I've gotten a. Few amazing holiday gifts this season and here they are. @pencilution handmade journal, vegan for those of us who don't carnivore. It's lovely and I wish Johnny and I could sit around and make some books together, perhaps in the future!!! And @capsun sent me this amazing Tomoe river journal. I can't wait to dig into this. These 2 books will probably fill most of my journal needs for the next 6 months. Part of me wants to make them each have a purpose vs just filling them with random thoughts. We'll see. #gifts #thebestpenpals

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I used this print to teach kids about the use of found objects and letter press. Really did the combo of this yellow and.browm together. Yes the print isn't perfect, it was meant to be rough and uneven. I really dig how this came out. I have another idea for printing some found objects but it is even more out there than this. The finished print is 12x18 inches, and I made 10 of them total, a few will be available for sale on my ko-fi. #printplay #print #printmaking #bellhooks #love #freedom Honestly just go read bell hooks.

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Decided to make myself a little journal while I made a bunch for the teens that work in my studios. I decided to work some collage in it. I snagged a batch of antique maps, shared a few but snagged some for me. Laying down some basic journal pages. 40 super heavy weight pages, kid. Orange satin page marker and false end bands.handmade book cloth spine and hand printed covers. Pretty stoked with it. #bookbinding #printplay #artistsofinstagram #booklover

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No kids in my studio for a few more hours so I e got sleater-kinney on blast. A few mini book covers drying out and soon to go onto the blocks. All gelli printed and the book cloth pictured previously makes the spine. Wrists are KILLIN me tho. #worthit #bookbinding #printplay #gifts #maker

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It's been quite a long time since I made my own book cloth. Probably 10 or more years. cotton cloth printed with hello plates and acrylic paint. 1:3 pva:methyl cellulose for the glue. Long open time and dries clear and sturdy. Perfectly stiff for cutting to size and best of all not a bit of stretch. #bookbinding #printplay #printandbooksgotogether

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A small tribute to bell hooks. Gone too soon. A little gelli print and toner transfer. I attempted a toner resist of the words but didn't get good results. Gotta try again. #printplay #print #gelliprint #tonertransfer #comfortableshoesstudio

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It's been a MINUTE since I made a hardback book this little baby is a mere 5x3 ish inches and a fat .75 inches thick. The paper is super thick cardstock I happened upon. 10 signatures of 2 sheet each to make 80 pages. I held.off.on posting it since I made it to gift during our Yankee swap at work. I paired it with a bottle of my cyser. It was sealed several times. I both love and hate Yankee swaps. I snagged a piece of art that lights up with LED lights.

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This wheelchair has been sitting on the Lynn MBTA station for 2 days. It's been moved around a bunch and repaired a couple of times with roofing rubber. I want and don't want to know the story here. #lynnlynncityofsin #wellthen #weird #thungsyouseeontheMBTA #mbtafilth

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I did 2 more copies of the forest plate. This time inked with a loose blue black. I dig it more this way. The looser ink and increased press pressure gave a much better print. Also the looser ink really lifted off the plate. The upper areas were nearly clean of ink when I finished. This paper is awful though. It was decently damp but still buckled. I have no idea what kind of paper it is. I suspect it is a mixed media paper, just a thin one. We'll make sketchbooks out of it.#printplay #print #printmaking #prototype #collagraph #trashprintmaking #collography

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One print was over wiped the other a little under. I think these night look better with Paynes grey ink. I like the way the glue resist looks and the texture from the tissue, nut the tissue is hard to wipe and get a good image. The lower half is hard to get an even wipe. I think I need to ink the trees a little better too. Another option is that the pressure wasn't enough or paper not damp enough. #printplay #printmaking #print #trashprintmaking #collagraph

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Americano and fireplace in this bitter day. More chores today and then work tomorrow. I hope everyone had a good 🦃 day.

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This dog is lucky he's incredibly cute right now. He woke up at 3am and was readjusting his bed. It shouldn't have been as loud as it was but boy was it loud.he was also cranky be cause he drank all his water.

