alligator in the closet

Posted on March 6, 2012 by ten

Well, my next set of prints I think went better. I have a couple of them to show. the plate that I made with photopolymer then the prints from the plate. I am using hand printing on these because of the transparency paper is delicate and it is also hard to work with the ink sit on top of the paper so have to be very careful about laying it down or it will smear on the paper.

: 1. plate of gator

: 2. Gator in the closet

: 3. plate conquer the world

: 4. I will conquer the world

As far as how these dreams go. Well it is the classic dream I had when i was little about there being gators in the closet so we had to keep the door open. The next one is from a computer game that I played growing up and of course if you did everything right you can conquer the world.

making first print for dream book

Posted on February 29, 2012 by ten

Well, I started working on my first plate. I am going to do a lot of these prints with a photopolymer printing method. So I have worked on creating my first prints.
Well my first two plates, they didn’t work out as well as I expected because I forgot to inverse out the image as is done with photopolymer printing and my plates are the opposite of what I thought they would be. Oh well it was just a test to see if I remember how and I guess I didn’t.

: 2. Red velvet dog print on transparent paper

: 1. redvelvet dog plate

book cover wrap…

Posted on February 28, 2012 by ten

well the book cover wrapping didn’t work as well as I thought….I didn’t really like it…. I did like how the book opens up to show the book so I think I will keep this format and maybe make a cloth cover for it…I will see.

: 3. Japanese paper with rectangular design

: 2. Book Cover box with copper plate prints on top

: 1. book cover box

cover for dream book

Posted on February 27, 2012 by ten

Well I started on my thesis project because well that is kinda important for my last year at school yeah I know. and well the show is in April so I better get started….
So my thesis is on Hybrid Art which is just the mixing of traditional methods and process with new technology. My work primarily deals with working in the adobe suits and traditional printmaking methods.
I started working on my book cover for my choose your own dream book and so wanted to wrap the cover of the book with some copper plate prints that I etched. So I made 2 different copper plate etches one that had a circular pattern and one that had a more rectangle pattern. I have printed these on Japanese paper, and I am going to wrap the cover of my book with the prints. The cover of the book will be more like a box because my book will be a book that binds on 4 sides, and you can have a choice to turn 1 of 4 different pages. So we will see how it goes.

: prints drying

: Circular pattern prints, with a combination of colors on one plate

: Close up of rectangular design print

Junk I can’t throwaway “stickers”

Posted on February 26, 2012 by ten

Well, my next zine in this section is stickers, I have collected and scanned all my stickers, and even got some more to create this zine……I know…

: Cover of Sticker Zine

: Spread of Sticker Zine

: Spread of Sticker Zine

: Spread of Sticker Zine

: Spread of Sticker Zine

: back cover of Sticker Zine

These are some sample pages from the zine. There was about 26 pages.

Hatch show workshop

Posted on February 25, 2012 by ten

I got to participate in a letterpress printing workshop and here are some of the posters that I did. It was a great experiences and I learned a lot.

: Hatch Show Print sun

: Rodeo

: Better than a Circus

: Dust Free

: Hatch Show Print

: Answer the call

This are old-fashion wood type letters and words for the most part and we inked them up and printed them on poster sheets and on t-shirts.

Junk I cant throw away “calenders”

Posted on January 7, 2012 by ten

Well, my first foray in to making zines, I didn’t know what to do, but as I looked around my apartment, I thought what is all this stuff doing here. I cant seem to get this place uncluttered, I love this stuff but I don’t know why I have to have it. I don’t need it, don’t use it, or wont use it (candles to many). Then I thought why not make it into a book for more people to see….besides then I will have copies of stuff, you know just in case, something happens…the apocalypse, someone decides sticker books are worth a fortune, fire, flood, well you get the idea….

So I started with calenders that I have saved over the years. I liked the pictures in them and saved them for this I guess. First I decided since I could find 12 calenders why not make this zine beneficial and put a 2012 month on each page. Then I took a snapshot of one sample page from each calender and created the zine.

: 1. cover of calender zine

: 2. January, Febuary

: 3. March, April

: 4. May, June

: 5. center spread

: 6. July, August

: 7. September, October

: 8. November, December

: 9. end page of calender zine

: 10. printed cover of Calender zine

: 11. printed sample inside spread

: 12. printed sample inside spread

ordinary to handcrafted

Posted on December 17, 2011 by ten

Well I was trying out lino-cut hand printing at my house to see how well it would work. In my past projects I have printed on press, so I wanted to see how well it would work without a press. Also I wanted to take something ordinary and create something that was one of a kind.

: 1. ink and roller, ready to print

: 2. linocut blocks, rolled up with ink, ready to print

: 3. linocut block, with tissue print

: 4. linocut block with postit note print

: 5. close-up of postit notes print

I have already carved out my lino-cut block prints and they are ready to go. First of all I layout my ink on my glass coffee table and roll out the ink with my roller. See image 1. Then I ink up my lino-cut blocks See image 2. I have the designed carved into the blocks, the ink sits on the surface of the block and shows up black the gold color is the color of the lino-cut and it will be the color of whatever paper or printing material I use. I am using tissues to print on for several reason. First, I want to see how well they will hold up to hand printing with it tear? will it stick? Second, I think tissues are boring lets change them up a bit. I take the tissue out of the box, straighten it out and lay it across the lino-cut block in front of me. Then I take another piece of paper and lay it down over the top to protect the tissue. Then I use a bank statement or a credit card statement, that I have never opened, whatever is in the paper scrape pile and put it over the top. The I press the paper down and rub my hand gently across the whole surface in a circular motion. Then I pull up the scrape paper, and carefully pull up the tissue. yeah! It worked. See image 3. I printed on several more object just see how it would work. I think the best one was the post-it notes see image 4 and 5.

life imitates art

Posted on December 13, 2011 by ten

Well, I was in a Dallas parking lot over the Thanksgiving holiday and as I was walking to the car, I noticed this in the cement.

: Dead Frog in Cement

: Dead Frog in Cement

: The Dead frog’s toes are even visible

: Departed

: Defunct

: Deceased

This reminded me of my Dead Frog series I had done about a year earlier. The inspiration for this series, was that I had seen some smashed dried frogs on the road when I was walking. Then the idea evolved from there. Then in the cement my art was there in real life.

finally finished

Posted on December 2, 2011 by ten

Well I have completed the book.

: 1. Cover of Lucky Ducky Dog Book

: 2. I hate bears

: 3. I love to kill rats

: 4. My nemesis is Mr. Peacock

: 5. the end

I wanted to show some pictures of the completed book. I have chosen some of my favorites. these images communicate what I was after, which is about a little dog that gets a new home and the new things he experiences his first summer there.