Today was the last of the 4 printmaking workshops for this group. Thanks to all of you for turning up on a lovely sunny day when we'd all rather be outside...quite a few of you missing though, please do come and finish off your project work another time. Friday is a good day and you could fit it in between lectures, and Thursdays are fine is you only want to use Letterpress. There will be more free time on the timetable after Easter and I'm hoping some of you will come back and use the facilities then.
Thanks also for filling in feedback forms. It's really useful to get your comments on the 4-week workshop, I'll take your suggestions onboard, and pass on any relevant points for consideration when planning next year's course.
We looked at some books kept in the special collection in the Library today. This brilliant resource is available to you, just request what you would like to see and give the Library a little time to get it out of store for you. Here is one of Thomas Bewick's "Tale-pieces", from "British Birds" volume 2, letterpress text and illustrated with wood-engravings, and printed from the original blocks,1834. The other books were "Marsh Leaves" by P. Emerson, with photogravures printed from the original copper etching plates, and the book with the over-the-top foilblock letterpress cover was called "The Lakes in Sunshine" by James Payne. For more information, see blog entries of 29/10/2010 and 19/1/2011.
Letterpress was where most of you needed to be today, apologies to all who had to wait their turn and are coming back later in the week to print. This is Alva's chase, a challenging piece of type-setting that visually describes the leather-worker's tool she drew using a mix of wood and metal type. Tricky to print - the different height type meant printing by hand rather than using the press.
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