Week 4 Woodcut Four

Heres my print for week four. It's just a simple woodcut alphabet , but it's something that I've wanted to do for some time. The thing that I am most excited about for this year/project is that i'll be making more woodcuts than I normally would and I'll be able to loosen up in tertms of subject matter and just take more chances....

Week Three Woodcut Three

Well I was working on something totally different as late as Tuesday and switched over to this one. i like it better. I actually am planning to make one woodcut a month in color and this will likely end up being the one...

Week TWO Print TWO January 8-15

Like I said, I didnt have the idea for making one print a week until I was well underway on this one and realized I was making one woodcut a week. So again, i am a day or two off schedule but I should get caught up this week, and I can now start posting updates along the way as I conceptualize,draw, and cut each new block!

Week ONE Print ONE

Ok: When I made this, I wasn't thinking about this project, actually I finished it on January 10 and I am just now starting the blog on the January 17th but I'll be caught up for print three week three in a couple of days....

Chocolate Angel

I found a great picture of this little girl in a thrift store back in Virginia. I always wonder about pictures of kids that get given away. did they get rid of the kids too?

Kids and Animals

I kept finding really cool ads with dogs smoking and stuff . don't forget I was making this stuff whn I didn't have any ideas for woodcuts. at kept me busy and helped me organize my thoughts....

Blameless

I used to spend a lot of time looking at the ground when I was walking to my job. I used to find a lot of empty cig packs and at the same time through my extensive research I discovered a number of intriguing celebrity edorsements cig ads.....

Old 3D Pieces

This is a bunch of 3D stuff , shadow box, whatever. its mostly 10 years old or so but I thought i'd post it here anyway I think some of it is on my website but I wanted to be more active on the blog anyway so....

things are gonna start happening now

i have been real busy for the last two months but now i have a new phone and internet plan so i'll be posting a lot more often and with more video. been selling a lot of shirts and prints last two weeks which is cool!and my hands are sticky with a ton of hot sauce all over them and my face. i think this was the best sauce i have made yet. lime ginger and habanero sauce hot wings! cant stop eating em but i gotta go print more. see ya

Rebel Scum - Sean Starwars at Barristers Gallery

i had a show in New Orleans last weekend at Barristers Gallery. It was great to see Andy Antippas( the gallery owner) he's pretty much my favorite person in New Orleans. We had a great turnout and sold a decent amount of work , which is always nice.... you can see a video of it here.
http://twitvid.com/TQQZO

The new face of Frankenberry

Ok new monster cereal makeover. most of them are pretty cool although i'm not diggin Boo Berry ok i'm not posting a link to the other images but i do have Fberry cause I just bought some!!!! heres a cool monster blog link i'd never seen before http://monsterscereal.blogspot.com/

Well its been a busy week. I'm trying to finish printing the gbv posters for the upcoming shows. I put together a nice little pre order package and have sold some but i do still have plenty left... I should be more active on the blog but i'm gettin better....

Boredom

Sitting around. just can't get the interest up to do much cutting on the woodblocks or printing anything so just takin pics and doin blog updates.I am getting excited about being more active on the blog though so thats something ...goin out and shootin a hundred rounds or so into some pumpkins would be kind of fun about now.... not gonna happen right now though...

Me , Nick, Some Guns and my shoes...

So last year Nick Arnold (a printmaking friend of mine up at Syracuse) came by to visit for a few hours and he posed for some pics with my guns , when i got up to Philly for SGC last April he gave me this killer little woodcut he made from one of the pics he took of us....

Something Cool

So you start to feel like you're on to something when people start making art from your quotes.... check out this cool woodcut from Levi Banker based on one of my quotes on facebook....

