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.

My First Series

This print was done using aquatint and line etch. Later I went back in with watercolor to bring in a different meaning to the print. This is one of the prints from my just and unjust series which are still untitled. The series reflect what myself or others close to me have been going through because of others not accepting their differences. In this particular print I have flipped what is the taboo of our society making the heterosexual couple the taboo and the homosexual couple the ideal couple of our society. Trying to make people feel what others like those close to me may feel.

The second print in my unjust series was mainly using a aquatint and some dry point. I went back in and used watercolor to bring a focus to the figure. This is something that I have been dealing with firsthand. A classroom with a professor of different ethnicity and differences. Many have had this in their classrooms however I have seen the disrespect that has been shown towards these professors and feel that it is not right.