It was an ordinary day. Today's story will show you a few more greeting cards that were sent to me by Mr. Paul Grout who taught art at Manheim Township High School with me. He later retired from teaching and became a minister. His artistic talent and love of his students was unbelievable. I'm sure it was a really tough choice to make when he decided to leave teaching and go into the ministry. He sent me many greeting cards over the years, but I have chosen just a few to share with you. The final cards today are cards that I made for our family to send at Christmas. I have given you some information about how they were made. Hope you enjoy the cards as well as the coming Christmas Holiday. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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| This card and the following four cards were made by Paul Grout. Click to enlarge them. |
The final cards are cards that I made over the years that I taught high school at Manheim Township. I have explained how a few were made when it was necessary to do so.
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| This card I drew in pen and ink and printed on the offset press. My children added the color to the tree on each card. Click on cards to enlarge them. |
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| This card was silkscreened. I cut the design for the brick wall and also the letters into silkscreen material. That material was attached to a piece of silk and printed with a squeegee. |
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| This was also silkscreened. |
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| This was silkscreened and then hand colored by my children. |
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| Hand cut and silkscreened in three colors |
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| Silkscreened |
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| Silkscreened in 3 colors |
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| Silkscreened in 5 colors. |
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| Silkscreened in 3 colors |
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| Silkscreened on red paper with white ink. |
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| This one I did by cutting the design into a piece of linoleum. I printed it by moistening the paper and placing it on top of the linoleum block and pressing it under pressure with a magazine between the paper and the press. No ink was used. |
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