Screenprinting Workshop
Basic Screenprinting with Stencils and Photoemulsion In the next week and a half, we will focus on basic screenprinting techniques utilizing photoemulsion and, if desired, hand cut stencils to create colorful, multi-layer images on paper. Our objectives will be to create a 2- or 3-layered print utilizing lettering and animal imagery including a key layer […]
Crochet Therapy: Clothes I’m Too Fat to Wear and Other Stories
Foot Print currently on display at Murray State University I lived for 1 year in Winterville, Georgia in a beautiful house at the end of a dead-end road with a bunch of chickens, a whole lot of quiet, and one of my favorite red-heads, Brian Hitselberger. The house is owned by my very generous cousin […]
The Poetry of Unpacking
Sleeping 8 hours a night? Cooking elaborate meals? Catching up on long-lost projects?? What?!? It’s been so long since I’ve had the time to do any of these things. But since moving to Bowling Green, I’ve been blessed/cursed with a bit of free time. Free time also equals anxiety on my part, as I’m bred […]
Flashback: Blake’s Student Work from Murray State
I have been planning on making a post about student work from last semester for quite awhile now, but I have just gotten around to editing images from the end of the term. I now have a full catalog of work to reflect upon, as well as a couple months–and a few hundred miles–distance to […]
Heat Stroke Screen Print
This is the print I made last week in Melissa Harshman‘s class, week I of Frogman’s Print & Paper Workshop. It is six color screen print on BFK Rives paper. If you’re not familiar with Frogman’s, it is a printmaking workshop in Vermillion, South Dakota hosted by the University of South Dakota. It’s a great […]
Octopus, Guns & Emeril’s, with a Touch of Lafayette
A group of friends sat around at Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshop one night and brainstormed a list of all the cliche student work subject matter we could think of. After about an hour, it did start to get personal! We decided to do a print exchange where everyone takes 2 items from the list […]
Field Guides: Drawing a Flashback
I’ve mentioned several times now that I’d like to get back to drawing more after we move and things settle down. I want to work in my sketchbook more, but I would also like to return to creating my series of Field Guides. The Field Guides are a series of handmade books I created with […]
Installing Uncharted Territories
This weekend, Blake and I installed our collaborative piece for the Uncharted Territories exhibition at the Healing Center in New Orleans. This exhibition opens this Saturday, March 9th from 6pm-9pm during the St. Claude Arts District 2nd Saturday Arts Night. We also have a reception on the Friday during the Southern Graphics Council Conference, Friday […]