EXHIBITION

One of the things I’ve been meaning to tell ya’ll is about the exhibition I had in my shop on returning from Penland. I pinned up all the work you so graciously allowed me to have, so that my apprentices here could see what you did in one week. Most of my apprentices were pretty amazed and one of them was even upset that so much was done in just a week by “beginners.” I think, I hope, that your enthusiasm and creativity was an inspiration to the folks here.

  I’ve been asked to do a two-week “beginning letterpress” course at Penland next year. So I’ve been wondering what else I should include in a longer course. More on illustration techniques? Carving linoleum blocks? Making photopolymer plates? Any suggestions? What else would you have liked to have learned that we didn’t cover?

  Brandon Mize at Blue Barnhouse (  http://www.bluebarnhouse.org/wordpress/  ) is thinking about doing a book on letterpress printing and has invited me to submit images. Trouble is, I don’t have images, I only have the real thing. Guess I’ll have to get a photographer to make me some images. If they end up in Brandon’s book, I’ll let you know.