Shan and I just celebrated our one year anniversary on Sunday. We took a quick overnight trip to Catalina to commemorate it. Catalina’s a strange and peaceful little place. Not a lot going on, but that seems to be the point. It’s managed to maintain an old fashioned vibe, and it’s amazing how Mediterranean it feels. The fact that California enjoys a Mediterranean climate is more evident on Catalina than anywhere I’ve been.
Oh yeah, and I screen printed the poster you see above. The 1st anniversary is known as the “paper anniversary”, so I couldn’t think of a more appropriate gesture. It’s a 6-color print on sky blue paper of our first home here in Pacific Beach. It’s been a great place to build a home together.
I hand cut the stencils (on rubylith), which makes me a nerd and also gives the print its handmade appeal. I’m especially proud of how the flowers came out, and the way I scattered pink and white ink among them. You can see a detail of the print and the photo it’s based on at Flickr.
This won’t mean much to anyone unfamiliar with printing, but I printed it with plastisol instead of any kind of poster ink. It’s a weird thing to do because plastisol doesn’t dry unless you heat it. I essentially had to bake the posters to get them to dry. It warped the paper a bit, but it all came out nicely in the end.
I have 5 other prints, let me know if you want to buy one for $40.
Congratulations! That’s a really great memento for your first anniversary.