Letterpress course at KhiO

I was very happy on Monday before it started and even happier at the end. Teaching others when they are eager to learn, creative, want to learn and has such a drive to actually use the equipment is just a dream.  We started off with wood type on Monday and started setting metal type on Wednesday. By the end of the week they had almost no questions and was printing loads of beautiful prints. It seems like everyone had a great week, and I hope they will use the equipment further.

Here are some of the prints they produced during the week.

I set this to show how to work with wood type.

Load of ink and mixing of inks.

 

I had to show them how the Heidelberg machine works, and they got to try. 

Mini letterpress course :)

Next week, on Tuesday 13th of March, I will put up an miniletterpress course for everyone that wants to try, look, learn, feel, touch and smell what I love so much :)
It will be open for those that want. Because of space, equipment and only my two hands and two eyes, I can take only 8 people on this course. Even with one or two the course will run! If many more wants to come, I’ll try and arrange for another one later :)

Time: 16.30 – (until we are tired and want to go home)
Place: Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
Price: 300,-

All material is included other than paper. Bring what you got or what you want to try out!

Let me know if you want to come

Sent with …

It all started with a quote from one of my tutors in High School "keep it simple stupid". Some days all I want is to print something cute, simple and with the little "extra" to it. This card has possibilities beyond my fantasy, only your imagination is the limit to create a card that will but a smile on the lucky receiver's face.

Sometimes you feel empty

Through a life time I'm quite sure most people sometimes feel a bit empty. What makes you feel that way can be different things. Maybe something a close person said or did, or maybe it was the shock of somebody's too early death. This piece is very personal to me, and it was done several weeks ago but I didn't feel like showing it before now. Today I have this empty feeling again. Look forward to tomorrow and a day in the Letterpress studio to get rid of it.

Half or a pint?

Why London-people seem to assume girls only drink half is still a wonder to me. But I keep getting the question and I'm tired of it! I'm sorry but: "why have a half when you can have a pint?"

Happy Easter everyone :D

A simple days work

Some days in the studio I get an idea and then I just have to set it even though I'm busy working on another project. It happen last week! Some students and teachers from NKF (in Norway) came to visit the studio at Uni,
and I got asked to show them how letterpress works. I wanted to show off one of the presses, but I got no work set up for it. Whenever that happens I also go for the first idea in my head. This time to set a bit changed quote from a song of the Norwegian band DumDum Boys. The text says "Ha hjertet på rett steed" (Have the heart in the right place) and I set in very quickly, but ended up really liking it. Hope you will too :)

Letterpress workshop at KhiO

A few weeks ago I had a workshop with mainly letterpress and a bit of book binding together with a MA student Ane Thon Knutsen from KhiO and a printer and teacher from Oslo By Steinerskole Thomas Pfeiffer. The students seemed happy, all of us teachers were happy and I really enjoyed myself.

It felt a bit strange to teach in a studio I've never worked in before. But after a while I felt I got how things were organised there. The students worked very independent which allowed me to learn this amazing Hiedelberg Platen press. I was smiling, printing and loving working with the norwegian letters æ, ø and å.

Thomes Pfeiffer shows how it works!

The lock-up of my design of only æ, ø and å.

The piece printed, and of course in green.