Letter Press Experimentation

Setting up the chase for letterpress is a stressful task but once you're practiced you start to see it becoming easier. I had to set it up multiple different ways when I first started this piece as I couldn't get a hold on which way round the letters or words should be placed.

The reason I added larger lettering in and spaced the words out is because it fits to the way the song lyric is sung. The words 'Black Treacle' were a larger point size than the rest to add emphasis as it is the name of the song. 'Tar' has been printed in italics because the word is augmented to carry on the note.

I was going to drag the ink down on the word Tar as if it was tar on the page but thought there was enough explanation in the piece already.

Black was the chosen colour because of the song title, red was used as an experiment but I added to much ink so the prints didn't come out as well as I'd hoped.






The final product is below.