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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Lewis & Clark Viaduct 02 Process Work

original image

digitally altered negative of image

image as it will look printed

original image

altered image used to create screens

image as it looks screen printed on black paper

original

altered

final

1st layer of screen print

2nd layer of screen print

3rd and final layer screen print

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

First Friday in March - animated poster!

I tried to animate this poster in way that you could see

the individual images / perspectives that make up the composition.

The final screen prints are way cooler and you should come down

and see them for yourself. This coming First Friday. March 2nd at

Boveri Realty in the Crossroads, 1819 Wyandotte suite 200 upstairs.

Come say hi, have some refreshments and lemme tell you about the art.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Fire 2012

Here is a little behind the scenes post to show you my process as well as the amount of work that goes into creating a print that is rather simple looking.

Sketch inspired by Master Weavers of the Toadlena & Two Grey Hills Region,

a recent show at The Wheelwright Museum In Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Here I am filling in the pattern with pencil on a grid before I begin to cut the linoleum.

This is the "red" plate.

This is the "black" plate.

Linoleum shavings. This is approximately 1 evening's worth of lino shavings.
Roughly about 2-3 hours work.

Here is a rough cut of the "black" plate. At this point I have gone over this design 3 times.

With the 1st pass I made a shallow cut around the edges of the design using a small V shaped No 1 blade. This way when the graphite smears away I still have my pattern line.With the 2nd pass I scoop out large pieces of lino using a C shaped No 5 blade. At this point the plate begins to take shape and looks like lo-relief. On the 3rd pass I use a larger V shaped No 2 or 3 blade to add sharper detail and clean up the edges of the pattern.

Finally on the forth pass I use a No 4 blade to flatten out the ridges created earlier with the 5 blade.

Here is the "red" plate inked on press. You can see the small blocks of wood I have cut to serve as furniture to hold the lino plate in place. I should mention at this point the plate is mounted to particle board.