Art Piece

Here is that etching I had in the Amoeba Art Show. Which I ended up selling !!!
An artist proof from the series called Black Clouds. This etching is done in the Faux Mezzotint technique.
Which basically starts off as a black plate, after dusting rosin an fusing it in acid.
Then you would burnish out all your light tones. With very little line work. At times i not only used a burnisher, but coarse sandpaper as well. Printed with bone black on Rives BFK (100% cotton rag. I hinged the art piece with rice paper, framed and matted the picture myself. The frame I found on 8th Ave.

The perfect technique for what I was trying to achieve.
A dark and cloudy polluted landscape.
Inspired by German Expressionist work 1880-1933.
So in this piece i was going for that aesthetic: Dark gloomy impressions, but soft and subtle at times.

Printmaking is definitely one of my favorite medium in the arts, not only do you have to draw the image, but you have to craft and put some serious time and work into your plate. In this case it takes quite some time to complete.
With this process it can be very expressive. Maybe later I will incorporate some screen printing as well.

Amoeba Art SHow

Hello,

I have a piece in the Amoeba Art show this Friday. I've been doing signs, graphics for Amoeba
for 10 years now. It started with hand painted/ hand cut signs now I print them digitally for Amoeba. I also currently started printing some t-shirt projects for them. I started doing signs
for Tower back in the Golden Age. With a few months of High School left this was the perfect job back then. I Got to use paint brushes, airbrush, exacto knives, etc. and endless amounts of Golden Acrylics I ever needed and !! Cranking out signs 40 hours a week at Tower was not bad at all........
Then I ended up doing signs for Rasputin in Berkeley and now Amoeba.
Don't get me wrong I still like doing signs digitally, it's just faster now.

Busy Busy Busy

It' been a busy month , haven't had the time for new posts.

Arms all busted up, been printing so much I tore a muscle tissue in my left arm.

I have also been fortunate to take the space upstairs recently, so I decided to add a second dryer.
Currently we use 4/4, 6/6 and 4/1 manual presses. We also have a Nuarc 1200 watt light source and vacuum.

Welcome

pelotone.net

Just did some lp bags for Pelotone.net
jamie runs Pelotone and this company sells the finest turntable and
audio equipment available. I've seen these turntables in magazines before and
they're incredible.
These turntables are great for all genres of music including Punk Rock ! Nice !
They also sell some of the finest record cleaners I've ever seen.
for more info look here.

ZeroPerGallon

Hot off the press is the new Zero Per Gallon shirts.
Printed on American Apparel Track Shirts.
Check out the creator Jonny5's Blog here
Great concept and Good Stuff !

zeropergallon

These will be currently sold at Park Life on Clement St.

parklife

Ben

Things have been super busy at the shop lately.
I have a Big contract job so
my friend Ben came in to help me knock out the
boxes off shirts piling up in my house and shop !
I can always count on Ben to pump and kick it in gear.

These pictures were taken by Ben.
Thanks Ben !