Prints + Jewelry

Join me and Hillary Huffard next Friday Oct 7th as we show off our latest collaboration being held at Marisa Haskell's Oakland boutique. Deets here:

To Japan with Love

I donated a few special edition prints that I published here at Olive-Route to bluemoon letterpress in Japan. They are putting together an exhibit called Letterpress of Pray to help raise awareness and funds to aid tsunami and earthquake relief efforts.

The exhibit site is up, I know it's mostly in Japanese! But please take a moment to check out my artists as well as the other exhibitors in the show. Thank you Nat, Jane & Hillary for the inspiration!

On Press: Animal art prints

Hot off the presses...These are some process pics of some art collaborations I have coming up!

This 3-piece set of animal prints were illustrated by good friend Hillary Huffard who has been part of the Olive-Route team for the past couple of years. I'm producing these prints to help promote her as the amazing artist that she is :) Hillary will be watercoloring each print by hand and we're hoping to show and sell them locally soon. Details to come!

Pray for Japan

These letterpressed prints I made a couple of years ago in collaboration with artist Jane Kim will be exhibited in Japan at the at Books Kubrik Gallery and Paper Inn Gallery in Fukuoka this fall, hosed by Bluemoon Press. 100% of the proceeds from this exhibition will go directly to earthquake child support group in Iwate prefecture. 

They will host another exhibition of letterpress work in the winter at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum and I will be submitting new artist print collaborations for it which are currently in the works. Will keep you updated. 

More info regarding these exhibitions can be found on Bluemoon Press's FB page here.

These prints entitled The Elements are currently featured on my Etsy shop.

Love is a Battlefield

This print I made with Camille is now available on my Etsy.

Anniversary Print

Thanks to all who came out this past Saturday to celebrate Olive Route's 5th birthday! I had a wonderful time, hope you did too...

Once was lost! But now found!

Last fall I sent some prints to the UK to be signed by artist Mark Andrew Webber. We worked on a collabo where he cut the lino-block, mailed it to me, then I printed them and mailed them back.

Well, after he mailed me back my copies, the package got lost in post office oblivion since last October!!! We waited...and waited...and waited. We almost lost all hope and were about to file a claim with the post office. Then all of a sudden, today, they arrived!

Here's what the packaging looked like! Poor thing's been through hell and back.


































Luckily the prints remained intact and in good condition and can now be purchased from my etsy on very limited quantity. Big sigh...

It made it across the pond!

Big Yay :)

On Press: Mark Webber's Linocut, Part Two

On Press: Mark Webber's Linocut, Part One

With everything prepped (finally!) the block is ready to be printed! It was a bit hairy setting it up at first. I was having a hard time getting the press to ink the block evenly. Also, linocuts eat up LOTS of ink so it was a challenge getting it to print as dark as I had envisioned it.

Here's one of the first test prints. As you can see, it wasn't printing evenly and parts were underinked.

Pre-Press for Mark Webber's Art Print, Part Three

The last step before going to press on this project is getting the polymer plate made of the little heart in the middle which is going to be a second color.

1) Here's the negative of the scan made from Part Two then placed on a polymer plate with emulsion on it (orange surface).

linocut + letterpress = awesomeness

I had a previous post on artist Mark Webber and his massive linocut project about a week or so ago. Since then, we've been in contact regarding a collabo which will soon result in a set of special edition letterpress prints!!

He just posted this on his blog. I'm super excited to have this on press. It should be on its way to Berkeley from the UK. Will let you know how it goes :)

I love type thi------------------s much.

This is pretty amazing. Artist Mark Webber is carving out a typographic map of Paris on a linoleum block approx 5' x 6' in size. Yes, I meant to type feet NOT inches!

I love this picture, where you can see how he's camped out by his carving...


















He has been working on it for around 8 months and it's almost ready to be printed. Although finding a press large enough is causing some delay. SO, if any of you have ideas or know of someone who might have access to a gigantic press, contact him at markawebber@googlemail.com.




















Here's a map he did of Amsterdam for all you type geeks out there :) Make sure to check out his website for more of his artwork and his blog for updates on his projects.





















via Creative Review. Thanks for the tip Taylor!

Letterpress Swap Giveaway

I mentioned earlier that I participated in a Letterpress Swap organized by Kelly of Paper Stories. There were 38 participants from shops all over the United States and we each got a full set of prints to keep for ourselves. Currently, Poppytalk is hosting a giveaway of all the lovely letterpress prints to some lucky readers! Visit their blog for more info by clicking here.


























Here's a pic of my print courtesy of Bon Vivant Press, to see more images from the swap, click here. This print can also be purchased from my etsy site.

letterpress swap

kelly of paper stories organized a nationwide print swap that i was recently a part of. she just sent us this great pic of of what's soon to come in the mail--38 original letterpress prints!! talk about eye candy :)