Comic: Postcards or Postcards: Comic

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.7

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.6

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.5

This is one of the twice printed cards.  The red is a printed layer, and then I carved away more of the block and printed the black layer.  More alchemy text.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.4

The ink on this print had terrible adhesion; I think our blacks are getting too old.  It left the print heavily textured and incomplete looking.  I used inks to fill in the printed area more completely, and then watercolors to add ominousness to the background.  I think the text was from an article on Trump.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.3

I sent this one to Hannah.  Hannah is a fellow printmaker; I thought she might appreciate my experiments.  This is so heavily textured because I painted watercolors onto my block instead of using printing ink.  The text is from the book on alchemy I keep mining for weird phrases.

Postcards: That One with All the Faces, pt.2

I have a habit? tendency? system? of sending my sister early experiments and failures.  This is one of the earliest iterations of my self-portrait prints.  I like the white hatching I did with a white gel pen, but there's not much else remarkable about it.

Postcards: The One with All the Faces, pt.1

It's been a while since I've made prints; it seemed like a good time to play around with it.

1.) Take one face.

2.) Put it on some linoleum.

3.) Mess around with printing.

Postcards: A Cat for Maryanne

Maryanne knit me a cowl!  It is uncontestedly great.  On the outside of the package was a message.

She requested a cat card.  I am not great at cats.  Things with soft edges in general.  So I went to Pinterest, and sketched some cats.

I decided the best way to approach fur was to ink the core of the cat, and then use a wet brush to pull the fur away from the body.

Ross helped me with the characters as best he could via text; any failings are my own.

Postcards: General Dynamics

Postcards: Color Wheels galore!

Postcards: Color Wheel!

Postcards: Leviathan

Sometimes I have specific technique/skill that I want to work on, and that drives a piece more than having a precise vision.

For this one, I wanted to practice collage elements passing thru the background.  I chose this cityscape because of all the horizontal lines.

Then I looked for monsters.

Make some entry points for the monsters.

Let the monsters have at it.

Add some words.