I graduated with my MFA! It’s good to be finished. Now I get to spend the next six months to a year to adjust and manage an art life outside of school. Whoohoo?

The art page is updated with the Thesis work. It’s going to be awhile before new work will be seen. I have no studio or printshop access. Have a good summer everybody!

Work is up!  The installation was kind of stressful and things kept falling on me, but it’s up! I’m on a different wall now with more prints showing. Now I just need to hammer out that artist statement…

I had another committee meeting that went well. The work is coming along and now I just need to wrap prints up in the next few weeks then name and frame!

Keep in mind that these are mostly still works in progress. They’re probably change again before the show. Also they’re not photographed as well as I like, my fault though.

This one above is being traded for an etching by Graham Judd. Whoohoo.

This one is really blurry and I’m pretty sure the colors are still wrong. Actually, it looks down right awful in comparison to the real deal. Most of the ink I’m using has metallic sheen to it, so photographing and adjusting later has been a pain.

This one has an “Alice in Wonderland” fall down the tunnel feel.  Kind of trippy. Wolfdogghost is technically in there, but the layers obliterated him to be super transparent.

This one I mistakenly printed over a flipped version of the same figures and created a mirror of four figures. At first I thought it would be a throw away print, but I managed some recovery out of it.

I have more to show, but I’ll spread it out through the week. There’s not going to be much posts for this month since I got to prepare for the show and graduation. Work work work.

Okay, this makes me feel a little better. I’m finished (maybe) with another character for the prints. I’m calling it wolfdogghost. It’s like the wolf from Red Riding Hood or Three Little Pigs, but a more pathetic version. It kind of reminds me of my dog a little, only she gets pity because she’s beastly fat.

I’m seeing some similarities.

“Two Sisters”

Not an official title, but maybe.

I’m definitely not using this image, but I do get entertained by how it looks like  a wrestler and an insect combine.

I don’t have concrete plans on my next few prints. This week I’m going to fix the ones that were shown and work on finalizing the thesis paper.  I messed with the scans on photoshop, but I’m not sure if anything fruitful will come out of the process. It’s certainly fun, but I’m not sure how fitting it is for the series. I might just have to go back and do some reading for fresh ideas to draw upon. It might just be a writing week with some studio visits for extra feedback.

This print is the most resolved out of the batch. I don’t plan on changing too much with it.

This one is got some splotches I need to fix, but otherwise near completion.

This photo is still a little off, I can’t seem to get it to look right.There’s a lot of shimmer in the ink that’s hard to capture.

I need to have something opaque to overlay on this print. There’s a lot of transparent layers that are making it hard to focus.

Prints that were in my portfolio, barely started. I’m going to try more restraint with printing on these prints. I don’t want to overwork them.

The first committee meeting went well. The general vibe was to keep working and let the intuitive process flow. The prints shown are by no means finished. Some are more complete than others. Others look complete, but are far from done. I could go into more detail what needs to get fix, but I’ll spare the chatter. The prints are poster size and the process has been quick and rewarding. I’ve been having fun for the first time in a long while. It’s nice to remember what it’s like to be energized with art making and investigating content.

I’m silkscreening this semester and creating monoprints (wiki link for my folks) . Some of the prints have a painterly and tactile quality. There were seven prints presented, four I kept in my portfolio since they weren’t nearly as completed, and four prints at the studio that I just started. This was all done in two weeks. If I keep this up, I could feasibly have a decent thesis show on my hands!