I loved the seaweed from Carlsbad, beautiful spirals of green and black so I took some home and did some painted monotypes of it.
Seaweed monotypes
They started to look like the beginnings of a typeface to me so I took a quick search on google and lo and behold, there are many seaweed typefaces! Seaweed Fire is great.
Once again I set up by the Philip's camper by the shore. They were kind enough to store my press inside for the night so it wouldn't get rusty, and give me a choice shady spot for a really sunny day. It was amazing to just hear the surf and feel the breeze. As printmakers we are often in enclosed shops with our large heavy equipment so this "plein air" printing was a treat.
The morning swim's haul.
LIve, dying, and dead seaweed.
Pam printing.
Phili and Pam with their prints.
More prints of the day. They ended up looking a lot like cyanotypes. We were inspired by the blue of the sea I guess!