Grief is a Stone Cards

 Along the way of printing and preparing the book-ets, I took a brief moment to print an extra 10 cards, just in case...

As ever, with letterpress printmaking, the hard work is all in the selection, set up and lock up whereas the printing sometimes happens in a trice. So I tried to make best use of all the hard work, without overdoing things and creating far too many things to ever be used, needed or wanted.

The cards were in a box - Fabriano Maediovalis and I am trying to find ways to use up the many papers I have accumulated over the years, so I also felt as if I was doing a good thing by trying this. The cards are relatively small, holding-in-the-hand size.

It was clear they looked pretty plain and ordinary, so I thought to add some watercolour pebbles to them.

I painted five small pebbles along the bottom of each 'title page'. With three poems, in an edition of 10, this required 150 pebbles to be painted.

As ever, I adore the look of multiples...

They are almost complete - one more thing to add in and they too shall be ready.