Bootleg Screening...

Lately I have been feeling really crafty, so I decided to make some fairly really simple screen prints- on top of all the other stuff I've been doing!

I miss printing, and never really had a chance to learn how to make a silk screen, so I decided a ghetto screen would work.

By using a needle-point frame, you can stretch some extra stockings over the frame to create a screen!

Start off with a simple design

Trace it onto the stocking

Then with Modge-Podge paint over the area
 you do not want the paint/ink to come through
and let it dry

Press the color throught the screen with an old
credit card, cardboard or squeegy

and....tada!!! You have a screen printed design!!

This is the easiest way to design your own cards and have fun mass producing them, lol!

-blessed-

I was fortunate a couple weeks ago to receive a text message from my old high school teacher about a commission for a fellow alumni.

Her and her husband are expecting a baby this August and wanted a "fairy tale" tree painted in the nursery. Below is the cute couple- and the sketch they have chosen for the room!

El Paso, Texas

I was asked by my Aunt and Uncle from El Paso to create a sunset design for a T-shirt. They own a printing company over there and I suppose it's for a neighborhood event or something.

This is what I have so far:

Pancakes & Booze

     Last Friday I had a really great opportunity to be part of a traveling show. Pancakes and Booze was established May 2009 an is a traveling show that was created by Tom Kirlin from Los Angeles. Since 2009 local artists from over 10 cities have been able to participate, show and sell (i.e. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Portland, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta....). 

What started out as a show in a warehouse became and annual round up of talent, pancakes and BOOZE! Thanks Tom for letting me be apart of this show!

Hot-n-Sweaty

I had two of my works exhibited at the 500X Gallery in Dallas, Texas back in June. Of course I forgot to take pictures of the event! BUT! Here was the flyer!

-studio 1110-

New Supplies!

Since mid-March this year, I have had space in downtown which I've been calling my studio; I need to go in re-arrange the entire space and definitely work harder at creating and showing. I have been in a couple of shows, and will upload info about them soon!

Travel Seaside

     This last May I've taken a trip to Seattle; to relax to get away from work and to TRAVEL. I love to travel, and have taken it upon myself to see the world as little or as much as I can afford... Which isn't often. So here are some photos of my adventure.

Pikes Place Market: 1st Day

Shy Giant Ice Cream: Pikes Place

Space Needle: 7am Jog

Cruise photo, Museum of Science, Underground Tour 2012

Jimi Hendrix Memorial

Downtown Seattle

Downtown Seattle at Night

I didn't want to leave- the weather was so gorgeous! But, I was ready to get back to my studio and refresh what I had left off doing since I left school.

-prayer flag-

I've been invited to join an adult print group here in Dallas by my old high school printmaking teacher Eva Kutscheid!

First assignment for myself; a prayer flag. I've never had the honor of participating in this activity- but I understood that they are meant to send a positive message into the world! And my message was one about grace.

"be pretty if you can, witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you"

I heard this once- and in the end we are all just flesh and bones.... The central image is my skull stylized and based off of one of my X-rays. The text "Danos Gracia" is Spanish for "give us grace," which is essential in order for us to remain humble and thankful for what we have.

STEPS:
After my image was drawn I went over it with sharpie. I used a wash of color to help differentiate highlighted and darkened areas. I began to carve- once carved I inked my woodcut, test printed and the last image is the result!