Think Ink

Today is the opening of the show "Think Ink" at The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho. It will consist of art from the advanced printmaking class at BYU-I. Fifteen of my most recent prints will be shown and will be available for purchase. If you get a chance, come check it out. Open from May 8th- August 1st.

Oil Painting Class Projects

Painting #1

Painting #2

Painting #3

During this last semester I took an intro oil painting class. At first I was quite annoyed by how the class was being taught but by the end I really liked it. I think the reason I was having a hard time was because even though it is a four year school they still seem to treat it like a two year school, in the upper level classes you still get crammed with the fundamentals. Luckily in this class we were able to move past some of those things enough for me to enjoy painting. I think now I have a better opinion of still life's.

Workshop

These pictures are form our last workshop. The workshop was on how to do monotype prints. The photos are of the students work and one of nick demo pieces (the blue bird), me helping with the press and the student that attended.

Workshop

This Saturday my friend and fellow artist Nick and I were able to teach our second printmaking workshop for The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho. At this workshop we taught the students how to make a Drypoint print. It was a lot of fun and they gained a greater appreciation for intaglio printmaking.

Sent the Message

The print was a lot of fun to make. This intaglio print was made with line etching and aquatint but with a twist I used spray paint to get the gradient. If remember right it took three aquatints to get the different values in the print.

Workshop

Well here is a bit of great news. The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho has been really kind to the advanced printmaking students of BYUI in the past. So as a result they have ask me and my friend and fellow printmaker Nick Bontorno to teach workshops at there museum in the different methods of printmaking. If you are interested in attending the workshops follow the links to contact The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho.

The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho website
Classes & Workshops for Adults
Class Registration form

Listen

Well there, it really has been a while since I last posted. Mostly it has just been life that has taken over but I am still doing artwork. Well here is a mezzotint print of a phone in the window. The process uses a tool called rocker to make the dark area then we use a burnisher and scraper to make the light areas out of the dark.

Cord Bound

I think the cord bound book is one of the best looking books when done but is also one of the hardest to do well. Above is a cord bound book that I finished and the other book is what it looks like without the book cloth and end papers. Each folio is sewn around the cords and then the cord are glued to the cover.

Hidden Message

This phone print was a lot of fun to make but also very difficult. I started with a line etching and then stated the 3 different aquatints. The first one I just stop out for different tone. The second I spay painted to get gradient and third was multiple layers of spit bite.

For Sale

Answers

I have been slacking with my blogging but here is another of my phone prints. The phone was based on a candle stick phone highly stylized with much of the symbols used in other prints. The line etching was done using acrylic floor wax as my hard ground and the background was done with an aquatint then using a stencil I spray painted the areas I wanted stopped out.

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