Christa Carleton

A dog licking her chops wearing a candy corn hat next to a letterpress type cabinet and a print of a very glum jack o lantern.

Happy #halloween month from favorite Candy Corn gal.

Made myself a #glumpumpkin using #woodtype & a #letterpress! How many of u have seen the cartoon “The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile”?

#halloween #jackolantern #pumpkin

The aliens meme guy from the history channel is saying “.918” for letterpress type high day.

#letterpress printers today be like:

It’s true there are risks, but generally if I wash my hands and don’t eat or drink while handling the type it lowers the risk significantly. Now a type caster working w/ molten type fumes—I’m not so sure!

Often referred to as “lead type,” it is really an alloy of 54-86% lead, 11-28% antimony & 3-18% tin. Antimony hardens the metal. Tin toughens the metal, counteracting the brittleness of antimony➡️ But what’s on my hands is dust & dirt accumulation b/c the drawers were stored unused & outside 4 some ⏰

My black and tan dog, Cokie Roberts, snoozing on a beach towel on the sand next to a bonfire at night.

My black and tan rescue dog, Cokie Roberts, getting a belly rub in the vibrant green grass of summer. Her eyes are closed and she’s very relaxed.

✨So hers can look like this:✨

Dirty hands stained with dust and grim are palm up in the foreground, resting on a pale sea foam green letterpress type case that is filled with dirty individual lead letters.

#letterpress My hands look like this:

Holding a chipboard postcard that says ‘made with human intelligence’, printed from 19th century type and ornament.

A 21st century postcard made with 19th century tech. #letterpress

Today’s print…
#printmaking #letterpress #democracy

A signature melon salad for Montana Transforming a summertime delicacy from Dixon.

Transforming a summertime delicacy from Dixon.

An old school motel is in the foreground in rusty red and desert colors. A backdrop of fluffy clouds and blue sky with mountains is in the background.

Stumbled upon #wesanderson in Idaho today.

Congratulations! I like when folks get the recognition they deserve!

Thanks all for suggestions! I found one I’m enjoying “The Ancients” a podcast for fans of Ancient History 🤓

The foreground is covered in lilac purple flowers. The middle ground shows an old wildfire burnt forest. The background distant mountains. The sky is azure blue with many puffy clouds.

A large swathe of purple wildflowers covers a meadow on a blue bird day.

A penstemon super bloom.

#wildflowers #meadow #frolicworthy

Two letterpress printed posters are propped up in my studio. The one on the left is printed in green and pink and says “another world is possible”, the other print on the right says “when cruelty becomes normals compassion looks radical”.

#NoKings ready thanks to a little help from pals in the Missoula community.

#letterpress #poster #woodtype #art #printmaking

This is a process print from a recent #letterpress edition. Spring in motion.

I made this #exlibris print for a friend. Bright and cheerful for spring!

#letterpress #printmaking #centaur

Anyone got any good #podcast recommendations that aren’t super newsy/current events? (I listen to plenty of those already) I really despise banter/interview styles and prefer a sweeping story told. I sincerely miss podcasts like The Truth and Heavyweight and I love Criminal and This is Love. Help!

My kinda bonfire

Dayum! That is slick!

Christa Carleton’s studio is pictured. There are multiple letterpress type cabinets against the walls, some are robin’s egg blue, others green, and one a dark grey. The walls are decorated with other artist’s prints. On the floor is a black and tan dog in her dog bed, laying down, looking at the camera. Her name is Cokie Roberts. To the right of the photo is a large Master Printer Sign Press.

Studio views, wish I was there right now.

#printshop #printmaking #letterpress #typecabinet #printing #printingpress #artstudio #printstudio #artistsstudio

A woodcut print with a female figure standing in the center. Her acid green hair glows to the right of the page while her brows furrow and and hand fist up against her mouth. Above her head is the word “take” and below her waist is the word “cover” both in a bold San serif in a gradient warm grey. The background color is a cool paynes grey.

A close up of the figure’s face. She has acid green eyes that match her hair. The facial expression is simultaneously pissed off but guarded.

A close up photo of the windswept acid green hair. This shows off the texture of the woodcut which highlights the grain of the birch plywood when it’s printed as a woodcut.

My newest print! “Take Cover" #Woodcut, E.V. of 25 (b/c some prints are on Mulberry & the other paper is Cougar) Mulberry here measures 25"x31". I printed this with the talented students at The University of Utah!

#printmaking #reliefprint #art #linocut #figureart #blendroll #print #currentevents

I love that Tonja Torgerson’s and I’s free prints from Body Politic are being used in this context!

#risograph #letterpress #chromaticwoodtype #enough #protestart #handsoff #montana #protest

Six Centuries of Type & Printing book (green cloth cover, foil stamping at top in bronze showing title and author) at left; digital previews of three two-page spreads with illustrations at right, stacked one above the other

I’m one week (& 40%) into crowdfunding Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a concise hardcover book that will teach you exactly everything you wanted to know about how we went from the first forays into inking letters on paper to today’s digital marvels. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Six suited men posing in the doorway of a shop adorned with signs for the Raiford Sign Co.

'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe at the American Sign Museum' is the latest at bl.ag online, where I get to indulge my fetish for photos of old sign painting shops and related tangents.

https://bl.ag/ye-olde-sign-shoppe-at-the-american-sign-museum/

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A container where folks can empty their reusable bottles before going through TSA security where large amount of liquids are not allowed. It whispers my name to drink from it…

Every time, I am tempted by the devil to drink from the forbidden airport cocktail.

Lotta winners in there! 😍

A photo of letterpress moveable type made out of wood with numbers and letters A through Z. Missing letters K and V and some punctuation. It’s old and dirty but has a nice patina from being printed in past lives.

Happy mail day to me 😬

#woodtype #letterpress #font #archimedes #mansard

Before and after ink!

#woodcut #printmaking #reliefprint #linocut #notactuallyLinobutWTV

Blue sky I want to love you but sharing on evil meta is still easier as an image based artist…

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall— I mean all the blocks of my latest #wooduct