[image description: 3 photos of a combination letterpress & hand-drawn print, and the handse
[image description: 3 photos of a combination letterpress & hand-drawn print, and the handset type forme used to print it. It’s a 4x8 inch illustration of an athletic woman in a floppy hat, bra, and boyshorts, with a lace top printed from a pattern of decorative lettepress pieces. The close-up photo of the print focuses on the pattern where it’s relief printed black-on-black over the underwear, showing in impression and slight reflection of the printing inks. The type forme is alternating rows of looping borders and detailed corner pieces. End description.]ETSYtbh almost No Thoughts about this one, im just vibin, i knew i wanted to try lace and i got a sketch i liked for it and it was pretty easy breezy after that! It’s true I did this one on blue Stonehenge in the hopes I could get white lace to work and the contrast just wasn’t there, but that isn’t bothering me much. I have some saffron yellow scraps that would’ve been great for the printing pass, too, but I didn’t even try it because that paper is way too opaque to transfer the inks through the light table in the first place. There are other solutions for those problems, which I’ll wrestle with another day, but my backup plan was the simple black solution and i like it for this one just fine :) -- source link
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