Meet Sophie

Sophie And Wes hanging out while I Make a giant clown woodcut.

     Sophie and Wes  wearing my Country Croc T-shirt.

Great Snakes!

Sophies always been Cool! 

                                               

Check out the tiny toad.

             Working on a Linocut.

Another Snake!

                                               

Sophie holding some fabric I printed for her.

   

                                     

                        Reading on the Hammock.

                                                        

Me and Soph!

Back Off!

 Sophie caught a bird with her bare hands!

                                    

A surprise package for Ian

When Ian was first diagnosed with Leukemia, he got great packages in the mail almost every day! It really helped to keep his, and our, spirits up. Now that we're about a year and a half into his recovery , he doesnt get stuff in the mail much anymore. but when he does, it's a lot of fun for the whole family ! Ian got a package today from a friend of mine that was loaded with bags of delicious home made cookies, toys, microwave corn on the cob popcorn!!! and more !!! Thanks so much Lindsey!!!

It's about time we started a family blog

After many years and many half hearted attempts , we finally have a blog for the whole family! I am in the process of updating my website.  I wanted to really emphasize just how important my family is in relation to everything I do as an artist. There are a lot of places to look if you want to see pictures of my artwork, this is really about all the stuff we do together as a family.

Last month back in April we went on a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas as Ians' Make a Wish.

Most people that know me know that  our seven year old Ian has been battling Leukemia  for about a year and a half.I'll be writing more about the cruise, and more about Ian in future posts but for now I just wanna go upstairs and hang with the whole family....

LRMA Shirts /raw materials

notes

Switching over to Tumblr click here to go now

Ok for the few of you that ever hit this blog. You may or may not know that I did complete all 52 woodcuts for the year!!! in fact I was done in November. I've been giving it a lot of thought and I guess I'm gonna switch on over to Tumblr, as I move forward to next years project. the 366 project. I'll be doing one 15" by 20" woodcut a day for the whole year. plus it's a leap year so I get to do 366 woodcuts next year!!! like this year ,I'll be updating on facebook, twitter and my website, but I think Tumblr is better for my purposes than this blog, I guess I can always switch back if I change my mind anyway right..... ok see ya at Tumblr or facebook
thanks Sean

Week 40 Woodcut 45

All caught up and current !!! i did screw up the order of the text on this block , oh well too late now...

Week 39 Woodcut 44

so I think I'm gonna finish the 52 print series by doing these last nine or whatever on Mississippi people

Week 38 Woodcut 43

Week 37 Woodcut 42

not a great one...

week 36 Woodcut 41

so i'm trying to catch em up again heres another one

Week 35 Woodcut 40

I dont know if i really need this blog,twitter,tumblr,facebook, and my website . the blog seems the most superflous. It's so hard to post here regularly but never the less i keep making the woodcuts so I'm gonna keep posting em everywhere ...

Week 34 Woodcut 39

This one seems a bit incomplete. although I do have some ideas of what to do to finish it if i ever get back around to it....

Week 33 Woodcut 38

This one was on time but I'm posting it late here. anyway I liked it allright ....

Week 32 Woodcut 36

This one was better , I know i should be better about posting these on time but fuck it, I only have so much time in a day right?

Week 31 Woodcut 36

This one was a real dud. but thats why I make one a week, so my life can go on even when I make a cruddy woodcut , there is always hope that next weeks' woodcut will be better...

Week 30 Woodcut 35 Speed Kills

I can't believe I'm 35 woodcuts into this project, that's pretty good for just under 7 months. I really can't wait to start the new year and get crackin on my one woodcut a day project. those prints wont be quite as big, they'll probably be 15 by 20 or something like that , but one everyday is gonna be insane I can't wait! In the meantime , this one is nothing special but at least it is done!

Week 29 Woodcut 34

I got this one in one time! Been wanting to do a block with the Mountain Dew hillbilly for a while so this is what I ended up with.

Week 28 Woodcut 33

Ok here's the print I was planning on doing for week 28, instead i was a week late or more.....

The Dog ate my Homework

Well I was over a week late posting this one,but I had a good excuse I was working like mad on this giant woodcut I made at Evil Prints It is 60" by 40" , my hand still hurts when I think of all that cutting in such a short time.( I basically cut the whole thing /all four blocks in about 3 days...ouch!

Week 27 Woodcut 32

All caught up ... this one is going to be made into a poster for a couple of Steamroller events I'm doing later this year....

