First Friday Nov 2

I'm very excited to be showing in a new space this Friday.
It's a raw and exciting space that takes me back to my
early & heady first fridays as an art student.
This group show is in the parking garage
across Baltimore St from Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.
Come by and see me. I'll have prints for sale & an appetite for conversation.
tArvis

Ghost Ranch

Ghost Ranch
3 color screen print
12"  18.5"
limited edition of 25
$50 unframed
photo & design by tArvis © 2012
print by Nick Nihara

Giralda Tower

Giralda Tower

3 color screen print

12"  18.5"

limited edition of 25

$50 unframed

photo & design by tArvis © 2012

print by Nick Nihara

Desert Flowers

Desert Flowers
3 color screen print
12"  18.5"
limited edition of 25
$50 unframed
photo & design by tArvis © 2012
print by Nick Nihara

Chimú Block Prints

Chimú (Crimson & Coal)

2 color linoleum block print

12" x 18.5"

open edition

$25 unframed

designed & printed by tArvis © 2012

Chimú (Dark Chocolate & Han)

2 color linoleum block print

12" x 18.5"

open edition

$25 unframed

designed & printed by tArvis © 2012

Chimú (Graphite & Green)

2 color linoleum block print

12" x 18.5"

open edition

$25 unframed

designed & printed by tArvis © 2012

Plaza Art Fair 2012

BIG Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend!
I met a lot of great people & saw a lot of familiar faces.

that's travis "tArvis" porter

Here are the top 3 sellers from the 2012 Plaza Art Fair:
Chimú (Primaries), The Kauffman Center & Ghost Ranch

Art Westport 2012

tArvis (left) & Chris (right)
see more art lovers at the Pitch Online

Big thanks to all those who came and supported me at Art Westport this year! Last weekend's success has me really excited for nest weekend at the Plaza Art fair. Here are the top sellers from Art Westport last weekend: Lewis & Clark 01, Lewis & Clark 04 and The Kauffman Center.

First Friday in August

Mid American Arts Alliance

2018 Baltimore Ave.

Kansas City, Mo

Stage set up for MAAA First Friday Concert.

This First Friday I'll be at Mid American Arts Alliance sandwiched between VML &  Leedy Voulkos. Come check out my prints and chat with me in the AC from 7pm-9pm. And stay for a free concert with the Rainmakers from 8pm-10pm.

Cicadas

Chimú 4 colors

First color blue. 

Second color red.

Third color yellow.

Fourth & final color black.

Chimú

tArvis ©2012

13" x 17"

4 color linoleum print

Over printing detail of Chimú. Note there are hints of
green, purple and orange even though only the primaries
blue, red and yellow were printed.

You got it. The overprinted primary colors mix to create
secondary colors.

For more detailed pictures of the actual printing process
follow this link.

And finally our kitchen & dinning room covered in prints,

as I try to print up at least a 20 piece edition. Imagine this

happening not once, not twice, not even three times, BUT

four times in one week. 

Every color is one time through the press. So with a four

color print there is a lot of drying time. Also to get a solid 

20 prints I sent more like 25 through the press. Sometimes

the Printmaking Gods are unkind and not every piece

prints well. (despite what you see in this picture)

Chimú 3 color

Chimú
tArvis © 2012
13" x 17"
3 color linoleum print

over printing detail

Below is the printing sequence. I worked it out using Adobe Illustrator.

 

1. blue

2. red printed over the blue

3. black overprinting both

Brookside Art Annual, May 5th - 7th

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.

Fire 2012 (Chimú)

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.

And here is the black plate.

Fire in the Sky (Chimú)
tArvis © 2012
13" x 17"
2 color linoleum print
$25