A few of the other artists in the MCBA mentorship program and I, along with Richard Stephens, made a collaborative broadside. Richard did the reductive lino cut and the rest of us responded to the image in some way with writing and set our own lead type. Being the only writer, I may have been glutinous by comparison with the amount of words I used... this must be the first time I have EVER been more prolific than anyone else!
Yesterday with Julie Baugnet we made mixed media journals. Mine is VERY sloppy, but it was good to loosen the reins after my experiences with letterpress (where precision is everything) and break out the paint. Here, being the only writer, I was at a disadvantage... but I stumbled along.
And finally, now that they've been sent out in the mail, I'll post my first independent project. Baby announcements made for my dear friend Molly. Molly referred to her daughter as "the minnow" while she was carrying her and I asked Shawn to do an illustration that took this into account. He NAILED it. Then I began making mistake after mistake that compromised our original design, had to simplify, cried, made errors that compromised my print run, cried, and eventually got them done, just a couple short of how many I had promised. There's a lot more to the story, but I'm trying to put it behind me. What I learned was that I still need a lot of practice with letterpress, and I'm not going to do important projects for other people until I have more experience. But in the end, it turned out okay. And Shawn's fantastic drawing masks any flaws in the printing. I love him for that, among other things.
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