Woweee! Things got suuuuuper busy and suddenly I was on a plane and now here I am in beautiful Portland, Oregon, enjoying a very relaxing holiday break! I will try and post some updates but really, I’m just enjoying walking in the city and hanging out with amazing friends & family and eating tons of delicious food :)
That’s about it.
Happy New Years everyone!!
<3 <3 <3
sanya
Currently working on the posters for the upcoming moe. New Year’s Eve show. The posters are for their 20th Anniversary performance at the House of Blues in Boston, MA.
Printed over 200 posters with the first color last night, arms very sore but it looks great! ;) Very excited to see it all come together, I’ll be posting more photos in the coming days…
New illustration for an upcoming story in the next issue of the Spanish magazine, Una Buena Barba. The story deals with the phenomenon of the (mainly unsolved) female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The issue is due to come out at end of December.
…a few photos from printing the 2nd color (pink) of The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air
drying the prints
washing out the screen
I finished printing this page spread last night, I just need to photograph/scan the final version, and I’ll be posting it soon!
Here is one of the finished printed pages. It’s illustrating the first story in the book, The Story of Shock-headed Peter (or Struwwelpeter!). The story/poem is about a very slovenly boy that wont clean up or cut his nails or his hair. So, I had this vision of him being almost plant-like, with roots and such taking over… This is a three-color screenprint on the page, approx 8.75″ x 10.75″… enjoy the little preview of the book!
click for larger view
Here’s the illustration process from pencil to the final four-color screenprint of The Story of Fidgety Philip. The story revolves around a boy who won’t sit still at the dinner table, eventually grabbing at the tablecloth and knocking everything to the floor… This illustration faces the text for a different story.
Enjoy the process!
The finalized pencil drawing (approx 8″ x 10″)
which is inked
Once the layout and color separations are done, the first color – red – is printed:
then the 2nd color (gray)
here’s a detail of the first two colors
setting up to print the 3rd color (blue)
Different versions of the blue color are achieved through halftones (varying dot patterns)
Lastly, printing the 4th color (dark brown)
… And the dark brown ink sets the lines! Here’s a closeup of the final printed illustration:
A whoooole lotta work for two pages of the book!! ;)
An upcoming workshop at Spudnik Press, taught by Ness Rago and myself.
Ever wanted to screenprint your own collection of holiday cards from scratch but don’t know where to start? Come learn how in this quick and fun introduction to screenprinting on paper! You’ll enjoy warm treats & cider and walk away with your own handmade greeting cards!
How it all works:
Students will come with a 1-2 color design that they would like to make into a line of greeting cards. Screens will be pre-coated with photographic emulsion to allow students to focus on perfecting their design, transferring their image to a screen, mixing colors, and finally…. printing! Students are asked to bring 20-40 blank cards to print on, as well as the finished design on a thumb drive or CD (non-digital imagery is also okay). All other materials will be provided.
Wednesday, December 8th
from 6 – 10 pm at Spudnik Press
with Ness Rago and Sanya Glisic | Price: $40 (15% off for Spudnik Press Members)
Visit http://www.spudnikpress.com to sign up for the workshop!
Some printing progress from the title-page spread I drew last week. This is just the right side, since the left will get printed on a separate sheet. Eventually they’ll meet up. Yay.
Printing the yellow ink first…
Then the gray color on top (hard to see in the photo but it’s actually gray halftones)
And then the blue ink. I love the green that happened there in the lines, I’ll have to explore that some more in the future… Click for larger views and detail!
Tonight I’ll be printing the last color – dark brown – which contains the title and text on the opposing page. I’ll be posting that in the coming days, stay tuned!
Here’s one of the finished spreads! This one happens to be in the center of the signature so the story actually relates to the image. It’s the fourth story in the book, ‘The Story of the Inky Boys’. Just to give you an idea of the dimensions, the sheet is 17.5″ x 11.5″; once folded, the actual pages of the finished book will be close to picture-book size, about 8.75″ x 10.75″.
Yesterday I spent most of the day sketching, drawing and inking the title page spread. It’s not finished yet but I wanted to photograph it before I end up spilling globs of ink on it or anything like that. The concept behind this image is to capture the sinister, whimsical mood of the book, so I created a tangled growth of thistly plants and faces; of couse I’ll be adding the title and other text, as well as color, etc…
here it is scanned (click for larger)
