Image Gallery

I've just created a new Filckr gallery of my art.  It'll be easier to view images.  You do have to sign in to see it, but its free. If anyone has another free image hosting site they like, I'd love to hear about it.

Powellapalooza... THANK YOU!

My first festival was a raging success.  Danced my feet off, saw amazing music, met beautiful people and slept on the softest sand.   So thanks to all the musicians and crazy wonderful people I met and talked to and who supported me. I just got back and now I'm going to make art.  I love you all!

Lithographs

One of my favorite mediums is lithography. You get to play with all sorts of exciting chemicals!  Unfortunately, because of this excitement, you have to have the right setting and lots rather specialized supplies.  These lithographs are from three years ago when I had access to my college print shop.

Catch-22

Stone Lithograph

This image was drawn with a grease pencil on big ole' slab of limestone.  The first lithographs were made using this technique.  A lithograph is based entirely upon the interaction between grease and water.  A certain grade of limestone provided the ideal, smooth hydrophilic(water loving) surface.  Once grease was applied to the stone it  is treated with chemicals to set it in place.  Then the slab is covered with water and a large roller with the hydrophobic(water fearing) ink is rolled atop.  The ink is greasy so it will not stick to wet areas of clean limestone and will adhere only to the areas that the grease pencil has touched.  Thus, a lithograph is an amazing way to create a re-printable drawing.

The Cloud Factory

Aluminum Lithograph with Mono-type Colorization

The black portion of this image was hand-drawn onto a transparent mylar sheet.  The mylar is laid atop a sheet of aluminum that has been treated with a photosensitive compound and then exposed to bright light.  Add a few chemicals here and there and you have a printable plate.  After the black image was printed, I placed it under a sheet of Plexiglas and proceeded to paint atop the glass like it was a coloring book. Then the black printed image was set face down on the colored glass and run through the press.  The result is a one of a kind (hence mono-type) hand-colored lithograph.

Judgement-Bot

Aluminium Lithograph

This is simple one plate aluminum lithograph. The image started as my Christmas card.

Ludi Mori

Six Plate Aluminium Lithograph

In order to achieve a reproducible colored image, a separate plate must be made for each color.   To make this, plates were needed for the red, yellow, blue, light brown, outline and background.  Each plate is made using the mylar and photosensitive aluminum technique described above.  Then each piece of paper must be run through the press six times, once for each of the plates.  Every time the paper must be aligned (registered) exactly for the image to be successful.