Mini Update! Snake Royalty

Hello! Here's a quick print I made yesterday and today; I figured since I had done a Prince of Dogs print awhile ago, it was time the snakes got some royalty of their own. This is a 2-color letterpress print:

I drew this design with nib pens, which was super fun; I hadn't really tried them before. I think they're my new best art friend.

Letterpress French Fold Pamphlet and a question!

Hello guys! Here's what I've been working on this week: a French fold pamphlet telling a little story through illustrations. This is a reductive linoleum block-carved print that I made with a Vandercook press (which I looove!) Here's the cover:

The middle:



With closeups:







Aaaaand the back cover:



Ta da! If you're interested in the videos I've been making, I also started a fancy schmancy cooking show called Recipes to Impressipes. My first dish is homemade ice water.

BUT! I have a question for anyone who might be reading this. I've been thinking about moving this blog to tumblr recently, as it seems more image-based (which is the way I like to blog) and posts seem easier to share and spread. I also think I'd get a little more image area out of it so I wouldn't have to squash my bigger images so much to fit into this template.

The downside of this, of course, is that I'd be starting from scratch (although I'd probably copy over all my old posts) and people who read this blog would have to go/subscribe somewhere new. So my question to you is: what's your opinion? I want to do whatever is easiest for the people who read this, so please let me know!

New Litho Print, a Collaborative Book, and Videos! Hurrah!

Hello, everyone! Hope Halloween was lovely; it certainly was for me, as I got to go to a corn maze for the first time and enjoy a party from my always wonderful friend Chase. My roommate and I went as Hank and Dean Venture from the Venture Brothers because we are supernerds. But enough about that! Here's what I've been up to! This first print is a 4-color, 22x15 inch litho print, but I still want to add a couple more layers:



I also did this collaborative exquisite corpse book, in which I (and fourteen other people) made two body parts and bound them into a book, so you can flip the body parts around to get new combinations. Here are two combos with my two body parts in them:





And here's a closeup on the ones I did:





I've also made a couple videos recently: a parody of Doctor Who and a tour of Savannah with my little sister.

Hunter S. Thompson Mini Print!

So I really love the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and decided to try my hand at polymer letterpress plates by doing this mini print of a Nixon-masked crow carrying him off into the great beyond. This print is about 5 by 7 inches and has just two colors; mmmm, a little printmaking appetizer.

David Bowie Moonage Daydream Print

I am pretty obsessed with David Bowie. This is my first time printing a woodblock on a Vandercook press, and it was pretty awesome. Actually, the blue layer is just carved out of a placemat, the black layer is a woodblock, and the text is lead type. These are my four favorite Bowies: 60's mod Bowie, Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, and Labyrinth Bowie. WOOOO!

Letterpress and Litho Prints!

Hello there! After an unfortunate camera-fixing-related hiatus, here are a few litho prints I've done recently. This one's done with a pronto plate:



And this one's a plate:



And here's a small little letterpress flier I printed with hand-set wood type. These projects were kind of made to learn about lithography and letterpress processes, so look out for more interesting and complex things later!