Metal Letters - A is for Ox

I produced this for the Oxford Summer School brochure. Metal stamping was a very small aspect of the course, but I wanted to indicate that exciting lettering can be accessible to all.

I stamped the letters into paper and onto two copper strips. then I rolled over the letters with a lino roller. I think the way the roller offsets the prints in reverse adds an interesting dimension. I glued the copper strips onto the piece of work I used glue called "The Ultimate" made by Crafter's Mix, a water based super glue; but I preferred a glue I once used called "Liquid Nails" or something similar and which I couldn't get. The Ultimate took ages to dry.
Now this is what I had envisaged with my screen printed circle of eternity!
Perhaps I could have cut a stencil of the circle and used a roller. The only problem is that it's mechanical to cut brush strokes and a lot of nuance would get lost, but then some nuance was lost in my decision to screen print anyway. And I never knew how the screen printing would work. Maybe another day? Another expression?

I'm putting the metal letters to bed for a while now.

PS This is one of my calligraphy (pen) teaching exercises for beginners - an animal alphabet using three letter words as much as possible, usually starting A is for Ant. The reason why A is for Ox here is because the pictogram of an Ox mutated into an A.

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