With Love and Blades

Old collage notebook

These collage pieces are from a collage notebook I started a few years back. I stopped after about a week because it became irritating, and I never returned. Regardless, I believe this excursion into stitching images together was a lesson in developing a better understanding of composition and color relationships, and it must have helped me in some way because I've kept the notebook. Of all the artwork I've thrown away over the years, this notebook (which I can only take credit for the pasting) has remained. I suppose it has a relationship to printmaking, and I can see how this experiment could have developed my interest in chine colle. But in the end I think it was just another way to defeat artist's block.

burning roses and a broken rainbow

Oh sketchbook, you are such a great pal! A large THANK YOU to all the sketchbooks of the world, and those beyond the world. You provide solace for uncountable imaginations, and with each image we bring you life. So to all sketchbooks and their equivalent, we thank you. Take a bow!

The monotype

These are some monotypes I created in college. The monotype, or monoprint, is a printmaking process where only one print can result (hence the name) in contrast to an edition which is possible with other printmaking mediums. The reason for this is that you are essentially creating a painting on a surface (with ink, or watercolor) that will be trasferred to a piece of paper. Once the image has been printed, a "ghost" image is left behind on the surface the artist painted on. This is a faint impression of the original image. The artist can then print the ghost image, alter it by adding or subtracting to the image, or simply paint the image again using the ghost image as a guide. No matter what, the image will almost never be the same twice (I say almost because anything's possible). It's also fun to combine printmaking techniques, like in "Knife Stab" where I used chine colle (a printmaking process where the artist glues paper to paper. not as easy as it sounds) in addition to monotype.

Creature Parade #3

From left to right: geeblish, squid boy, tumble teeth, treaz-tranoria, mollusk tick, and occuli bog mouth. Try tapping on the glass because it makes them grow. I don't know what to tell you next, just enjoy!

Creature Parade #2

Here is another collection of fine specimens. From left to right we have: whisp, lunar weevil, bison diptera, and a carpet angler.

Once Upon A Dark, Regurgitating Forest

I need to get back into a printmaking studio. I need to find a place to print. Maybe soon, maybe soon. It has been a nagging beast. So, for now, I will continue to post older printmaking work that represents my skill so far. Here are 5 more etchings from my undergraduate thesis. Some of you have seen them before and I apologize for being redundant, but at least this time you can view the prints at 2 different scales. So I suppose there is something new.