Beast of Friends

So, My boyfriend got me a screen-printing press for Christmas. He is amazing! It's a 4-color press that came with 4 screens. It's gorgeous. After I got home after New Years, I got a little kid's desk from IKEA and bolted the press onto it. It's a great set-up. I've slowly gotten my process inks and my emulsion and screen cleaner, and I'm in business!

I've been a little slow to get into working on everything, but I've finally got some screen prints together. I think they look pretty good.
These prints are going to be part of the "Great Arthouse Print Exchange" later on this summer. Let me know what you think!

The biggest downside (other than the time it takes to set up and clean up everything) is that my Fat Cat really likes to sit on the Platen. He thinks it's his little perch. He even tried to get on the thing when I was printing! It was annoying, but cute because it turned his little feet blue. Dummy.

OLD Artwork pt. 3

I'm trying to keep these blog posts managable in the off chance that someone out there reading them is on a slow connection... It also makes me feel more productive to have many posts with a few drawings on each one. These ones are more character based than some of the other "Old" drawings posted.

I've always had a fondness for sock puppets, paper dolls, fish, deer, and dogs. I combined all of those together in this drawing. It's a fun little doodle with a lot of character. I think that I need to expand on this drawing

"Explorer" is a pen and ink drawing of a scuba man in a strange world. This is mostly a sketch, I think it has good potential to be a nice bigger piece.

What do you call an owl made out of punctuation? A "punctuowl" This drawing was made after a tutoring session at 826 Michigan in 2008... the kids were learning punctuation and sentence formation, and I just couldn't keep from drawing this.

OLD Artwork pt. 2

I've dug up more old artwork for your enjoyment. These ones are all black and white, pen and ink drawings.


This piece is one of my takes on a "world map." It was originally an assignment for school that I took into completion. I really like this piece. I think that if I lived a few hundred years ago, I would have enjoyed being a cartographer. Maps fascinate me.

"Balloon Man" is one of my favorite drawings. I'm not sure, but I think it might have been inspired by the "Candy Man Song" in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory... but maybe when he is older...and possibly diabetic, which would be why he gives out balloons instead of candy.

This drawing originally was called "Horse", but I am not sure what to call it now. Either way, this piece formerly known as "Horse" is one of my first attempts at using some "Rapidograph"pens that my friend Kate gave me. The pens are generally lovely, until the ink gets stuck, or won't stop flowing.

This Panda drawing was my first attempt at making a full piece of work in etchboard. I think it turned out pretty well, although it is a little crunched because I read the instructions wrong for the project. Working on this reminded me of the "Magicolor" scratching paper I used as a kid.

This drawing was a fun attempt to convey color with just black and white, with no wash. I might re-touch this one to make the tones and values a little clearer, but I really like the image itself. There's so much to see!

OLD Artwork pt. 1

I thought it might be a fun idea to unearth some of my old artwork. The next couple pieces are some artwork that I made a couple of years ago.

This painting was for my mom. I really like teeth, and she is a dental hygienist-maybe that's why. This was done in acrylic on canvas board.

These monsters are all drawn in crayons on brown paper.

This one was drawn by hand and colored using the computer. It features some cool animals.