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.

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.

Cortona Streets and Priests: Intaglio Prints!

Here are my first ever intaglio prints! These guys are etched into plates, inked up, and run through the press to produce awesome little prints. I have a long way to go before Intaglio Masterdom, but here's a start! This first one is two separate plates of a sketch I did of one of the alleyways here in Cortona, Italy.



This one is a three-plate print inspired by my recent trip to the Vatican:



And here's another version of it, a "ghost print" made by printing off of the key plate a second time:



Still having a great time in Italy...only a month left!

Screenprinted Animal Pelt Headdress

Hello all! So this past week I built this bizarre headdress. Everything on it is screenprinted and attached to the foamcore structure I built, and yes, you can wear it. Wooo!

Collaborative Installation and a Poster in Progress

It's that updatey time again! I was able to borrow my super nice friend Patrick's digital camera in order to post the following installation I recently participated in:

These pixel-esque little squares are all mono prints! My portion is the third grid from the left on the bottom row...

They are all animals at a tea party; here are a couple up close:

I made these by printing a few layers of monoprint color on plexiglass, screenprinting the animals' shapes in yellow, red, and blue, and then using a pronto plate to print the black lines.

Here's one more thing I've been working on; I took a bunch of images from google image, photoshopped them together, printed it out, then painted/glued things onto it until it became this:

But this poster isn't done yet; I've already scanned it back into photoshop, messed with it a bit more, and printed it out again. Tonight I'm going to have fun cutting it up and rearranging it, so look out for more on this soon!

New Woodcut Print

So I've been carving a print for the last few days and I just printed it yesterday. Here it is:



Sorry about the somewhat crappy picture; I'll get a better one at some point. I'm thinking of coloring one of them with watercolor, so if that happens, I'll post it here as well. To be honest, I'm getting a bit crazy having not done much 3D work recently. As soon as possible I'm going to start working on one or two more dolls; the steampunk iPod has fallen by the wayside, but will happen eventually. If you're into that kind of thing, I found one the other day that you can see here that incorporates the gramophone like I wanted mine to...awesome! On Friday I'll also post some costume designs I had to do for the play Medea. Stay tuned!

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