Lantern

This is a lantern I made in one of my Art and Design Education classes.  It was a quick, twenty minute project.  The image was painted from memory, based on a series of drawings I've done of San Francisco city hall after the 1906 earthquake.  We used sumi ink on asian paper; then wrapped our paintings around lightweight aluminum wire, taping them in place to create lanterns. And just in case you're wondering, yes I formatted those photos like that on purpose.

                                                                         

  

Here are some images from the installation I just did.  You can read a little more about it in the previous two posts.

Bell and Gallaudet

   

Some of the plates (those thick speedball rubber ones) actually ended up looking much cooler than the prints. I handprinted all of them.  The plates are so squishy and crumbly that I thought, on the press, they might be a wrap.  I like Alexander Graham Bell (left) because he kinda came out looking like Karl Marx (no disrespect.)  If I just added some hair...  Edward Miner Gallaudet (right) just looks like a steam punk.

In progress...

 

I'm working on an installation that relates to my thesis (about ASL and Deaf education.) The top two images are carved speedball plates of Edward Miner Gallaudet (on the left, with the mustache) and Alexander Graham Bell (on the right, with the beard.)  I haven't printed them yet, but on the bottom is a graphite rubbing that gives more of a sense of what they'll look like printed. 

pieces of the rock

   

Brush pen on bristol board

18th and Mission

I started this drawing about five years ago.  I always liked the orange plastic roof siding on Herradero's and was thinking of doing a color print of it.  But I messed up the drawing and abandoned it.  About a year ago I started working on it again, as a sort of side-doodle.  I'd lost the reference photograph, so I just worked from memory and decided I was ok with the perspective getting weird.  Herradero's has long since closed, it is now the "Commonwealth Restaurant," a slow food place that donates a portion of its proceeds to local charities.  Conscientious gentrification?  I have very mixed feelings about SF food politics, especially in the Mission.  But one interesting thing concerning the Commonwealth: they removed the orange plastic siding, revealing an old mural (circa 1952) advertising Hunt's Donuts, here's a link to a pic.   I have my own teen memories of haunting Hunt's at the 25th hour.  That corner (Hunt's was actually located on 20th and Mission) has an interesting history that you can read more about here.  

Tom Scharpling

More often than not, I'm listening to the Best Show on WFMU while I draw.  This is my way of thanking Tom Scharpling.  He's truly the best.  Done in exactly three hours while listening to the show on Tuesday, January 17 (11x17, ballpoint pen and sharpie).  If you don't know, now ya know: http://wfmu.org/playlists/BS

More From My Sketchbook

More ball point pen/micron drawings from my sketchbook, all are roughly 6x8-7x7 inches

Houdini's Grave

These are pages from a small photocopied zine (I know, I know...I'm a dork) I made.  Each page is 4x6 inches (the same size as the original drawings which were done in ball point pen).  I've been leaving 'em on the subway.

image transfers

  These transfers are created by painting multiple layers of acrylic gel medium on a photocopy, in this case of my drawings, and then scrubbing away the paper after the medium has dried  The toner from the photocopy adheres to the built up gel medium..the end result resembles a drawing done on a piece of glue.  I also mixed some dirt and cyanotype into the gel medium.

sketchbook thangs

San Francisco city hall after the 1906 earthquake

   La Llorona                      

Claire Lilienthal House

Post 1906 quake,  Levi's canvas tent

these are all pen and ink (ball point, tis how I do) from a 6x8 inch sketchbook

H.A.T.

fountain pen drawing washed out with a lil water, from a 6x8 sketchpad.  this is the sale box at haight ashbury tshirts, where I'll probably end up selling Grateful Dead tie-dyes all over again once I'm finished purchasing my fancy NY masters degrees.

Bag Lady

Last year I taught a class of 8-10 year olds at Pratt's Saturday Art School.  This is from a project loosely based on lucha libre wrestling masks.  I ended up doing a linoleum cut based on the mask I made as a project sample (that mask got a lot of play in the studio...I wore it often while skyping my friends back home in San Francisco and dancing to reggaeton with my studio-mate)

ball point pen, 7x7 inch sketchbook

Three color reductive linoleum print.

Noise Ordinance

I did the illustrations for this super cool bay area compilation put out by Maximum Rock and Roll. You can order one here:

 http://maximumrocknroll.com/2011/07/29/noise-ordinance/ 

50million thanks to Paul Curran, Eric Butterworth, and Kevin McCarthey for being such swell and generous dudes.

guts n stuff

                                    
all done on 9x12 inch pieces of bristol board in ball-point pen

more from greenwood

  

 

Charlaine Harris

ball point pen and sharpie on bristol board (9x12 inches) Charlaine Harris wrote the trashy horror/romance novels upon which the hit HBO show "True Blood" is based...they have some of THEE most awkward, random sexual scenarios you'll ever read.  Also, we were born 4 days and 3 decades apart (under a very similar set of stars).

catching fame

Yeah, I decided to try doing graffiti at the ripe old age of 30.  Don't worry, it was legal and my mom approved.  Have you noticed that the graffiti world is dominated by a lot of really socially awkward goons?  Oh well.  Apparently this was up on some graffiti forum call 12 ounces and people thought it was "sick."  At least that's what some awkward goon told me.  

ROSIE!!!!

This is my friend's dog Rosie.  She is one of the best dogs I've ever known and dogs are better than people (every single time) so she's really just one of the best.

SF Columbarium

The black and white one is a linoleum cut, the sepia one is an etching.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_Society_Columbarium