Hanzo the Razor

Hanzo the Razor (1972 - 1974)
An awesome trilogy of samurai flicks about a cop with a big dick and a penchant for sexually interrogating women. In this scene, Hanzo is telling off his boss.  I used charcoal, compressed charcoal/graphite (I don't know which) and conte. This was super easy and was finished really quickly.

Child of Rage

Child of Rage: a Story of Abuse (1990)
This is one of my favorite documentaries because the little girl talks about wanting to kill her foster family with knives, torturing her brother, masturbating, hurting pets and killing baby birds. I used charcoal, conte and colored pencils.

C10D4M12SP3SU5

Since I'm doing abstract paintings and photoshop layers, why not combine 1 of each? The name is to keep track of what went into the final image: Cut paper 10, Decalcomania 4, Marbleizing 12, Spray 3 and Suminagashi 5.

Marbleizing 8&9

When I marbleized spray paint this winter, I tried photoshop layers on that, but it didn't work as well as with decalcomania. This is the best one that I made from that series.

Decalcomania Layers 1&2

I was doing decalcomania with tempera on plastic for a while in the summer of abstraction and spray. Layering my first 2 decalcomanias in photoshop turned out pretty nice.

Psychedelic Collage 1

This is what happens when I play with color curves on image editing software. The original (left) has a pencil and pen background with parts of the tempera print from my video collaged on. I then scanned it and started changing color settings.

Bottle Blast

During my summer of abstraction and sprays, I decided that a larger piece was called for. This is exactly the size and shape of my coffee table that I was working on. All in spray paint, paint in spray bottles, cut paper and just a little bit of sharpie. The blobular mass coming out of the left spray bottle is from a video that I made by pouring tempera paint on plexiglass. It would have been a shame to waste the psychedelic design, so I made my first print without knowing.

Grasshopper

The final assignment for drawing class was an insect. I selected a grasshopper because it provided just enough interest to be worth drawing, but would not require illustrating individual hairs. The grasshopper itself is mostly watercolor with some charcoal and conte. The background is charcoal, pencil, conte and sharpie.

Street - Winter, College

One day, I got out of class early and had to wait for the computer lab to open. I had also forgotten my sketchbook. OH NO! After stopping by the print shop to get brown paper, I went to a high window in a stairwell to draw whatever I saw there. This is in charcoal and conte. The first is my source drawing and the second is edited for color and contrast.

Copper Plate Engraving

This was the last assignment in printmaking class. I made my engraving and printed it on good paper, but liked the paper towel much more. I even wasted a whole class painting it with watercolors.

Linocuts

This was the first assignment for printmaking class: linoleum stamps of an insect, animal, plant, mineral, and vegetable. I added technology because I could. So bat, spider, dinosaur bones, venus flytrap, derailleur, Carolina Reaper hot pepper. This is printed on paper towel and color corrected to green.

Is This College?

This was made when I switched schools in 2016. The previous school had seemed more cohesive, together and had a more varied cast of characters. The new one was all separate buildings populated by a homogeneous group of students who I could not relate to. The background sky is watercolor. I used a more modern phone to photograph the buildings and collage them together. Other students are clipped from brochures advertising this school. I photographed myself and traced most of the outlines to begin my drawing in pencil, sharpie and colored pencil.

Industrial Parking Lot

A band that I played in was practicing in an industrial building and our drummer was always late, so I would take primitive photos with my slider phone while I waited. This was one of the better photos that I turned into a drawing. The buildings and foliage are colored pencil. The parking lot itself is duct tape with ink on top and the puddles are watercolor.

Bookbinding

I learned bookbinding in printmaking class as well. The top set are little dollar store notebooks that I glued together and made covers with clasps for. The bottom set I cut the paper and sewed the binding as well.

Mike

I visited a friend from the school that I went to after high school during a recent summer. His girlfriend took this photo of us. 30x40 yellow construction paper from a roll. I penciled the outlines, used watercolor to start, switched to my acrylic/tempera blend and finished with oil pastels. The whole deal got gloss clear spray paint to seal it all in.

Suminagashi

My printmaking professor told me about this and I just had to do it. The idea is to float ink on water and print off the surface.