Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

...and miles to go before i sleep

2007-03-11T20:36:00.000-07:00

bywaters and backalleys

2007-01-22T09:49:00.000-08:00

for all you honkies who missed the show

2007-01-02T18:29:00.000-08:00

Jesus done left Chicago.

2006-11-08T17:28:00.000-08:00

some pictures from the windy city.

The view from our hotel window on S. Michigan. Notice the ghosty looking thing behind the Sears Tower.

Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor at Millenium Park. Baffling!

Cloud Gate at Night. Way cool and completely different looking.

This poor kid jumped about 200 times while his mother tried to take a picture.

I thought only idiot celebrities bought segways. I was wrong.

In the Art Institute, part of the Silk Road exhibit. This guy was painting something, obviously.

I don't know who these are by, but we thought they were hilarious.

Inside an old auditorium building on S. Michigan. Converted into apartments for artists and a tiny cafe.

This is just outside Milwaukee, taken on the way back.

...ain't so free

2006-10-13T21:11:00.000-07:00

what i've been doing this semester, minus a few other versions that seem to have been stolen by the apartment ghost. chronological. more to come. yay.

eh...

2006-10-13T21:06:00.000-07:00

My multiplate image. Not so interesting, but that's okay, I know how it works now.

2006-10-09T20:43:00.000-07:00

My digital photo that was the idea for the most recent stuff I've been working on. Those prints to come soon...

Need a costume idea?

2006-10-09T20:34:00.000-07:00

Pictures from one year ago today that turned up recently. Not exactly art from a lessor major, but definitely a major accomplishment that we were very proud of considering all the whiskey we consumed in the process. Notice the license plate (DRNKBUS) on lower picture.

things i never got around to putting up earlier

2006-05-25T22:43:00.000-07:00

2006-04-11T12:48:00.000-07:00

my latest project isn't going so hot, but a friend sent me this picture from when we were in high school today and it made me laugh. yeah, we were just as weird at 17 too.

more bricks...why do i do this to myself?

2006-04-03T16:03:00.000-07:00

here's the first print from plate # 7. it didn't scan so well, but you get the idea. i'm in the process of aquatinting it at the moment, i just wanted to get something up here because things are sorta starting to come together. for my series i'm working with sort of a theme of architecture and processes of time and decay. i'm a big fan of taking pictures of old dilapidated buildings. this is Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop on Bourbon St. in New Orleans. I added the lettering at the last minute because it needed balance on the top.

newer stuff - doors and brick

2006-04-03T15:52:00.000-07:00

Plate # 6. here's the first printing i did, no aquatint, just line etch, to see how it turned out.

here's the finished print. (well, maybe not quite finished yet.... i'm just pondering what i want to do next.) the bricks were a pain in the ass. i told myself i wouldn't do that again. did i listen to myself? of course not... see print from plate 7...

1st aquatint, 2nd attempt

2006-02-21T19:21:00.000-08:00

Here is the second printing of my first plate with aquatint. what did i do differently? i re-did the tears of helios process, and gave the ground, tree, background graduated etch times and left the buildings unetched by aquatint. this is definitely more the picture i was going for, but as far as i can tell, the aquatint didn't take as well on the background parts as on the shadowed-ground areas. another problem: a splotch on the lower shadow that must not have had much aquatint initially. also i think the spanish moss hanging from the tree should hang down further so there isn't that blank area, and there should also be more of it. what i do like is the overall values of the 4 parts together, although i think the background could be darker. here is where i also learned that for some strange reason, i really like doing buildings.

1st aquatint

2006-02-21T19:14:00.000-08:00

Here's my second attempt at acid etch with the added bonus of aquatint. Assignment: atrocities. this is my rendition of slave cabins that i saw at Evergreen Plantation just outside of New Orleans. what did i learn? i didn't get enough tears of helios on my plate so i didn't get much texture from that. also, i didn't wipe the plate of ink enough, so it looks pretty murky. i wanted the ground to look darker than the open space, and to not be the same value as the buildings. and on we go to my revised print....

1st acid etch

2006-02-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

Assignment: 1st ever asphaltum and acid etch. This print is pretty much a complete wreck. I guess this is the time where i say, oh it's a wreck, but I learned a hell of a lot from it. So, as promised:

1. I forgot to write backwards on the plate, so in the original print, the letters/words are backwards. I scraped them off and used a burnisher with oil, but i did not do this very well as is apparent from the big shadow under the words. i guarantee i won't forget this after getting so pissed about it.

2. I need to get back and work on my drawing skills which i've neglected as a result of getting a new camera and photoshop. this looks like it was done by a 5 year old.

3. Here is where i learned that i like crosshatching and the effects you get from it.

First print ever

2006-02-21T19:00:00.000-08:00

here is the first drypoint i ever did, EVER, even before that last one. Assignment: texture. what did i learn from this? that i needed to sharpen my scribe tool thing. (Oh, sweet revelation...)

a print!

2006-02-02T22:22:00.000-08:00

a second attempt at drypoint...just a little guy