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.