I am sad to announce that I moving my studio out of Golden Belt in Durham at the end of September. I love the space and the community but since the birth of my son Ryland it has been difficult to get here as much as I need to. Most of my recent work has been done at home (in the middle of the night). At any rate, as I transition to the new home studio I am having a studio cleaning sale 9/20 and 9/21.…
I made some new prints this week, just in time for the holiday season. If you need a special and unique gift for a special and unique person please consider supporting an independent artist by purchasing one on my available prints page. The prints are ready to go and will start shipping on Monday, November 26. These prints are an extremely limited edition of 14 variations. There are 5 pairs of prints in the same color combination and 4 with unique color variations. …
There are two sets of prints here. This first set was printed on 4/15/12. The full array is up on the Prints page. This first group uses 3 shades of turquoise, in different color iterations:
To get all of the variations I printed each screen twice in each color, then switched colors and repeated on the dry prints for each of the remaining screens. I started printing the lightest shade, adding more turquoise for each layer. Phthalo turquoise is one of my favorite colors. …
So I finally updated the Available Prints page with all of the recent work. These prints are now available for sale via my paypal checkout. The buy now button is located at the bottom of the page for each print. I set the price at $60 + $5 shipping for each of them. Many of these prints are one of a kind variations. A few are in small run multiples of a color combination but each is unique, for reasons explained here. …
This set is building off of the negative space prints I did for “This& That” but in the larger format. Those prints were 11″x14″ and these are all closer to 18″x24″. Here is a set of three in orange and green with slightly different registrations:
So far in my print experiments this year, the 2 and 3 color iterations have been the strongest. For this set I used 3 screens, two negative space iterations and one line. The two negative space screens happen to fit together really well in this set and I was able to get a lot of great variations. …
Hand printing is by nature an imperfect process. Some of the prints come out perfect, others less so. Since I have been out of practice and working in improvised facilities a lot of my prints have come out less than perfect. I’ve been keeping these and experimenting with different ways of using them. One of the first ideas I had was to hand color them with acrylic washes. Here are a couple of the initial attempts:
Most of these prints were from the last print of that color. …
My recent multi-linear paintings have all overlaid intersecting lines to create specific figures. These have all been specific choices and also immediately whole; meaning that I draw the figure all at once and specifically choose which lines overlay when painting. The recent series of prints have involved multiple separate whole figures overlaid to mimic the multi-linear effect of the paintings.
I say these are immediately whole because the drawings are done all at once in one continuous motion, and the overlay is chosen after, when I am painting.…
I am continuing to experiment with screen printing. Now that I have the process down I am free to make more directed experiments with colors and overlays. I have found that 2 and 3 color variations work best. 4 and 5 colors seems to be too much for my current figures. Here are some of my more successful two-color variations:
Three colors:
The green went down first, then the brown finally the translucent red. Because the purple is so dark there is only an overlay effect from the red. …
So after the great reception I got for the Number 24 Prints in November, I resolved to make more prints in the new year. Specifically new prints, not just reprints of my older work, although I probably will do a few of those too. I originally had this plan to do crazy complex designs from a very complicated drawing, but the drawing fluid does not handle like paint and I found that the results were not optimal. So I chose to paint new designs directly onto the screens and experiment with overlays, similar to my recent multi-linear paintings. …
Silkscreen Printing is a technique I learned back in 1994 at Saint Paul Central High School. I was entering 10th grade when my family moved from southwestern Minnesota to St. Paul that year. The graduation requirements at Central (which we students referred to as CenTRO) were different from those at the school I came from. This difference eventually allowed me to graduate early, but more on that later. I had already taken “Art” and could not take it again for some reason when I was enrolling. …