Spirit Dove Story

If you look to the right side of the photo you can see my Copper Dove.  I was bloging for Peace that morning.  On that morning none of the copper scrap peices were etched.  A lot of etching and printing has happened over the years since.

I started organizing the plates for printing in 2022.  It was a slow process making the template and proofing the stages of printing the plates.

I had to organize what could be printed each Print day.

Then a plate had to be made for the first color.  I used poster board covered in screen filler.

I love making plates with kids poster board coated in screenfiller. It is amaxing how well it holds up to lots of editioning.

I made another Template of just poster board to cover the Dove when I was printing the backgrounds.  This project took untill 2023 to finish, just because life stuff got in the way.  Very glad to be alive.

That is the short version of the Spirit Dove story.  I am retired from teaching these day but I love to share my printing journey.  why I am retired from teaching?  It is a lot of fuss and preparation:)  I just want to print! But volunteer teaching to raise money for the Ottawa/Gatineau Printmakers Connective Print Studio is fun.