When you go to see an exhibition you almost expect that there will be postcards or some small souvenir you can take home with you. To this end I've been making a few little books, with the kind help of the long-suffering Tony, who happens to have a wonderful printer. This 8-page book is printed on "metallic" paper, two books per sheet, each to be folded and put into a slipcase -
Then we tried to print a 16-page book that I'd written on layout paper. I really liked the flimsy paper (60gsm?) and hoped to print it out on layout paper too. The thinnest paper Tony happened to have was quite thick and the print looked quite dull - and it turned out to be quite difficult to fold -
This involved a trip to the art store to get some A3 layout paper, and putting that paper through the printer resulted in a lot of torn sheets - well, two - no point in keeping on trying. Afterwards, printing on anything resulted in blobs of ink. Oops ... sorry, Tony ...
After a bit of a rest and a chance to clean its heads, the printer decided to cooperate. Any further books-for-sale will be produced via the photocopier.
Tony is totally prepared, all his photos beautifully framed and labelled, and the "portfolio pieces" ready to walk out the door in their tidy sleeves. The size A0 posters will go in the large windows of the gallery - and so will dozens (I hope) of the little boats, which have yet to be made and threaded with invisible thread for hanging -
These boats were printed on tracing paper on my laser printer (black and white). A careless swipe of the hand, and the toner comes off - so they are folded with the printed side safely, and cleanly, inside.
Then we tried to print a 16-page book that I'd written on layout paper. I really liked the flimsy paper (60gsm?) and hoped to print it out on layout paper too. The thinnest paper Tony happened to have was quite thick and the print looked quite dull - and it turned out to be quite difficult to fold -
This involved a trip to the art store to get some A3 layout paper, and putting that paper through the printer resulted in a lot of torn sheets - well, two - no point in keeping on trying. Afterwards, printing on anything resulted in blobs of ink. Oops ... sorry, Tony ...
After a bit of a rest and a chance to clean its heads, the printer decided to cooperate. Any further books-for-sale will be produced via the photocopier.
Tony is totally prepared, all his photos beautifully framed and labelled, and the "portfolio pieces" ready to walk out the door in their tidy sleeves. The size A0 posters will go in the large windows of the gallery - and so will dozens (I hope) of the little boats, which have yet to be made and threaded with invisible thread for hanging -
These boats were printed on tracing paper on my laser printer (black and white). A careless swipe of the hand, and the toner comes off - so they are folded with the printed side safely, and cleanly, inside.
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