Intaglio & Chine Colle'

Last week I had created this intaglio print from a plastic plate. It is 11.75"x 15.75" -- I then decided that I wanted to make it into a chine colle' intaglio print.- Here are two examples. 

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Work in Progress: Woodblock

A test print from the woodblock that I was carving out of a lil over a week ago.  I've been juggling a few different types of work all at the same time. It allows me time to think abotu what I should do or cut... so I wanted to do a lil state proof to check out how it was coming along...   -- The first one is fully inked and the second is a ghost print from the left over ink.  So I need to think about how to cut the rest to give it a lil more fine detail... 

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More Pinhole Camera Photos: Beach

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Dreaming of Art Processes

The other morning I woke up dreaming about an art process to try out! It isn't the first time - and I just always find it funny or odd to think about how most people just dream about some person chasing them or old friends or whatever... But that often I dream about how I might try this or that with some new process I have never thought about.... How I might mix up two different ideas or use this and that with photoshop in order to get a look I want... Or that I want IN MY DREAM - hahaha. I just always find it so funny! Sometimes I wake up and I think that the dream had a great idea... other times the dream has a great idea but... ??? there was some impossible aspect to it.... Like maybe I need to be in zero gravity to create this or that kinda pattern and then hit it with a blue laser - hahaha you know? But then there are times that some part of the process and dream really gives me insight to some new idea to try...   ... I just love to wake up knowing that I had been creating in my sleep - and while others are dreaming about other things I get to create some of the impossible creations... even if it is only seen in my dreams. 

New Screen Prints

I have been working on a few new screen prints from some models I worked with a while back - taking some of my old photography and reworking it into new forms of art. I am hoping to find a way to incorporate this into some of my future work. 

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Work in Progress: Stencil / Woodblock

Been working on a few spray paint stencil pieces -- This is some of the work in progress... I want to mix on layers of paint and maybe do something else to it like collage? I will just have to see where it leads as it progresses. I also started a woodblock print, but then was not sure how I want to make the thin lines/ If I will make it a reduction print? - So I have put it off to give it some more thought.

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LOVE THIS! - Shows you got to PLAY till the VERY END!

2 pieces to be in Exhibition

I just found out today that 2 of my pieces were selected to be in the upcoming exhibition at the Mt. San Antonio Art Gallery! One is a photograph and the other is a linoleum print of my grandpa that I recently created.

The exhibition will have a reception on May 13th from 4-6 PM. The Exhibition will run from May 13 - June 3, 2010. It is free! check website for hours and other details: http://artgallery.mtsac.edu

Pinhole Camera Shot

Did a lil Pinhole Camera shooting this morning... It was just such a beautiful day! 

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Thinking about Artwork

I have been sitting here planning out a few of the new prints that I want to see about working on -- I have a list of all materials that I have ready to work on, plus the sizes -- So it is just a matter of figuring out what I want to do and on what type - wood, plastic, zinc, rubber or what? 

But that seems to be the hard part - because I want to make something amazing. =) Something layered, mixed media, that has a certain look and feel, but is interesting to me to create... but I can't seem to think about how to combine the different processes -and make it work the way I would like... On one side I was thinking that it is really a GOOD thing that I never really feel satisfied... It kinda makes me know that I have a bunch more to create - more to figure out and discover.... to learn to express.... 

On the OTHER side it is really frustrating... like trying to talk but then loosing your voice... then trying to force out the words... Since what is harder then that is the feeling of having a short time to create all I want to make .... And I am not sure which would be better to have this passion that makes me feel the pressure of the drive due to not feeling like a piece will be satisfying enough... or to have the satisfaction in my work that would make me feel completed when I finish a piece??? .... but might leave me without any motivation or need to keep doing more... 

2cd Pinhole Camera Shoot

I made a new pinhole - and was trying to make sharper images - I don't think that it worked any better but I do like the shots that I got from the shoot! They have a soft painted feel to them - I love how they came out! 

You know I was thinking about how most people would remember pinhole cameras from the doing them with old oatmeal boxes.... and it hit me... the oatmeal comes in a canister not a "box" - And I just thought it was funny that we call them oatmeal boxes. =)

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Etching from plastic plate

I etched and printed this yesterday - it is based off one of my designs from a previous photo that I created in the wet lab - using alternative processing. This etching reminds me of a dream that your waking out of in that peaceful bliss of rest - the returning. 

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Made a Digital Pin Hole Camera

I was looking to make a pin hole camera and decided that the most useful one for me would be a digital pin hole - Since I could continually use it and not have to deal with finding / getting a chance to get into a wet lab....  

For those that don't know... a pin hole camera doesn't use a LENS! =)  Which makes shooting feel SOOO ODD! - Even more so since you are kinda just GUESSING what will be in the shots - since you can't see thru the view finder. The pin hole is very tiny -- the smaller the hole the sharper the image will be - pin hole shots have a slight blur to them- but are an Artistic Alternative to regular shooting. Here are some of the shots I took - first pin hole shots I have ever tried. Tomorrow I plan on trying to make the hole smaller - see how they come out and what difference if any they make.

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Printing Human Cells

This might be the new art of the future! 

- Just amazing what we can come up with... Seems very SCI-FI and an amazing medical tool!! .... But totally makes me wonder how we might use other materials in the same way to create other art forms...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100408/sc_nm/us_wounds_printer