Week 26 Woodcut 31

too Big to Fail, this guy reminded me of a banker for some reason.....

Week 25 Woodcut 30

So i took an image I made for YeeHaw Industries and redid it for this OWAW project.... thats whay happens when you run out of ideas....

Week 24 Woodcut 29

Im sorry I've been posting these late. kind of defeats the purpose of a blog.... Viaduct Why a duck .... Remember the Marx Brothers ?

week 23 Woodcut 28

Piggyback ride....

Week 22 Woodcut 27

I had posted this using tweetdeck or something and it didnt work so here goes

Week 21 Woodcut 26

I finished this one on time and posted it on time, See, I'm getting caught up and June ought to be a great month..... this is just a skull but I think it's the best one I've ever made.... 20" by 30"

Week 20 Woodcut 25

This one was actually a few days late in getting finished but I did post it elsewhere before right now, , like I said May has been rough....this is for a Poster fro one of my favorite bands Five Eight....and like always 20" by 30"...

week 19 Woodcut 24

May has been a very hectic month for me on every level. I'm just now catching up with things... This print has been done and was posted on facebook, just not here until now, sorry

week 18 Woodcut 23

was nice to see that Printeresting.org threw up a thumbnail link to my OWAW blog this week! and here is me newest woodcut for the project this was inspired by the upcoming Boston Spaceships album entitled " Let It Beard" it is 20" x 30" like all the rest of them....

Week 17 Woodcut 22

Ok this one got finished AND posted on time.... Pencil Pushers.... it's 20" x 30" as always....

Week 16 Woodcut 21

I was up at Ole Miss as a visiting artist and so i didnt post this everywhere last week but i did get it done on time and here it is....

Week 15 Woodcut 20

Well I've hit 20 woodcuts already! most of them are pretty decent but a couple are duds.... regardless, I'm stoked to be doin this as it has really kept me active all year so far this woodcut like all the rest is 20" by 30"....

Week 14 Woodcut 19 For real

Ok I got back from Chattanooga and did this in one day, this is another one that would really benefit from the multiblock treatment , and maybe in afew days I'll get around to it in the meantime this is done 30" by 20 " like all the rest....

Week 14 Woodcut 19- REJECT

Ok this was supposed to be woodcut 19 , I was trying to hurry to get this done early as I was going to Chattanooga for an Outlaw Printmakers show last weekend, but I kept making bad cuts and couldnt ever salvage the shaky drawing. in the end i decided to print it just to show that I'd been working. the response ended up being favorable enough for it so maybe later I'll go back and work it up into a color woodcut and see if I can save it until then this has been rejected....

Week 13 Woodcut 18

Ok , heres the story on this one, I made this image originally for Yeehaw Industries they ended up using it for a tshirt graphic. they still have the original block, so i thought I'd just pretty much do the same thing over again so I could use the block in my installations. I had tried to develop it into more of a narrative image than the first attempt, I was gonna make it a swamp scene i had a standup bass playing rabbit in there plus the mouse and even had a couple of turtles, but i screwed up some of the imporatnt cuts and ended up just cutting all that junk away... but I do think I'm gonna do a block with just the rabbit now ..... anyway here it is. ( 20" by 30" just like all the rest

Week 13 Woodcut 18

Ok , heres the story on this one, I made this image originally for Yeehaw Industries they ended up using it for a tshirt graphic. they still have the original block, so i thought I'd just pretty much do the same thing over again so I could use the block in my installations. I had tried to develop it into more of a narrative image than the first attempt, I was gonna make it a swamp scene i had a standup bass playing rabbit in there plus the mouse and even had a couple of turtles, but i screwed up some of the imporatnt cuts and ended up just cutting all that junk away... but I do think I'm gonna do a block with just the rabbit now ..... anyway here it is. ( 20" by 30" just like all the rest

Week 13 Woodcut 17

This one has been finished since last sunday I think, I had posted on facebook, it didnt get a lot of comments or likes. Maybe it looks too much like a rebel flag for some people , or maybe it it's just not that good. either way, it's done and I've moved on to the next woodcut anyway again it's 20" by 30"

Week12 Woodcut 16

Well after a great spring break and SGC in st louis. i'm back on the blocks. finished this up the other day, might make it into a four block color print this weekend .... Trail of Tears .... 30" by 20"

The First Fifteen...

Heres the graphic i came up commemorating my first fifteen woodcuts for the OWAW project... yes I had more important things to do than waste my time on this but I didnt feel like cutting today....