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I carved up these 3 rubber blocks of pencils. They'll grace some notebooks soon. All 3 are on stickers for art pack supporters. Digging them on letter writing paper. #printplay #print #printmaking #stationery #penaddict #erasable #rsvppodcast

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Welcome to my friends and fam from FB. I mostly post art stuff here. I've been carving up some @inovartpp red rubber. It carved really well and produces crisp prints. I dig it. I've got some images to put on notebooks and stickers. Art Pack supporters will get a selection of coffee cup and pencil stickers in their packs. Really dogging the pencil and coffee cup. More art stuff soon. #art #stickers #printplay #print #printmaking #stationery

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What do you do when @mitchelka gifts you with hundreds of little glass circles? If you are me you think of ways to print them. In this case I ran them through the etching press glued to a base. Ahem too much pressure cracked them but after I backed off the pressure I was able to relief print them. The kicker with this is that they need to be about the same height or the surrounding circles don't print even when just a smidge off. Even with that, I dig the look. This was just a test, again. I can't wait to see what the students come up with when I give them a box of circles. #printmaking #print #printplay #prototype #fromideatoprint

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We're planning something at work and I doodles something. Then I had some free time in the shop. So I threw together a little something on the tabletop Kelsey8x10 and was pretty happy. Yes, it's magenta on the back of an old print. Far from perfect, a lot of the wooden type we have is uneven and doesn't ink well at all. It was quite frustrating to pull everything off, clean it, add in a bit of tape to lift the type a smidge here and there. I'm not sure if the type has been crushed but most of it was much shorter than the antique S I used. But still, this is also a useful example for the kids of how fast you can take an idea from a doodle to a working prototype. This concept will be reworked a few times, clean up, added to and finally printed for the event. #letterpress #kelseytabletop #printmaking #print

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First time using @charbonnel1875 aqua wash etching ink. The black is lovely but very sticky. The #trashprintmaking print came out great, though I noticed a few areas I wanted to change. But that glue technique is making me super happy. That random pattern is awesome. Can't wait to see the other plates. This is one of the larger plates I've worked on and I dig it. #printmaking #print #art #artistsofinstagram

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Sigh. Good bye sweet jadeite mug. It had a surprisingly long run before my partner smashed it. I'll never find a deal like this one again. #coffee

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A few plates I've been working on. These are more #trashprintmaking and use old food packaging with a glossy coat. I've used more wood glue with the resist technique and let it randomly bead up. These are quite a bit larger than most of my other pieces. Anyway, images of lady liberty.. I'm thinking of doing a blind emboss over the top of chain link. We'll see. #print #printmaking #collagraph #recycle

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I picked up a few slabs of this red rubbery off brand carving block. I like it quite a bit. It carved easily, holds details well enough and is cheap for a 2 pack of 6x9 pieces from block. I'll write up a review. But I'm planning to do a few No Brand Notebooks with this and some cool ink. This set up is for a 2 color front label similar to a composition notebook. #printmaking #art #relief #fun #makergonnamake

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When carving stamps and such, make sure your letters are reversed. Sigh. Finally tested red rubber out. It works, but isn't perfect. It has to be backed and to get a good impression you ha e to be careful. #printmaking #rubberstamp #carving

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Not very interesting but wow did I erase a lot of depictions of 🍌🥕🌽🥒🍆🥜🥖🌭 then I cleaned the tables and gave them a thick coat of water based urethane. The tables are clean and will be easy to clean later. Awesome.

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For my apple nerd friends... Some Jobs history at the Museum of Print in Haverhill. Including a Lisa and. Next machine. @awelfle I thought of you when I saw the Lisa machine

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Today for work I visited the museum of printing in Haverhill, ma. I was given a tour by the delightful Frank Romano then wandered around to see everything. There is a lot to see and learn and experience here. If you have a chance to visit, you should definitely go and visit. #printmaking #letterpress #print

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Another cabin image, a go to for testing out techniques. This one is all additive. Some embossing paint I picked up on discount years ago, glue and sand, plus some acrylic to seal it all. It'll get some crackle effect in the open areas before getting shellacked and printed. It'll be interesting to see how this one prints, it's one part random and another detailed. #printmaking #collagraph #artistsofinstagram #art #plate #print.

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Some finished prints, almost dry. 3 of each so far. They will be listed on my ko-fi page tomorrow (link in bio). The small prints will be $20+s&h ($3) large will be $25+s&h the large have a hefty shipping fee ($9) due to size. Sold unmounted and not framed. Raw prints. They will be signed and not numbered for edition. The plates will destroy themselves after 13 or so prints, so no matter what it is limited but my philosophy I regards to edition numbers is evolving. In the end the plates may be sold or just used as examples of material effects in classes. I'm also planning on posting the older prints I haven't had a chance to get images of. Printed using @akuainks by @speedball_art on @cansonusa multimedia paper. Anyway, if you want more info about materials I wrote up a lengthy post for ko-fi and will document more regarding the wood glue. The effect is visible in the detail photos and the ketamine image. #printmaking #collagraph #intaglio #print #art #artistsofinstagram #trashprintmaking

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One of the plates worked up. I opted for something very graphic and with the soft thin lines of drypoint. I love how this has worked up sofar. This coffee bag has a slick plastic layer over a thin aluminum adhered to paper. This all glued down incredibly well to the old make ready from the print shop. The layers peel back beautifully to expose the paper of the old print. The slickness of the plastic let my etching needle glide over the surface. Super 77 seems to work really well as an adhesive too, I'm not getting any residual stickiness. More info over on ko-fi soon. #printmaking #trashprintmaking #thisisyourbrainondrugs #workingaseries #makergonnamake #print #testingtrash

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Working on a few series of brains and skulls with some passengers. The progression will be shared on my ko-fi page for supporters. But the final prints will show up here. This is #trashprintmaking the plates are made up of coffee bags glued to old make ready from the print shop. I used Super 77 spray adhesive and it did pretty well. After tacking everything down I ran it through the press. The big pres at work has thick felts on it and I feel like it didn't smash stuff together as much as I wanted. Everything needed a burnish afterwards. Anyway, once the plates are made, they are trimmed to size. I work up my image with a sharpie the scratch and cut into the surface. I might work some areas with glue. After I'm happy with the lines visually I'll coat everything with shellac. Front and back. I might adhere these to a backing to get a better impression from the plate. Also it will add to the sturdiness. These once cut feel fragile. #printmaking #art #print #recycle #thisisyourbrainondrugs

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I started this FN back when stuff was really rough at the old day job. My therapist suggested I start journaling at the end of every shift with my version of the day as a way to leave it behind. It helped a lot, looking back, with a bit of hindsight, has let me see where I was adding to the story and where I was more objective. It really was terrible and toxic. I hadn't written in it since the final rounds.of my new job interview process. I don't want to fill this journal so I added a few notes and have decided to retire it as pocket notebook number 103. I've got a new one more than half full and I really wish I could find my one star x nock leather fodderstack. I'm hoping it is around here somewhere. #fieldnotes #pocketnotebooks #journaling #stationery #penaddict #rsvppodcast #erasable #usefuljournaling

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Some more work meeting scribbles. #sketching #sketchysketches #doodlesofinstagram #arttherapy #rawartworks #drawing

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My poster for work is done. If glitch were letterpress this is what it would look like. This is a 3 color job: blue, yellow and magenta on top. The largest type are antiques, the middle size was a modern purchase. Finally the smallest type is lead and newish. Killer. These are the groups I'll be running. Got a queer HS student in Lynn that would like to explore letterpress, printing, in an art therapy based environment, HMU. Small group, loads of supportive fun. #printmaking #letterpress #arttherapy #artistsofinstagram #rawartworks #lynnmass

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A "Good Job" plant. Those are thumbs for a thumbs up. I laughed at this harder than anyone should at their own silly art.

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Excuse the dust, but I had to refill these pens today. I've been scribbling a lot of things and filling pages of sketchbooks. Really digging the diamine majestic blue for writing and sketching. The pages of my work doodle book is supposed absorbent, which is great for printing stuff but sucks up ink when sketching. I dig how it looks though. I also really like reusing trash. #fountainpen #sketching #ink #penaddict #rsvppodcast

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Rainy nor'easter today. Finished the poster I've been working on and broke down the job for the next one to hit the press. I've got print drying everywhere. But I sat down with some more make ready and misprints and made a few more sketchbooks. One is for me and the other is a gift. I keep finding stuff in the shop and it's awesome. The binding is a simple 2 sig in one set of holes. I forget what it is called in the Keith a Smith book, but it is a fave for these simple books made of trash. #bookbinding #sketchbook #upcycle #reuse #artistsofinstagram

