The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,200 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 53 trips to carry that many people.
I have recently taken up a commission for Latitude 53, an Edmonton non-profit artist run center, to develop promotional material for their annual event The Fine Art of Schmoozy. The event will take place in early December, and I am to design a promotional poster, tickets, newspaper and online ads among other things which the event requires. I have also just moved to Vancouver, and still in the process of unpacking, so I’m only posting black&white sketches done for the poster; the first two are probably the most successful ones and that is the direction I will take. Speaking of changing locations, now that most of the hassle of moving is over, I am eagerly looking for a job in Vancouver as an illustrator or graphic designer. If you’re interested in employing me for a commission, contract, or full-time position, feel free to contact me.
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A fundraiser show, which was recently organized by the SDA (student design association), had an amazing selection of longboards for sale. These were made and painted/printed/decorated by students, about fifteen boards in total, and one of those was mine! Have a look
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got an email today saying my work is being featured on Coforlot Member’s Gallery, not something that happens every day,pretty cool!
a conversation with the officer, size 44×30″
the text on the print reads ” Guilt is never to be doubted. Other courts cannot follow that principle, for they consist of several opinions and have higher courts to scrutinize them. That is not the case here.”, taken from Kafka’s Penal Colony
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guilt is never to be doubted, size 16.5×29″
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arresting the decay, size 18.25×19.5″
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detail 2 (imprinted word)
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arresting the decay II, size 15×20″
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untitled (malignant), size 23×30.5″
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etchings and aluminum plate lithographs
all of the ten images below are part of a series called Feisty Babies, size 10×8″
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disastrous desires, size roughly 15×17″
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five seconds, size 15×20″
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this train is on fire, size roughly 30×40″
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gentle beasts, size 22×30″
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carnival, size 22×30″
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also be sure to check out my book In Between the Sheets on a separate page
both of these are lithograph prints, the first one has a silk-screen layer added (the color of the squirrel).
Hannah’s boots, size 10×11″
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Sweet Dreams, size 30×22″
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Sweet Dreams (submerged), size 30×22″
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Little thieves, size roughly 15×20″
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Mediations on the word ‘Dissent’, size roughly 30×17″
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the previous two are done using photo-lithography, silk-screen, and chine-colle (only the first two are chine-colle), size roughly 25×18″
photo-etching, lithography, silkscreen, chine-colle
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lithography, chine-colle
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These next few prints were inspired by the play Penthesilea by Henrich Von Kleist,
the imagery was based on a specific line in the text ’the burning wish to capture and possess‘, size roughly 30×22″
lithography, chine-colle
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lithography
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Here is my most recent work from the second term of the printmaking class, all of these are litho-prints, some are done using chine-colle technique.
Birds of Play, size 17×13″
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Grandma B, size 10×10″
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Different variations of the same print ’Tumbleweed’ using different papers, size 30×22″
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‘High Expectations’ duotone litho-print, size 22×28″
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This is my work from fall and winter 2008. All of these are etchings on paper, some black and white, as you can see, some have color in them.
from the series “Dangers of Maternity”
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Failure to Extract Information
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from the series “Parabolas of Dreams”, size 12×19″
Parabolas of Dreams: Comfort? II (sold)
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Parabolas of Dreams: Beginning
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Parabolas of Dreams: Comfort?
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Parabolas of Dreams: Peak
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Parabolas of Dreams: Fall
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