I have been busy working on a project in my letterpress class that I’ve had to keep under wraps. The end result was a birthday gift for Wonder Boy. Well that birthday has come and gone and now I can share what I’ve been creating!Using a combination of a hand-carved linocut, a plate I ordered online and type I laid out, I created this print:

What I might have, in the past, assumed to be simple, took a ton of work! This was three passes on the press and took more hours than I ever would have anticipated. But I love the results and so did Wonder Boy. Success!

The text is a portion of the lyrics of The Idea of Growing Old by The Features, me and Wonder Boy’s favorite song by our favorite group.

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