Hello Again!!

360 view of our gallery

So Life has now settled down, so I can tell you what all is new!!! I have been accepted into the printmaking graduate program at Ohio University, I had a very rewarding and successful thesis exhibition (pictures upcoming), and I have an upcoming show in Kentucky at Decca, while a work of mine is on exhibit in Estonia!!!! All exciting stuff huh?

Anyways I feel like now is the time to get you caught up visually on all this exciting stuff ; ) So I will start with my favorite images, those of my thesis show!!!! wooo!!!! on top is a 360 view of the complete show, both my side and my partners (Rachel Gressley).

“Collecting Stranger Things” Looking up view…

“Wrong Side of the Road”

“Stilled Life” This piece I put in the restroom, which I thought was a hilarious place to put a taxidermy form piece…

Here is a collaborative piece entitled “My Dear” created by my show partner and I. I did the CNC woodcut deers and the silkscreen printed wall backdrop is her creation.

A detail of “My Dear”

Taxidermy Art (test piece)

This work is an experimental test piece that combines printmaking and taxidermy forms. This and the rabbit piece (shown in one of my earlier posts) are both pieces of art, which are a part of my soon to be thesis show.

CMYK Litho Project

Hello again!! So I decided to skip a few projects to put up my favorite summer litho project. The reason this print is my favorite is strangely enough not due to the imagery, but instead to just how awesomely it printed, practically no scumming, awesome registration, etc. It is definitely the closest I have gotten to a perfect edition. I love how everything came out. Anyway, the imagery is of course, someone, and I won’t say its me, holding a taxidermy form in a kitchen (meaning abounds!!!). I like how my blurring of the surrounding image gives it a old and grainy feeling.

Because it is a CMYK photo plate print, I also took some photos of the layers

Here is the first layer, obviously yellow, and I kind of decided to do my layers in any order…

and the blue layer…

both prints side by side on the drying rack…

and the red layer!!!

obviously the last layer is the black one, which is shown up top, looking cool right?

Animal People and Pinata People

Hello dear reader, here are a few of my newest works, which I am rather excited about, both of these works are exceedingly small (the first being around 2.5 by 4, and the second around 3.5 by 5). The print above it is a pronto plate lithograph of an actual, much larger lithograph, which you may recognize from earlier in my blog. The second piece is something I whipped up this past Monday, The print itself is two silkscreen prints, one of which has been water colored, and then both prints have been waxed together (with the watercolor version in the middle), to give the color a subdued look. I made both for a gallery show at Manifest… so I hope I get in!!!

im|material T-shirts and Bags

So I know im|material stuff keeps popping up on here occasionally, but it has taken over my life for the past couple of semesters. Basically im|material is a student publication that I and two others started up last school year. This will be our first year going to print and it has been an amazingly huge task that will be extremely rewarding once the book is complete. Anyway, here are some images of our new bags and t-shirts that I spent a chunk of this past weekend whipping up.

here is our tumblr if you wish to check us out!!!!!! http://immaterial-publication.tumblr.com/

Litho Print in Color

Hello! So I just recently revamped my last litho project, not a whole lot of reworking the image itself, but I am definitely giving color, and layering a shot. The first image is of my first layer, and the second image has the black layer over it, but it is slightly difficult to see in this image…

Proof to Print, Show Photos

I thought it might interest a few of you to see photo’s of the printmaking clubs show opening this past Friday!!

Overall I think it went pretty well, what do you think?