This is a long overdue update on the printing I’ve been doing over at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
Not too long ago, I started making woodcut relief prints for the first time. I enjoyed the process so much that I wanted to expand on it and do a series… so I ended up writing a story and based the prints on it. When I finish, there will be ten prints and a story page (most likely screen printed). I’m still very new to relief printing, so it’s been a slow, learning process, but it’s exciting to see the prints come together.
detail of printed page (the physician)
block detail
prints drying
detail of block I’m currently carving
Updates from January, 2013
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Relief Printing
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Cover for The Land Line Quarterly
Here is the cover I did for the April 2012 Issue of The Land Line Quarterly, a new Chicago publication featuring lots of bizarre and wonderful essays, comics, interviews and such.
It’s exciting to have a new arts journal around town, and it has a great collection of contributors so I’m definitely looking forward to future issues. The paper has its own blog, with more info and other things.
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Wheel of Life at the Rubin Museum of Art
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been invited to participate in the “Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics” exhibit currently on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. The exhibit features an extensive collection of comics related to Tibet, ranging from 1940’s through present day.
In conjunction with the exhibition is a series called Karma-Con, for which eight artists and illustrators have been invited to visually interpret different segments of the Tibetan Wheel of Life. This is the part of the exhibit that I am participating in. The final wheel will be constructed from parts submitted by each artist, and ‘unveiled’ at the museum April 18th.
The Wheel of Life is a representation of Buddhist beliefs about life, death, rebirth… Beings are trapped in this cyclic existence, moving through with energy of past actions (karma).
Basically, life is a giant cracker consumed by a crazed mountain man:
I’ve been working on the Three Spiritual Poisons and The Dark and Light Path, at the center of the wheel… at the center of human suffering!!Other participating artists include Molly Crabapple, Ben Granoff, Rodney Greenblat, Steven Guarnaccia, Michael Kupperman, Josh Neufeld and Katie Skelly.
Visit the museum’s Karma-Con page to learn more about this project. Should be a fun time!
I’m still working on the final, but here are a couple ’sneak peeks’:
Also a few process sketches:
