Why no question this month? Because sometimes I want a break.

And I wanted to print a gradient like the background, something you can’t do on platen presses with an ink disk. Ok, Ilfant Press you can, with rubber bands and ingenuity and one day I will share it with my students. But it is easier on a press with barrel type inking system.

Ok print nerds aside, a bit of wisdom from the great Joan Rivers. Sorry everyone, things are often hard. But you learn to handle it, how and when to fight, how to cope, when to let go. Like Kenny Rodgers (hey wait, is the Gambler about more than poker? Is it about life?)

I sure over inked the heck outta the text with oil based ink and maybe, going forward I will switch back to rubber because I am clearly not careful enough.

Letterpress printed with polymer plates on French Paper on a borrowed Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress.

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