Tag: letterpress print

New Print in Progress #2

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I posted about my plates for the letterpress swap before and I was so excited to start printing at my new studio! I am renting a studio in Brooklyn now so I can print more and more!

The first color, yellow:

It’s the same Vandercook press, but each press feels so different when you use it. Each press definitely has a personality, I think. This guy is cool, a bit tricky at first, but prints very nicely.

Mixing the second color – pale green:

Printing the second color:

Overlapped area:

The third color – using almost same green, I printed this on the green graphic from the second print…

Like this:

and I had to go… There would be one more color and the background will be completed.

And then, the main art will be on top of this background… do you like what you see so far?! The final print will be coming very soon!

New Prints :: Music is My Life

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I’m happy to announce that I have new prints in my shop! “Music is My Life.” I’ve been wanting to make this for a while, inspired by this song that I like. I admire people who are passionate about music, who live with music… if you can say that Music is your life, that is so awesome!

It’s only limited to 41 prints and I only printed in black. Available here! It makes a great gift to your music lover boyfriends, girlfriends, family and friends.

PEACE on Earth

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I really wish for world peace and happy holidays to everyone in the world.

I hope this reaches out to the world…

“PEACE” print and card at my store.

Letterpress Class 7

Posted on by Hijiri

I can’t believe I only have 3 more classes left… I can say that I am more comfortable using Vandercook Press now, from beginning to the end, I can do everything by myself! (well, I’m sure I have a lot to learn still, but I feel like I got the basic of it)

We can now do whatever we want to print, work on our own projects, so I continued printing my holiday card first and some new prints for my shop.

I took wood type blocks and printed “PEACE” on my holiday card — with everything going on in the world, I really wish peace on earth….

Printed on top of my snowflakes linoleum prints from last week:

Printed some more “Live What You Love” in red and blue � Thank you, everyone, the green one is sold out!

Available at my Etsy store.

I ordered 100% cotton paper (means tree-free! I’m so excited about that) and so from here on, I am going to try as eco-friendly as possible with my work and store. These new prints are of course printed on tree-free paper and the paper is made for letterpressing so the impression of the print is more awesome than ever!