Prints for Peace

This is the newly completed print for the Prints for Peace exhibition in Mexico. It is a resingrave engraving, and it is kind of hard to tell but stitched over top of it is a mylar dove.

My other obsession

Oregon Ink Spot Print Exchange

Print Exchange 5

These are the prints I recieved back from the Print Exchange 5. An exchange I thought I had gotten screwed on, as the prints were submitted last summer some time, and the awaited prints did not arrive until last week (the person in charge of it had met with catastrophic trouble and ran into problems getting things sent out). Oh well good things come to those who wait. My apologies if I got anyone's name wrong.

Oregon Ink Spot Print

This is my print for the Oregon Ink Spot Exchange. Hopefully they will get there in time. This is an engraving on resingrave printed with Van Son rubber based ink, and printed on Unryu paper with chine cole. Yes it is a very wrinkled print. I think it has to do with getting a charge or thrill out of fighting in impossible circumstances.

Got a Gig

My supervisor threw some work my way- top secret work involving the Free Mason's Yearbook. Neither I nor he know all the details yet, but little bit by little bit I am getting more complicated things to draw. Mums the word. I'm also working on a drawing for a blind parapalegic (sp?).

Potato Prints

Way back in the day, when people had to live according to their means, children did not experience printmaking via lino cuts, oh no they just gave them a potato to carve and print. Given my own lack of monetary funds I have decided to give potato printing a shot.

This is my first try at it. It is a process that really doesn't require much at all.

The move back from PA, Goodbye Marywood

This was quite awhile ago the weekend of Dec. 15th, but I thought I would post it anyway. We thought we were making good time, and might beat the storm that was supposed to hit PA on Sunday. We were only about one third of the way through the Poconos when the snow started. It was a pleasant snow at first, but we soon felt its full force. Road flares glowed along the side of the highway, and the wreckage of split and twisted semi truck was only one of its victims. We thought that there had to be an end to this storm, so we kept on. It was still snowing in Ohio, but the road crews were very good there, and the roads were in very good shape. We didn't realize that the worst stretch of the road was still before us. Indiana. The lake effect snow was by far the worst we encountered on the road. The snowy conditions however was only exasperated by the ineffectual Indiana plows. We saw the plows on the road, but most of them did not even have their blades down. We kept on through to Chicago, where the difference was drastic, not only was the snow lighter, but the Chicago plows were actually doing their job, and doing their job very well. That's not to say that it still was not dangerous. A car a few lanes over from us lost control, and started spinning, fortunately there was nobody really close by so they didn't hit anybody. I found the picture online, and it pretty much conveys what it was like.