saint_monkey

Even though I haven't been paying much attention to livejournal, I have been working on kristin's business card. I made some minor modifications to the arrangements of lights and darks on the image, so that focus could be placed on the coffee cup that the proletariat in the picture is holding. I worked up some text in the Eurostyle font, and transferred and carved out the whole thing onto a Linoleum block. It all came out well enough, but the text is a little rough. The transfer of the text and image had to be done via stencils, rather than the normal method of "Xerox" transferring. (You see, when a Xerox photocopy is made, toner covers tiny foam balls, which the photocopier then melts onto the paper where the "blacks" of the image are to appear. In a "Xerox Transfer," a fresh photocopy is placed face down on the linoleum block, and the back of the photocopy is washed with an orange-oil based solvent. This is then ran through a press. The citric acid in the wash "melts" the tiny foam balls that make up the photocopy, and some of the blacks from the image move from the paper to the block via the action of the press.) Anyhow, since I didn't have a press, I had to go "low-tech" with the handmade paper stencils.
Anyhow, here is the finished block, which I will print soon in order to test for image clarity. (the scan and the crop makes the text look crooked, but it isn't that bad on the block itself.) After I test print it, I will deliver the block and explain it's use, and then we'll be done.