Truth In Advertising

I had no idea what printmaking was until I decided to get a degree in it. I'm teaching Intro To Print next fall and I'm worried that no one will take it because they don't know what it is or what is could be. So I decided to make some posters and hang them up around the art dept. to drum up interest. Two colour linocut that I planned and cut in less than 20 minutes total. A new record, I'm lucky I didn't cut myself.



Then while I was at it, I decided to print some thank you cards...

An Authentic Fake

How do you arrange things in a random pattern?

My birdhouse so far.  Most of this will be covered up by bigger, more elaborate murals.  This is really just the underpainting.

Presented Without Comment

I give up

I wash my hands of this print.  For now anyway.  Even though I've been slowly working on it for months, I still don't have time to get it together for SGC.  The other problem is that my press bed isn't quite big enough to allow for any sort of proper registration.  So here it is in two colours as it sits on the left in my studio.

Not exactly...

I'm sure this isn't what Habitat for Humanity meant...

I still have to paint the stucco to look like stucco and then...the tagging.

Urban Blight In Bird Populations

I was invited to "decorate" a birdhouse for a charity auction to benefit Habitat for Humanity.  I have an idea for what I'm going to do, but I think if they're going to wish that I hadn't done one at all once they see it finished.  Here it is in black primer:

And here are my first tests of the urban blight stucco/brick look that I'm going for.

Hint: the rest of my idea involves tagging and wheatpasting.

Terror in Paisley

Becky decided to make some postcards while I was at work today, so I left her in the studio to make a linocut.  Here she is printing them...

Here they are drying:

The terror alert has been raised to paisley.

A week of getting nothing done

How is it possible that things that won't start for another 6 months are getting in the way of me getting anything done right now?

Either way, here's a quick in wash drawing of an empty wine bottle.


And further cutting.

Slowly but surely

Will this print ever be done? I have to compromise and go with a key block approach, rather than pure blocks of colour as I wanted to do, but that would have involved planning. Maybe next time. What you see here is a proof of two colours from the same block, a reductive proof I suppose. I think I might cut the final down to just two colours in the interest of getting it done in time for the exchange.