a little fun on the job

This sign went onto an espresso machine..

chalkboard giraffe

mixed media piece

This was a gift to a new-mom friend of mine back home (East coast).
5"x5". Collage and colored pencil on canvas. Sides are painted with acrylic.

The photos aren't that great, but good enough:

oh hey

another found wood painting. this piece was scavenged a few years ago (with permission) from the Golden Gate Bridge wood shop. the background color is the actual "International Orange" paint used on the Bridge.

the line on the left is an indentation in the wood.

baby warthog/boar

pastel on chalk board

secretary bird commission piece

This painting is officially finished. Acrylic on found wood (20"x35"). 

body detail

face detail

squid prints

I did these back in April, when I volunteered at the SFCB Earth Day open house. Didn't get around to posting about it due to computer issues.. so here they are.

These prints were made from a humboldt squid that was donated by the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. This is a smaller squid; the mantle is about 16" long (they can grow to almost 6 feet in mantle length!). Water based block printing ink was applied to the skin of the squid, and then the paper was laid over the top and smoothed down.

with labels on butcher paper

on some lovely rice paper

secretary bird pastel

I am working on a commission based on this guy. Photos in a week or so; it's in acrylic on found wood.

finished!

yay!

wall texture

angle picture

dragon mural update

The client decided on the top sketch, and painting started on the 24th of April. It has progressed much faster than I thought it would. There are only a couple more hours of work left in him.

sketch

progression

most recent photo (unfinished)

a black bird

Grackle, blackbird, crow, starling. I used grackles as references but for those who aren't so familiar with birds, he could be any of the many black ones that are always poking around. Acrylic, 11"x14".

Like the barn owl in my previous post, he is on found wood. There are several more in the works, as well as some woodcuts.


FOR SALE. email for additional photos/information: albinosquid@gmail(dotcom)

barn owl

Last but not least, I made a painting last night. Acrylic on found wood.

barn owl

progress photos. forgive the crappy photoshop mash-up

FOR SALE. email for additional photos/information: albinosquid@gmail(dotcom)

another letterpress class

This was a full day class incorporating text, block, and multiple color registration on the Vandercook press. 

The print is collaborative, with each student carving their own blocks under instruction. Mine is the center block.

the first color. it's a blend roll

blocks inked up with the second color

there were 4 paper colors

discussing and trouble-shooting registration issues

the last one got printed upside-down. kind of neat effect.
not shown: print on  pumpkin colored paper

without the blend roll

my block.
i was naughty and didn't clean it off, but i'm not going to be printing it again, and it looks so nice with the blue

quiet, but not idle

Updates here and at my flea market blog have been few and far between but I've been keeping busy.

First order of business: garden mural commission. The client saw this pastel drawing and contacted me.

Waiting to hear yea or nay on these sketches:

oh, decisions

I needed some business cards for this past Tuesday but my supreme indecisiveness resulted in running out of time to order any. So I made some. The "edition" of 24 came out so-so (in my opinion).

This may become a thing.

oldies but goodies

These lithographs were made in 2006. Both were small editions of 7 plus one Artist Proof of each.
They are for sale in my Etsy shop.

hedgehog pastel

small things, finished

unfinished photo here. For sale in my Etsy shop.

monochromatic alphabet

My entry for the 2012 Sketchbook Project. Finally, finished and mailed off. Whew!


HUGE thanks to my buddy Erin Ellis for scanning all of the artwork and saving me literally hours of color-correcting that would have been necessary had I used a camera in my low-light apartment to capture the images.

the cover... in monochromatic fabric

i also used the stamps i found at the flea: link to stamps

did you know that zebu come in a miniature version?

the end

i used the lowercase in the back

my barcode