Illustration Friday

This week's illustration Friday theme is tool.  My "Twisted Needle" linocut fits the bill. It's 19x24" on Bienfang Marker paper. Ink is Graphic Chemical water soluble black.  Illustration Friday

Some other recent projects, two drawings, about 5x6" and a Styrofoam relief print about the same size.

Permanent marker on upcycled food packaging.

Permanent marker on upcycled food packaging.

Graphic Chemical water soluble black on scraps of various printmaking papers.

Some not so successful prints using Styrofoam take out tray for a printing plate.

Snakes, Knives and a Spaceship...

It's Been a while since I've blogged...so here's a little update on the projects I've begun for the new year and a few hold over's from last year...

YEAR OF PRINT EXCHANGE

Year of the Snake inked plate waiting to be printed.

My snake went out a year late.  I had the plate carved for a year but other projects kept popping up and delaying its printing...so I printed it up with my Horses...

PRINTMAKING TOOLS

Back in the November of 2013 I blogged some under-paintings I started while volunteering as a Teaching Assistant for Mick Sheldon's Color Theory Class. Below are the finished acrylic and digital paintings.

 Baran

 Blue Digital Gouge

 Brayer

 Etching Needle

 Green Digital Gouge

 Maru Bake

 Orange Digital Gouge

 Twisted Needle

 Violet Gouge

Vintage Brayer

I'm currently carving plates to make 10x10" woodcut prints of six of the above images.  Once I've printed the editions I'm planning on cancelling the plates by doing encaustic paintings on top of them.

BARENFORUM.ORG PRINT EXCHANGE NO. 60

Here's a sketch for the woodcut print I'm about to start carving for a print exchange with fellow printmaker members of the www.barenforum.org group.

It's inspired by a passage I read in the book Agents of Ki by Anna Erishkigal. The book hasn't been formally published yet but you can purchase the previous books The Chosen One and Prince of Tyre in the Sword of the Gods series at Amazon.  They're available as printed and e-book versions.

What I've Been Up To...

This semester I've been volunteering in a color theory class as a teaching assistant for Mick Sheldon at American River College. Painted a lot of charts in the very cool workbook Mick created for the class.  That's because he want me to do the class work as well as help out.  Mostly I try to pay attention to what he's doing when he demo's technique so I can observe good color theory teaching techniques.  Now I'm working on the last class project where we create 10 paintings of objects using the color theory learned in class to solve specific problems.   The first thing I did was to do 7 sketched underpaintings.  I used Conte and charcoal then used a brush and water to blend it.  I only did 7 sketches because we're allowed to do 3 of the illustration in the computer so I took some photos to play with Warholizing...  Below are the 7 sketches. Later I'll post the Warholized photos.

Nibblefest Art Contest: Mushrooms

Amanita 1, image: 4x4"  paper: 8x8"

As promised here are images of the digital illustrations I created for the Nibblefest Art Contest ebay challenge.

Amanita 2, image: 4x4"  paper: 8x8"

You can scroll through an ebay search for NFAC to see more works by other artists based on the December theme of "Mushrooms"

Amanita 3, image: 4x4"  paper: 8x8"

These works are inspired by the Nibblefest theme and by the warholizing project I did for my son.