Available framed and unframed. Here’s to a beautiful and resilient new year!! . . . . . #botanicalprint #fineartprint #minimalistdecor

This is one of the wood mounted magnesium plates from a series of fifteen nature prints. I inked botanicals, pressed them onto paper, then made letterpress plates from those images. Want to do a nature print workshop at the first sight of spring.
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#natureprint #contemporaryprintmaking #letterpress

This is one of the wood mounted magnesium plates from a series of fifteen nature prints. I inked botanicals, pressed them onto paper, then made letterpress plates from those images. Want to do a nature print workshop at the first sight of spring. . . . . . . #natureprint #contemporaryprintmaking #letterpress

Another pressed botanical for your enjoyment 🙂 White larkspur on mould-made paper. Sometimes you just need to send a note with a little flower...
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#pressedbotanicals #herbarium #fortheloveofpaper

Another pressed botanical for your enjoyment 🙂 White larkspur on mould-made paper. Sometimes you just need to send a note with a little flower... . . . . . . #pressedbotanicals #herbarium #fortheloveofpaper

Want to do a simple workshop @wonder.in.color with these. Not sure yet what word(s)..... or color! Hmm... Thanks @csmith_and_son for the photo! .
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#metaltype #letterpressworkshop #wonderincolor

Want to do a simple workshop @wonder.in.color with these. Not sure yet what word(s)..... or color! Hmm... Thanks @csmith_and_son for the photo! . . . . . . #metaltype #letterpressworkshop #wonderincolor

Nature print, one of a series of 15 different botanicals. Any guesses what leaf this is?
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Working on getting these properly photographed and online for sale. DM me if you'd like to see the entire series before they're up.

Nature print, one of a series of 15 different botanicals. Any guesses what leaf this is? . Working on getting these properly photographed and online for sale. DM me if you'd like to see the entire series before they're up.

One of my favorites. A broadside for a poem Natasha Trethewey wrote for the Decatur Book Festival. After reading this, I was starstruck. Totally starstruck. I labored over what typeface to use, how on earth to illustrate this! We settled on creating an image of George Lundeen's sculpture of Thomas Jefferson that sits in the square. Natasha is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and won the Pulitzer for Native Guard. This poem and then Native Guard made me fall head over heels in love with poetry again. Thank you @darenwang7434 and @n.trethewey

One of my favorites. A broadside for a poem Natasha Trethewey wrote for the Decatur Book Festival. After reading this, I was starstruck. Totally starstruck. I labored over what typeface to use, how on earth to illustrate this! We settled on creating an image of George Lundeen's sculpture of Thomas Jefferson that sits in the square. Natasha is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and won the Pulitzer for Native Guard. This poem and then Native Guard made me fall head over heels in love with poetry again. Thank you @darenwang7434 and @n.trethewey

"Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth." —Rumi Poetry + pressed mimosa + hand lettering. Thanks to the beautiful soul that just happened to walked in with poetry on the brain and gifts to give, saw these botanicals and wondered aloud what was possible. And thanks to the incredibly talented Moya @mminkstudio for making it happen. Here's to a new year of possibilities made real and beautiful surprises.