Around this time last year I posted a few surviving Christmas card designs that my Dad did to give to friends, family and clients from the early to late 1970s. While he got the later ones professionally printed, the earlier ones he printed himself by creating the image as a lino cut, covered the lino in ink and printed it by passing the card and inked lino through an old mangle to mimic a printing press, kind of like a homemade etching. While tidying up a few months back I came across several prints of another design amongst some of his work. I don't remember this one but it's quite striking in it's graphic grainy simplicity. These are probably experiments in colour to see which version worked best. Personally the middle one works best for me. What do you think? I have no idea when he did this one, but I expect it's the early 70s. Love it...
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