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!

EARGASM! Quick Print Update!

Here's a superquick print update...this is a woodblock print with a keyblock and a second block all jigsawed out so that I could ink the pieces individually and print all the colors in one go. EARGASM!



And here it is without the background, coming soon to a t-shirt near you!



Still having a blast in Italy...look out for more jewelry etc. soon!

"Anywhere But Here" woodcut print

Hey there! It's that time again...print time! The theme for this one was "anywhere but here," so here's my interpretation:



I forgot to take a picture of the first layer (the lightest blue), but here are the second and third layers out of four:





I'm really happy with the way this turned out; I hope you like it!

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!

Woodblock print of I Monster's "These Are Our Children"

So here's my newest print, which I did with four separate blocks. I had to choose a song or band to represent, so I chose I Monster's "These Are Our Children." I listened to a shitload of music before I settled on this one, but I couldn't resist the creepy children's chorus. Here was my preliminary sketch:



And here's the final product with closeups (sorry, forgot to take in progress shots this time!)









Yep. I know the registration's a little off, but I found out a way to fix it that I'll use next time. I couldn't find a link to the specific song, but they have an album called These Are Our Children that you can download here.

First Woodcut Print

Hello! So over the weekend I finished my first woodcut print. The wood was more difficult to carve than linoleum (big splinters kept breaking off when I was trying to work on details) but I suppose I'm generally pleased with how it turned out. I carved into the same piece of wood four times and print them all on top of each other, and I took a picture of each step so you can see how the print is put together. First of all, here's the final print:



OK, so here are all four layers in the order I printed them in:





The print is of Camden Town in London...one of the coolest places I've visited. Hope everyone had a lovely weekend and hopefully I'll post again soon!