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The Trout in Winter is now available

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Broadsides, Future Projects, PR and Media releases, The Trout in Winter

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arts, ATF Kelly 2 letterpress, future projects, Glenn Wolff, intaglio, Jerry Dennis, Letterpress, literature

Jerry, Glenn and I got together Sunday and went through the pile. We ended up with 65 passable prints for the edition then proceeded to number and sign them together as we toasted another fun project. Jerry put up a nice piece about the project on his blog today if you are interested.  Rumors are flying that our next collaborative book will be a little something about the least visited national park in the country. Any guesses?

the process

the process

The print is available for purchase now on my website and Glenn has also put it up on his here. $225.00 + shipping

Jerry Dennis, Glenn Wolff & Chad Pastotnik

Jerry Dennis, Glenn Wolff & Chad Pastotnik

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Tonal backgrounds for artwork

20 Friday Apr 2012

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Books, Equipment, Heart of Darkness, Letterpress, Printing, The Intruder

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ATF Kelly 2 letterpress, Heart of Darkness, intaglio, John Voelker, Joseph Conrad, Letterpress, The Intruder

For the center spread we did for Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” I needed access to a bigger press. A friends shop has an old Kelly 2 press in Charlevoix, MI about 40 minutes away. The sheet is 35.5 x 12″, a little too big for any current letterpress at DWP.

I hand inked four 16 gauge copper plates and arranged them on a template on my BAG intaglio press to get the background tones you can see already printed on the sheet. This process has a few benefits – it crushed the fibers of the Hahnemühle Biblio paper stock leaving a smoother surface for the artwork press run, the subtle color adds compositional frames around the artwork on the large page spread, and this process leaves a nice plate mark from the incredible force exerted by the intaglio press.

Today I was shooting for a similar effect but via all letterpress instead of intaglio for the background tone. I tried several ink combinations but in the end I used my own formula of a medium weight linseed oil, just the smallest dab of raw sienna and some other ink body modifiers. Once again I used copper plates but this time mounted them to type height (.918″) and ran them on my Vandercook OS 219.

plate on a Vandercook OS 219
tone plate printed on dampened sheet

wood engraving printed over tone

 

That’s Dale from Seely’s running the beast and me at the delivery end checking sheets.

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