Fresh Ink :: Antlers

Last night I printed quite a few of the next print to be apart of my White Ink Limited Collection! I am really happy with the finished print as well as the color of the handmade paper. The exact hue of the paper is so tricky to capture, so, in a word...bordeaux. 

Hope you have a lovely weekend! 

I'm looking forward to printing and carving a couple new designs, as well as having a dear friend of mine from college and her husband stay with us while they're in the Twin Cities for a wedding. :) 

+ + + This is the same friend that I created this special print for her little babe's nursery.

Fresh Ink :: White on Blue

I wanted to experiment a bit with some of my prints and some different paper than I typically use for printing. I've had my eyes on this Lama Li paper for quite a while and thought I'd give it a try. The paper is handmade in Nepal and comes in a wide range of colors - but wait....even better - I found out that a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of these papers supports community development initiatives like clean water, road construction, and other infrastructure projects in Nepal! Pretty sweet deal! 

All in all I'm really happy with how this turned out. 

Come back to see more soon...I got two other colors! :)

:: Hand mixing ink to warm it up ::

:: Rolling the ink out with the brayer ::

:: After ink is rolled onto matrix with the brayer ::

:: Burnishing the back of the paper with my wooden spoon to transfer the ink to the paper ::

:: Finished print and matrix ::   

         

:: An afternoon spent printing on new paper produced some fun results ::

:: Can't wait to do more like it! ::

Snow + Flake

I finally had enough time last evening to do printing of my snowflakes part deux. While I had the white ink rolled out I printed another feather moleskin journal as well :: it was a nice and  productive little evening!