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The Mad Angler now available for purchase & some pics from last weekends book release for The Path

11 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Broadsides, Letterpress, The Mad Angler's Manifesto, Trout

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I finally got The Mad Angler’s Manifesto on my website last night and it is available for purchase. It can be found here along with all the other books and broadsides.

Last Friday was a release party in Ann Arbor, MI for The Path a recent book of mine inspired by a song from Sigrid Christiansen. A very big difference hearing the tune around a crackling “up north” campfire and then hearing a full production with a lineup of backing players any musician would gladly have. Johnny’s Speakeasy is an excellent classy house concert series that’s been going on for years now in an old German apple cellar right on the edge of town. Here’s some pics from the evening performance:

Performance for "The Path"

Sigrid and the Hill Tillers
A little burlesque

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The Mad Angler’s Manifesto ~ the details

05 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Broadsides, Letterpress, Linotype, The Mad Angler's Manifesto, Trout

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The Mad Angler's Manifesto

The Mad Angler’s Manifesto

So there was this poem and…   Well initially I thought to do an intaglio print to accompany this but I’ve been on the linoleum kick lately after the six color blocks for The Path so decided to try a couple new things. A color reduction print, always boggled my mind but why not? Maximum sheet size for my Vandercook proof press in close registration on a 10 x 20″ linoleum block? Why not? eight press runs  –   they’re short, ok…

A relief printing color reduction print is started with the lightest color and only removing the whites, the negative space around the overall image. Then progressively removing more of the linoleum to create the next layer of color. Taking into account the ink transparency and how how it interacts with the previous layer. Looking at it close, in visual reading range (about 5-6′) and from across the room as a compositional complement to what is going on with the text. Just things I think about… Different things happen with the trout at various distances, something your computer just can’t translate…

The nature of reduction printing precludes any future editions. The block is systematically destroyed in the creation of the finished print.

From the beginning I planned to add a bit of red/sienna in the fins to the image and so left those areas open with the white to hit with some water color at the very end. If those areas had remained to print the sienna at the end it would have to have been over the black and that would have meant a very opaque ink, probably two press runs of a silver and then the sienna over it (which would have been cool) but I wanted it to remain washed out and transparent. I also wanted the salvaged block of the last run to be used for an under print on the secondary edition. (see below)

In this case:

  • The text block and title
  • Light blue
  • Grey
  • Yellow green
  • Mid Green
  • Olive
  • Umber
  • Black

Here’s the progression in a pictorial form:

It begins
Color developes
More color

More
What’s left of the block
A little pop

The Mad Angler’s Manifesto

The specs

Composed on the Linotype in 24pt Lydian with Americana Display type in 144pt with an 8 line Americana piece of wood type for the drop cap. Printed on Somerset Book 175gsm cotton paper in an edition of 50. 18 5/8 x 26 inches (47 x 66 cm), signed and numbered by the author and artist.

The secondary edition is of the poem printed on some white domestic commercial stock with a rough finish I’ve had left over for years now and features the result of the final linoleum block state. What is the black in the previous edition is now a dab of raw sienna mixed with heavy plate oil to create an underprinted image of the trout with the poem. Edition of 36, 12 3/4 x 26 inches (32 x 66 cm), signed and lettered by the author and artist.

Secondary edition. The Mad Angler's Manifesto

Secondary edition. The Mad Angler’s Manifesto

That’s a really fat 21″ brooky/brown and this is how I typically see trout this size – swimming away from me…. Mike is coming by tomorrow morning to sign and number them with me, not enough time to get out on the water though.

Better pictures and available to purchase on my website next week when I return from the Kerrytown Bookfest in Ann Arbor this weekend. Come see me Sunday if you happen to be in the area. I’ll have books, prints, ephemera and will be demonstrating intaglio printmaking once again. If your kid is cute enough (and well behaved) they get a free signed print.

Update: Here’s Mike and me signing off on the edition.

Michael Delp and Chad Pastotnik signing the edition.

Michael Delp and Chad Pastotnik signing the edition.

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The Mad Angler

04 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Broadsides, Letterpress, The Mad Angler's Manifesto, Trout

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Broadside, Chad Pastotnik, Color reduction linocut, Fine Press, Letterpress, linocut, Michael Delp

Here is the finished piece. More detail to come tonight after some rest and stillness.

Finished size is 18 5/8 x 26 inches. An eight color lino reduction print to accompany Michael Delp’s poem The Mad Angler’s Manifesto.

The Mad Angler's Manifesto. Color reduction linocut and poem by Michael Delp.

The Mad Angler’s Manifesto. Color reduction linocut by Chad Pastotnik and poem by Michael Delp.

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