blacklight gif trial #1

I am trying to get an animated gif of this picture but can't seem to set it up right...

Anyway, this was my print for the Copper Palate Press Halloween blacklight party. This is my version of a Purple People-Eater (not to be confused with purple-people eaters, which could be any color, perhaps).

I'll try to get this animation thing sorted if it doesn't work.

T-shirt designs from Friday's Show at CPP

Taking pictures at museums pays off. Earlier I had a gorilla design adapted from a photo of a gorilla in one of the many awesome diaramas at the NYC Nat. Hist. Museum from a trip last year. Now I found these pictures from the same trip: An amazing diagram of a gibbon's shoulder motion also from the Natural History Musuem and a strange statue from the Met of this creepy headless pope. A bit of photoshop work and a few xeroxes later and they're ready for t-shirts!

Next I want to try to do something with this Moses statue... I like the eyes.

more krcl hoodies...

KRCL has seen a popular demand for these hoodies and just dropped off five more boxes to be printed.

KRCL Radiothon Sweatshirts!

KRCL is having their fall radiothon and they asked the CPP to print up these black hoodies with my design. The hoodie comes in a package of goodies with a $120 pledge so act quick!

THE PAST: III screenprints

Here's a look at some screenprints on paper from the recent past.
"The Augur's Song" 2008
"view from a box in the ground" 2008
"one hundred and sixty and 00/100s" 2008
"Hungry Mouths to Feed" 2008, based off eric carle's very hungry caterpillar

"sampler no. 1" 2008, my first screenprint

THE PAST II: etchings

To continue... The opposite of relief printing is... INTAGLIO! These are prints from my first etching class: I was in a pattern phase (still am, I suppose...)a quilt pattern called Lady of the lakes, this is my first etching, hard-ground, 2008
little people tied from string with textures from burlap, soft-ground, 2008
two-plates, red & brown, 2008
"36 Malformations of the Order Anura", after looking at a book about frog mutations, 2008
"Map of an Empty Room": the floor-tile-pattern used in the relief-print, "Solo", 2008

THE PAST I: relief prints

Since I have no personal website I'm using this blog as a place to dump pictures of my past work as well as new-up-and-coming projects. Here is the first of a series of picture-posts of some work completed some years ago...

These are all relief prints (commonly called block prints/ or wood-block prints, although these were all carved from sintra- a PVC like plastic material...)many small stick figures printed repeatedly in various shades of blue, 2007

"Mezcla" 2006, color reduction

"untitled" 2006, my first color reduction

"The Attack of the Grand Sophisticate: Noel Coward in NYC" 2006, my first sintra-cut print

"Solo" 2008, four plates were used, three reductive (blues, yellows, browns/greys), one key block (the black lines)

CLC continued

...more pics of my screen-printed merchandise. (PS-This is all still for sale!)

Craft Lake City! (leftover merchandise)

Yesterday, me and my studio-mates from the Copper Palate Press had a booth at Salt Lake's 2nd Annual local arts/crafts fair, Craft Lake City. Here's a sample of some of the printed merchandise I had for sale:

We are working on a website to showcase all of our work and it may be up and running hopefully in a month's time: WWW.COPPERPALATEPRESS.COM

Diana! Diana! (1-6: The Oncoming Storm) continued...

continued from the previous post...

Diana! Diana! (1-6: The Oncoming Storm)

some pictures of the etchings that my new pictorial-zine-book is made from.

back to blogging...

After a long absence, I am back to the blogging project. Sorry about neglecting my duties here.

I have two new projects to debut at SLC's second annual Alternative Press Festival: July 9, 3-9pm.

One is an affodable "zine-style" reproduction of an etching project i did for my last semester in school, bound up with a photo-copy cover design... Its called Diana! Diana!: The Oncoming Storm. The other is a fabric-book about a man who crosses a snowy plain. Its called Crossing the Snowy Plain.

I have to run to work otherwise I'd post some pictures. I have more time tomorrow though...

Untitled Etching Quilt #1

This piece is about 8"x7", etching on paper with thread. I made it by printing the same plate over and over with different colored inks (one wiped, one rolled usually), then cut-up and stitched together. I made it last year but finally framed it up for the Sam Weller's show on April 16th. Anybody seen El Anatsui's work? I wanted the piece to flow like fabric like his work does... now if only I could make one 8'x7' like his! Oh well, small things are nice too.

The Tribe of Adam & The Tribe of Eve

The artwork for these prints was finished last May, but was never fully realized the way I wanted. I envisioned a colorful woodcut background with black and white drawings floating off it. After trying and failing to do this with flimsy mylar sheets (why did I ever think this would work?), I have resorted to screenprinting the figure drawings on glass which fit into a simple black frame. And I'm quite happy with the result.

These will be on display starting April 16th at Sam Weller's bookstore on Main in Salt Lake City. I'll try to post some decent pictures and detailed shots once its installed.

The project deals with the theme of gender. I used a lot of art history references and some more modern pop culture references; the process was generally an osmotic assemblage of imagery from the three months it took to carve the blocks and draw the figures. My dad gave me an awesome book called "The Nude" for Christmas which was a major preliminary source.

I hope some of you have a chance to get over to see it close-up. I'm not exactly sure who else will have work up other than Eddie Mckenna, whose work is great and worth seeing too! I'm excited to see what he's been up to recently.

ok, good bye.

the first version of The Crystalline Garden

It has been bound! (one, anyway) This is text-weight Mohawk: PVA perfect-binding with a blank black book-cloth cover.

There are four more sets of these prints on Mohawk cover-weight that will take on different forms this summer (one accordion, one flip book, one for the wall, one something else...), not to mention the gif animation once I finish scanning each page.

Here's a quick look at what's inside:

Peopling with Paper Pulp

These prints are made from a woodblock the size of my other pink-pearl figure stamps... Abaca pulp is scooped out of the bucket and slapped down on the intaglio-wiped block, then carefully peeled off. To be sewn or arranged somehow. This is what I have waiting for me when I return from Philadelphia.

For now, I need to pack.

coloring so far