Week 6 - #1

This week was my second attempt to book a Risograph appointment in the printmaking studio and I was successful! I was able to print all eight pages of my manuscript. I printed them all on A3 pages and made about 10 copies of each page. Since I will be adding my own illustrations and paintings by hand I thought it would be useful to have that many copies in case I make mistakes.

I used 220 Cartridge paper for my manuscript which is the thickest and nicest quality the Edinburgh Student Art Shop has and the thickest size the printer accepts. I wanted to get the closest version of the authentic manuscript scrolls that used thick parchment paper.

One of the hard decisions I made was where to use auto-aligned text with or without hyphenates. I wanted to stay true to the authentic historical manuscripts in that they had straight columns of text, but I wanted to avoid using hyphenates as the story written in Scots dialect in the gothic font is already difficult to read. I’m not entirely happy with the rivers flowing through the text but as an artistic choice I prefer it to hyphenates.