again with the collaborations

One more collaboration: This time between myself and the beautiful Laura Brandenburg.

a side note

Here are a few oil paintings from a class I am taking with Justin Henry Miller out at Saint Francis.  Yum! I was unable to finish the second and the third is an indirect painting currently in progress.  It will be layered with glazes.  Yum, again!

a freaking massacre

Hello, fellow bloggers!

The month of October has found me very busy and I apologize to those of you who check my blog everyday for keeping you so keenly waiting.  It has been nice to have at least one or two art shows a week but it has been a bit nerve-racking on top of my regular duties.  Our fair city has kept everyone on their toes the past few weeks.  Last weekend I got the chance to show off some of my new screen printing skillz a the Monster Mash-Up Blast-O-Rama.

"Medusa" a seven color hand-pulled screen print on paper

"Zombie" another seven color (i think) hand-pulled screen print on paper

"Hannibal Lecter Porn Theater" 4 hand-stenciled, hand-pulled three color screen prints mounted on wood.

And lastly here is a six color screen print collaboration I did with Mr. Eric Stine for the same show.  

Winter is coming and hibernation is about to set in.  My poor little camera has lost a couple nuts and bolts which makes blogging even more difficult.  If any of you bodies out there hear of/know of any point and shooter sales give me a heads up!

silkscreen madness

Only two screens left to lay down on my medusa print!

its finally done!! (and some other stuff)

The calendar is finally finished!  Hooray!  After weeks of burning, printing, and scoring it's done. So in love with printing but really glad I get to move on.

My new favorite tool: bone folder.

I've been sitting in on an oil painting class this semester to prep myself for starting graduate school this winter.  It is so nice to be able to go and just paint.
This was the first painting of the class, a simple black and white still life.

me oh my

Started work on my second screen printing project.  So very tasty.  A good start for a long love affair between myself and the squeegee. (2011 calendar is shown above)

I also headed back to the ol' Saint Francis today to start some preliminary painting studies with Justin Miller before I jump into the grad program this spring.  It was really great--the only thing I remember from my undergrad painting class is how to stretch a canvas.  However, I'm not really sure if we were taught much else...I don't really remember.  Being there made me feel old and fat.  Hah! All those young hip art students.

There's a lot coming up in the next few months...two collaboration shows in October, two IHE events in October, Artlink Regional is due soon, a show with Paul @ the Firefly in December, plus the holiday feeding frenzy.  At least six of my friends are either getting married or poppin' out babies by November.  Madness.

xoxo