Prints! (about time)

"Dont Look"
This is a piece I worked on during the summer.   Most of my work deals with problems or challenges I work through.  This is one of many and is filled with different images that I was dealing with at the time.  This is the first large plate that I have worked with using mezzotint and drypoint.  I worked from dark to light- 2011

This is a brain spill.  I took a day and decided to let everything out on my mind all at once and this came out as an explosion of different images. This is a combined drypoint and mezzotint - 2011

This is dealing with certain human emotions and behaviors being taken over by another emotion that  not so  desirable.
An example would be trust being taken over by jealousy.  A mezzotint and drypoint-2011

"Now Do You See?"
One of my first mezzotints.  I had done something that resulted in someone very important in my life walking away.  It was a moment where I had to really look at myself and see what I was really doing,  Unfortunately it shows that moments like that are the only thing to force us to change.  Drypoint and mezzotint- 2011

"Unemployed"
I was experimenting with mezzotint and aquatint.  This was the last time I used acid. I had aquatinted the entire plate but and scraped away everything but the garbage can. I went back in and added mezzotint where I wanted it and drypoint.  It was interesting how they worked together.  This is sorta a funny print.  In la crosse we have a ton of squirrels and they eat our garbage popping out of garbage cans.  I decided that it would be an interesting thought if all the garbage cans in the city were padlocked what the squirrels would do.  - 2011

"Waiting"
This was me counting the days of someone not being around.  Leave that one at that.  - 2010

"Release"
This was my first print after my baby series! This was  when I realized how much I could use print to work through things and expose human experiences.  In this case I guess to put it 'lightly' betrayal and how we sit here and think about all of this as time passes.  These odd line guys that I have in the print is continued through most of my prints.  They are these things that I associate and connect with as being bad not evil but in that way sorta.  They are there and hang there and just represent that crap that we have around. - 2009 

Some New Stuff

My ladies....

These were based on figure drawings I had done.  I then broke the drawings down into pieces and constructed them out of clay using all thrown pieces.  I transferred the drawings on their backs like a tattoo.

These are transfers from one of my prints.

Summer

I have an obsession with mugs. I started to experiment with transferring on ceramics and with the help of a few have stumbled upon a lithographic transfer technique that has allowed me to tranfer drawings and my prints on the side of a ceramic piece. I have still been experimenting with different colors and which colors can withstand which firings. So far the best firing for these transfers is the salt firing, good thing because that is by far my favorite firing.

Just a better picture then before

Sad Day

left - RIP Billy, he has sadly not made it to the kiln ... Saved the head though

right -The start of my drypoint and mezzotint obsession. This is the first print which I made of my monster Billy in drypoint and mezzotint. I love this process! The print was done before the sculpture of Billy

Greg and Bertha

Finally made a home. ( Bertha is the bottom frog ) The piece was finally salt fired and with a little bit of fixing up I am very happy with the end result.

Its Time

Thought that I finally need to update this thing. Because of my ceramic work molding with my printmaking I thought that I should just make one blog with them both because they are such a great influence on each other.

"Untitled"

This was made during my first semester for my coil project in fall 2008. They are salt fired using a blue, black, and some yellow glaze.

"Steve"

This was part of our gargoyle project in fall 2008. High fired with a stain and later rubbed on with green paint for an older look.

"Care For a Dip?"
This is my bird bath from my second semester of ceramics in spring 2009. I have already salt fired it so hopefully I will have a recent picture of it soon.

"untitled"

We tried out a sagar fire and these were the 3 tiles I put in raw. These were done in fall 2009.