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.

Lithography Skull

I made this litho print the other day. I was experimenting a lot with stone lithography and my image started to disappear as I was printing, so I made prints with the image starting out like this:

and ending up like this:



Oh lithography, you flighty vixen. On the video front, I've been raging about cake and being an idiot in the car.

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!

Stone Litho Print

Mini update, hurrah! This is my first stone lithography print, drawn with a grease crayon:

And if you've been wondering what I've been up to, you can watch my video blog to see my new apartment and roommates or watch me gossip about Andy Warhol.

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!

More Cast Jewelry! Rhino Ring, Obelisk Ring, and Bronze Medals!

Well, here it is: the promised post about the other things I've been casting here in Italy! The first is a rhino ring that I loosely based on the Albrecht Durer rhinoceros print:









This one's an obelisk (which are everywhere in Italy) with my initials in Egyptian hieroglyphs going around it:







And finally, if you remember a looong long time ago I made this print of me battling an octopus. I thought it was about time I got some accolades for that feat, so I made myself these bronze military medals:





Less than a week left in Italy!