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A few meeting squiggles. Don't sit across from me or I'll sketch ya. #drawing #sketchysketches #meetingsketches #art #artofinstagram #instagramartists

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Made a book out of trash. Literally, picked this stuff up from a local biz who saves packaging and then gives it away. This was some heavy weight wrapping paper. The exterior is several layers glued together and then covered in a bunch of acrylic paint. The interior is a simple smythe stitch which is then glued up. I glued it to the cover, not well. I didn't center the block well at all. That said the trash paper I side will make for a good sketchbook. #makergonnamake #maker #bookbinding

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Checking out @kiddreamcoffee love the bright light in the shop and the coffee is fantastic. Love that there is a place in Bev to get @broadsheetcoffee digging the Kenya on this gorgeous fall day. #coffee #foodie

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Fab day teaching trash printmaking in Maine. We made plates from coffee bags then tests some coffee cups and foil lined boxes. We printed these with @speedball_art Akua inks on card stock using a craft press. #printmaking #drypoint #prints #art #minipress #maker #artplay #instagramartists

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MBTA filth.

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Cyclists... don't do this. You risk the MBTA impounding your ride but also, it stops the platform from being fully wheelchair accessible. Don't be an ableist jerk. Also, there is a sturdy bike rack RIGHT there. #dontbeanass #ableistcyclist

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I made a Kugel tonight. This is super simple and omits raisins. Crispy egg noodles on top and smooth custardy filling.Tasty. Horrible for my diet.

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Where did Sunday go? Beta reading @monicamccallan upcoming novel. Good stuff. #lesfic #writerscommunity #manuscriptingpod

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It's been a MINUTE since I've been in the receiving area of any whole foods but here I am snagging materials for my new job. Free clean cardboard for acting on? Yes, please. #artplay #artmaterials #artfromtrash #recyclemakeart

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Wowow if you have ever bought gochugaru- Korean pepper flakes you know you use a lot of them for Korean cooking. I decided to grow my own Korean gochu- a hybrid called.Gochujang King. These dried pepper flakes consist of more than half my harvest. They are sweet and hot and amazing. Immense punch of flavor. Amazing variety that I picked up from @kitazawa_seed and will grow again. Pepper friends I'd be happy to send you a package of some seeds. I also grew Aleppo peppers which are so good too. #hotpeppers #growshit #eatgoodfood #hot #proudplantmom #grow

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Whoa, @penaddict and @writepads this things looks amazing at half full. Getting there. Thanks for this one @capsun #penaddict #stationery #RSVPstationerypodcast #fountainpen #pencils

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Wowowowow found these bits of printing history in a cabinet at @rawartworkslynn some antique @miltonbradley911 ink and some @speedball_art ink from when Pearl Paint was still around. Despite the cans being half sealed the ink is still good!!! Hey @speedball_art what year do you think those cans are from? #coolstuff #printmaking

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Waking up a print shop means I get to make some books out of dead prints. Think Field Notes but art made by students and staff at my workplace. I made a stack of these today. Killer. Really digging the layers of prints and what they look like over one another. Simple pamphlet stitch, yeah I'll be doing this with students. #printmaking #prints #instagramartists #artplay #art #maker

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The #trashprintmaking print from yesterday's video. Loads of good plate tone and texture in the dark areas- deeper darks and nice range of tone. #printmaking #collograph #collagraph #printmaking #prints #instagramartists #artplay #art #maker

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Skully stamps!!! These are made of peel and stick fun foam scribed into with a ball point pen or cut with an exacto. Then stuck to a second layer of foam. Finally stick to a pill bottle lid. I've stamped them with stazon and acrylic paint, both work well. I made some more stickers. The first layer is gelatin prints and stencils. Then the skully stamps. Then embellished with ballpoint, molotov pens, and gelly roll pens. Heat set the whole thing and boom stickers. Coming to a print pack club member soon!!! Also, I'll list some on ko-fi soon. #stationery #pen #artplay #artjournal #journaling #journal #maker #makergonnamake #craftyfuckers #upcycle

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Some people want a cake for their birthday. I asked for a charcuterie board and my wife outdid herself. Noooooms. #foodporn #foodie

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