Hyenas, Crocodiles and Vultures, oh my!

The last 48 hours have be the most printense in. my. life. A collective 23 hours in the print has yielded this:

Humility
6x4 Aquatint

Knowledge
6x4 Aquatint 

Patience
6x4 Aquatint 

Goannas & Cicadas
6x4 Aquatint 

Herons & Hornets
9x6 Aquatint 

Cottage
18x12 Linoleum

Finally finished!

All done in aquatint. And now I sleep.

My New Habitat

Its pretty bare at the moment and I'm not satisfied with the furniture arrangement, but its home!

Old School

Check out this blast from the past that I never photographed until now

This was a color study for my color theory class. We were given three images to choose from. This is a background from Disney's Snow White. I even painted birds on acetate but they sucked so I threw them away after the project was done. Its all done in water color on a 22x30  300lb sheet ripped to size. I'm still really proud of it. There aren't a lot of class projects that I've done over the years that I can say that about this long after the fact.

A New Quarter, Same Old Beatdown

On man. SO MUCH PRINTMAKING. My hands will never not be black again. Week two and I've already logged way too many hours.

Renaissance style insanity. Saint Svetlana, patron of the black hand printmakers

My first lino from my reinventing the landscape, hand pressed, itty bitty thing.

The original sketch.

The original view. I want to do a larger one with more detail and explore the texture more thoroughly.

Sketch for my first etching

Here is the first proof, both hard and soft ground used.

Sketch for my next one.

Cast From Eden Color Edition

I apologize for the awful quality of the photograph. This has been hand painted with watercolor.

Post-Portfolio Burnout

I had huge plans for my spring break you know. A list a mile long of things I wanted to work on, personal projects I've been mulling over and sketching for over a year. Did I do any of that? Nope. I prowl the net looking at other peoples work wishing I was half as driven. The rest feels good though, I start again next quarter with two printmaking classes an art history and a painting class. So perhaps its for the best that I let my brain rest. Well my pigs and blanket are ready.

Final Portfolio for Drawing

"Pear Tree Still Life" 18x24; charcoal

"Untitled" 22x3; prismacolor and white charcoal

Final Project WIP Detail

Final Project WIP Detail

"Arboretum" 18x24; charcoal

"Cathedral" 18x24; charcoal

Litho Final Portfolio: I R printmaker.

The quarter has come to an end and of course this means, final portfolios. Consensus: quarter systems sucks. I only got to do three lithographs, and no color. However as you may have counted there are four, naturally this is because I'm one of those over achieving types.Well kinda, like when I feel like it.

Lepurberus edition of 4

First project, which took for freaking ever. I think I printed 5 weeks into the class. This was all done in  tusche crayon.

And Then the Forest Began to Sing edition of 4

 This was the project I was excited about, the liquid tusche. It paints like a dream and oh man the texture you can get from the reticulations is gorgeous. Anyways this was a experiment of happy accidents. I over etched the hell out of this thing. One pass and it was black. Plus the conte crayon was too thick when I drew the houses and clouds and it left a white outline that looks like they were backlit. 

"The Devil You Think You Know" Artist proof
Oh hello problem child. I had a total Fuck Yeah Art Student Owl moment with this little bitch. Drawing goes perfect, colored in relative speed. One day before final portfolio due: Colossal clusterfuck. I forgot some pretty crucial steps. Lesson here: don't rush. Anyways so the only decent print was a artist proof. I love the image and how it was going to turn out so I'll try again soon. Next time I'm going to stain the paper before I print.

"Cast From Eden" edition of 6

So at the beginning of the semester I discovered that you could buy a pack of 30 polyester plates for relatively cheap at dickblick and print in an etching press. Oh Yes. A safety net. Anyways this has been printed on watercolor paper and will be hand painted. 

Ahhh Yeaaah Christmas in..Spring Quarter.

Beginning of the quarter always hurts so good. You remember that feeling as a kid when you got your school supplies? The new crayons and markers, pencils and pencil boxes? Multiply that by a thousand for art students. Both in the feeling and the price. Next quarter is all about printmaking and painting, so freaking excited. I just got all my supplies for the quarter.

WIP it good!

Only four weeks left in the quarter...battle stations!

The assignment was single point perspective with windows and door...I went a little over board