Sometimes we opt to add some colour by hand painting onto prints. In this case, the colours added are Windsor and Newton inks and highlight a small part of the pictures. The addition of colour adds a distinctive touch to each piece, making no two pieces exactly the same.
Hand colouring is quite meditative and something we enjoy doing on hot summer days.
The Boy and the Taniwha: This reworked book design was exhibited at the Bodleian Library at the Oxford University, United Kingdom, and is catalogued in the feature publication Heroic Works, for the Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2017, edited by Jeanette Koch.
There is something meditatively satisfying when manually treadling a small letterpress, feeding in and removing individual sheets.
As we have been sorting out various mechanical and technical issues, printing the bird series has been delayed for seems like forever. But this week, we have take off! The first off the press are the large Tui and Duck prints, which sport one colour so far.
