5/28/10

To be perfectly honest, I did not make this today, as I was working all day and was at the Spring Show last night.  However, this page was created via silkscreen in 5 runs and is part of my semester-long book arts project.  It was juried into the Spring Show for Book Arts, so yay!

PS - Yes, I did reference actual pig penises for the boar dick part.

5/13/10

Crap, forgot to post this earlier today.  Anyway, quick speed pain based on one of Eve's thumbnails from long ago.  Thanks E! 

Also, in other related and good news, I found out today that I got into the Fine Art Spring Show for Book Arts!  The silkscreen project that I worked on all last semester (15 weeks!) turned out to be a book, and it's in the show!  I'm super grateful and super stoked about this one, especially since I got tons of help along the way from my instructor, my classmates, and Eve. 

Anyway, so make sure to check out the Fine Art, Illustration, and Animation sections of the Spring Show to see our stuff!  Opening night is on Thursday, May 27th from 7-9pm in 180 and 79 New Montgomery!  Hope to see you there!

5/11/10

And this guys says "Congrats on getting into the Spring Show, Monkey + Seal!"  Score.

New prints are up/congrats Eve!

Above are the thumbnails for the piece below, titled "Bullies." Tons of crappy compositional studies, then some character development to get the right look. There's 2 more pages of character studies, but they are even more lame than these, so I'll spare you. Anyway, the finish is a 27-run (even though you can't tell) Edition Varie' of 5. I think I ended up only spending ~45 hours on this one.

Finish: "Bullies" 30" x 19.5" 27-color serigraph on Rives BFK.



This lovely 1-color print, inspired by the old-skool Dave Chappelle Rick James skit (I can't believe that was like 3+ years ago!) . Anyway, fornicate your couch with this print and buy it today!
Here's a 3-color serigraph, cleverly titled as "Squid." I'm still not sure if I like doing one giant print with a massive number of runs, or many smaller prints with fewer colors. I guess I have to sort that out before I start silkscreen 2 next semester. Anyway, the squid is on sale here.

So Eve's parents were up over the weekend, and we played some Settler of Catan, cooked, and checked out Eve's illustration and puppet which made it into the Spring Show. Her puppet won an Honorable Mention (which is sort of interesting, as there was a 1st place for puppets, but no 2nd or 3rd place to be found...) . Anyway, it was nice to see the future in-laws again and congrats to everyone who got something into the show!
Eve's stopmotion puppet (it can move!), about 1'x4'. Note the fancy ribbon in front! Woot!

New print, no show for me

So this little cuties is available on my site's store here (aka www.monkeyandseal.com) for a whopping $13. Not too bad for a 3-color serigraph on cardstock.

Two new prints will be hitting the store soon, a 3-color squid, and a 1-color "fornicate your couch" homage to Dave Chappelle.

In other, more lame-ass news, I didn't get into the Spring Show, period. It does make me feel a little bit better that the rumor is that since they're so limited on space, they were really biased against large pieces (while most of the pieces that might have gotten in were pretty large). Even so, I just have to keep on doing what I'm doing, and even though I won't be in the Spring Show, such is the life of an artist.

On the other hand, Eve did get accepted into the Spring Show for Illustration! She submitted 4 pieces, and we're not sure how many will get hung, but even though I'm bummed about my own situation, I'm super excited that her stuff will be in the show! Woot!

Anyhoo, even though I have class tomorrow and Friday, I don't have any finals due (I finished them early to submit to the show). Well, even though I didn't make it, at least now I'm pretty much done with the semester. So now I'm taking a nice break and playing some Settler of Catan online. My handle is Little Yeti, so if you see me, join up on a game!