I have been learning how to letterpress for a few days now and I am really enjoying it. First we had to find a piece of text about a journey or a place so I looked into the history of Poole Quay where I found the quote "Beating of the water bounds" which is a ceremony confirming the Mayor's authority over the Port of Poole and boundaries of the harbour and dates back to the 14th Century. I started off by just using the words "water bounds" to get used to using the letterpress. I found the letters I wanted to use and put them into the order I wanted and then stuck them together using masking tape. I coated the words using black ink and used the letterpress to make my prints. When the first print came out I realised I had used an upside-down 'g' instead of an 'a' but I thought it still looked ok.


The next letterpress session we had I used the whole quote and played around with colour, texture and positioning of the words. I think the prints I created turned out really well and managed to get the word 'water' to have a colour effect off water.