A few words about Throwback

Ok, We are now well into the third limited edition run of mt dew throwback, or is it the fourth counting the first version of throwback?. Anyway I gotta say that it stokes me out so much, to go into a store and be able to buy a can of Dew with that hillbilly artwork on it. Granted it would be cooler if the colors were predominately green with white and red , instead of the white green red scheme that they are using, but still it makes me happy to see it. It would be better still if the hillbilly was standing there pointing his gun and the pig and the outhouse etc were all there too. I'm so glad its back on the shelves the real sugar makes a big difference, the orange juice in it makes a big difference, ( the first run of throwback didnt have it....) It might not be quite as good as dew in a glass bottle from West Jefferson, NC but it's a great drink never the less....

I hate having to stop printing to eat

I have had an ongoing battle with the need to eat versus the need to print. I used to go days without eating , just fueled by Dew and ink fumes. I never went a day out of the studio.... now i'm siting down eating a plate of sausages and a hot dog instead of printing.... I still have ink on my hands and cans of Dew but I took the time out to eat . pretty basic stuff but it gets in the way of what yer tryin to do.

Kickbox Kangaroo

ok its a stretch to call this dude a kickboxer but it's the best I could do...

Tophat Turtle

another one from my Alphabet project

Snake in a sneaker

I'm trying to do the alphabet for a project with Yeehaw Industries, this is just a prototype, They are gonna ad typography to it.

alligator with an apple

Zest of Yore

heres a woodcut print on billboard paper , i used this image to create a t shirt design for Z.O. Y. they seem to like it and will put it into production in 2010

redundancy

So if you are at my website and visit my blog , you come here , and see my twitter posts and my flickr photo slideshow, if you goto my facebook page you see the same pics from a different source and of course all my twitter updates... theres not a lot of original content here, but at least i can make my updates in more than 140 characters....

still cutting, still printing, still kicking ass

I wanted to update my blog even though it does so automatically via twitter on this side panel.... anyway heres something i made for Kelp Records in Canada last week. it was a poster for a big ole bbq they co hosted as part of PopMontreal , which looks to be a killer event and hopefully I can swing a Visiting artist gig out there concurrent with the festival next year, whew , that's a a long sentence! anyway heres the poster

Wolfbat goes Savage...

Dennis McNett went totally nuts and decided to have my savage ink graphic tatooed on his leg. For such a great artist and great friend to do that means a lot to me . obviously... i think it looks killer!!!

some updates

theres a bunch to update , don't forget to click on the links i post on twitter , lots of pics there too... anyway heres a few key blocks of some pig images I am working on...

When Prints are Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Make Prints

Oprah says its great to have your own private jet I wouldn't know, but I got to admit it feels good to hold an AK 47 while standing in your own studio.

New Prints

Just printed these up this weekend

prints from Syracuse

heres some of what went down in Syracuse.... oh yeah that is an almost full sheet of mdf we printed it using a steamroller it was fun theres video of it somewhere ....

Syracuse Action

Ok last month or so I was a visiting artist at Syracuse University.Dusty Hrbig and his crew put up with me for nearly a week and we got a good little bit done. I love the poster they made for my visit!!!

catching up

ok i know i havent been very consistant ont his but here goes the updates first off the printmaking book by bill Fick and Beth Grabowski features on of woodcuts on the cover so i was stoked about that of course!!

check out my t shirt design/s on Threadless.com

Well I posted my first of what will likely be many designs to Threadless.com. response has been encouraging so far. it looks like a thousand people voting with a score of three or higher will get you enough to have your designmade into a t shirt. take a peek and see what you think.

did I mention the Aphids?

Heres some other stuff no theme just recent pics

more images for mystery skateboard project

more graphics for unnamed skate mission this makes six

did you see these calendars

heres some new big calendars /calenders we did with Yeehaw plus some other smaller cards and a new size card they are doing. buy them @ Yeehawindustries.com or email me .

return to Elgin...

Was in Elgin last week printing with Joel Peck and his crew . we made a couple of prints , did a talk , printed t shirts, played some video games. you know the usual.... check out the pics.