Ezekiel 6:5

This is an in process image of the screen print I'm working on now about a passage from Ezekiel. Hope to be done before Thanksgiving; I only have two more layers left, and getting one done tonight.

Clifford

This was my first screen print. YAAAY! The North Dakota punk band Clifford has not to my knowledge had the chance or funds to make any merch to sell at their shows. So I used this assignment to make some prints they could sell. I hope people buy them!

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams

Roanoke

This was a mixed media print consisting of linoleum cut over xerox print of a collage. The space on the left was left for a binding, as it was later made into a book with similar prints contributed by the rest of the class members. The prints in the book centered on the theme "Lost" (luckily no one mentioned the TV show); mine deals with the missing colony of colonial Roanoke Virginia. When the British suppliers to the village returned one year, the found the population gone with no clue to their whereabouts other than the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree in the village.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Leif Ericson

These were made as a sort of tribute to Leif Ericson, the TRUE discoverer of the Americas. Haha... This is a five layer, linoleum cut print.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Detective Dracula

This was a linoleum cut relief print. We were allowed to do whatever we wanted, and I chose to do Dracula. After sketching for a while I thought his his collar looked like a detective's jacket. So I drew him as a sort of a film noir Dracula.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Cross Stamp

This was my first print EVER! It was just a rubber stamp, but I likes it. I likes it a lot.
Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Ezekiel 6:5

This is a sketch about Ezekiel 6:5 ("The most hardcore book of the Bible" - Nate Cariveau), where God tells the Israelites that he will "Lay [their] bones round [their] altars" because they have left him to worship idols. This will be turned into a screen print for my Intro to Print Paper Book Class.
Hopefully it comes out well!

Done for my Intro to Print Paper Book Class with Jody Williams.

Slav Spirit

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This was a sort of tribute/ emblem for the Vikings of Scandinavia. It incorporates symbols from Norway (elk) and Sweden (Linnea Borealis).
This is the finished art from a sketch I drew a while ago.

Opposites - "Prickly Pear" and "Bison"

"Prickly Pear"


"Bison"



These pieces were intended as calender illustrations illustrating the opposites Flora and Fauna. I wanted to do something with a Western theme, so I chose a plant and animal that would have been common to the lives of the two figures, but I wanted the Flora and Fauna to be the subjects, not the figures. Because of this, I placed them in the foreground and out of balance with the rest of the piece. Also it was really fun to research and create my own patterns, symbolizing American Indian and American cowboy aesthetics.

Done for my Illustration Topics Class with Tom Garrett.

Childhood Memory

This was an assignment to get us "in touch with our inner child." We were told to illustrate a memory from our childhood. I remember one time my mom let me go and play in a mud puddle in my shorts and a bucket. I think that's the only time I ever did that, or it occurred to me to do that, so it stuck in my mind. Also, there is a photo of me sitting bum down in a ten gallon pale with my legs and head sticking out the top. For the sake of avoiding a very confusing image, I just stuffed the whole of "myself" in the bucket for this illustration.

Done for my Children's Book Illustration Class with Nancy Carlson.

P.S. I find this image somewhat disgustingly cute.

Underwater Prince

This was a two page spread illustration for my children's book class. The prompt was "imagination" so I got to do whatever I want. I had been on sort of a mini tentacle spree with my doodles and a few illustrations, and while I was finishing this someone said, "That's perfect. It goes along perfectly with the whole octopus trend!" I have since gotten over my tentacle phase.

Paranormal ABCs

X is for X-Rays that light up the night.


Y is for "Yelp;" my issue of fright.


Z is for Zone that the government holds tight.


This was part of an idea for a children's alphabet book. Aside from "Q," X and Z are often the most difficult letters to find words for. Because of this, I decided to start the edition with "X, Y, Z," and just fill in the rest someday. While thinking of "X," I thought, "X-Files;" ergo the paranormal.

Done for my Children's Book Illustration Class with Nancy Carlson.