portland night

I went to Portland Tuesday night to hang out with Jeff and cut some wood in his shop.

We were broke and had chili dogs.

And boxed wine.

Maurice the dog.

Next mornings breakfast.

Clint & Mona

Our friends Clint & Mona came to visit last weekend.

We took them to the market.

The Seattle center.

The Music Express.

The Experience Music Project

Ceiling reflection.

Went to see the Hatch Show Print and the sci-fi exhibit.

Space Noodle.

Seattle graffiti.

Hatch Show Print

Melissa enrolled me into a letterpress / printing workshop with Jim Sherraden - the manager of a famous letterpress shop in Nashville called Hatch Show Print. It was one of the best days in a long time...

He has work on display at a museum here in Seattle. This is the poster for his lecture.

Jim Sherraden with student work hanging behind.

Very old, historic plates we got to print with - pre ink.

Teaching some of his techniques.

Inked plates.

More inked plates.

He told us the story behind a lot of the plates. 

Here's some of the stuff I printed throughout the day:

At the end of the day, he signed and gave everyone a print of one of his famous images.

This guy teaches at SVC (School of Visual Concepts). He restored that press.

More beautifully inked plates.

Look Jeff, similar to my 5x7 press!

This is about 5' tall and was printed with a steamroller in the parking lot!

Poster for his show at the EMP.

Lots of metal type.

SVC is the best. I can't wait to take more classes here.

dog

Been a while since Finch was on the blog,

garage art

I like these graphics. The hands are 6 or 7 feet tall...

Alpental

Jeff came to visit from Portland.  We went snowboarding on Saturday. It started out bad, but ended up good. I hardly took any photos.

Russian Hat!

Jeff geared up.

Nice creek.

Alpental!

More scenery.