Zombie Postcards

                                    

So I made 32 of these as a set of postcards to send out to publishers or art directors. I've got a list I've been compiling and after I find out how I want to package them envelope-wise (I'm thinking a black sleek paper of some sort, hand made envelopes) I'm going to send them out and see what happens. The top image is the final print, the bottom left is how it was designed on the computer, the middle is an example of a few prints I made on rough brown sketch paper (which I kind of like more in some ways) and then the last is the back of the card. Measures approximately 8"x4 1/2".

Twin Peaks

My first screen print ever. 4 layers, 11x14, edition of 12. 

Lithographs

This was my final, a 2 layer lithograph in black and red, half sheet size. I used nib with tushe on ball grain plate, and while some of this worked out really really well, some clearly did not. I still like the image a lot. I ended up trading one print with another student, and also getting this included in an apocalypse themed zine.

This was my second lithograph, done with pen nib and tusche as well as a no.5 crayon on stone. At first I thought this came out too dark, but the more I look at it the more I admire the dark grey of the skin and how leathery it came out. 

Womb/Grave

A couple of intaglio plates. I made these for a junior illustration project, and edited them to work more toward my concept, but now that I look at them in their original condition I like them more this way. Simple. 

Southwestern

This is my first lithograph, grained, drawn, and printed in about 2 weeks time. I pulled about 15 good prints of this, 6 on Somerset Newsprint and 9 on Somerset White. The assignment was to make only an edition of 5, but lithography printing goes so quickly, it's hard to make only a small edition when it's just as easy to make a ton more.

I'm really excited to do more stone lithography, it is a really intriguing and fun printing process. I feel when I'm working that I'm imitating the same actions as say Honore Daumier, and that is a very unique experience.

I really hope once I'm out of school I can get the same level of critique, because talking about these pieces often reveals more to me than I originally set out to express. For instance.. now, I am quite sure this piece is a subtle representation of my love/hate relationship with Texas... and I'm always intrigued when these things come to the surface later.