Retaliation
Retaliation
Screen print, ink, color pencil and watercolor.
New art, sort of the companion piece to Volatile, but not a diptych (not the same size unfortunately). My break starts soon, so I can have loads of free time to get all my errands, personal tasks, work, and submission stuff taken care of these next few weeks. I have a screen that’s been ready to print for weeks now, maybe over a month. It’s hard letting something like that sit around and not complete.
Also, I just installed an Email subscription widget on the side bar for those who want to keep up with the blog, but don’t subscribe to google reader or rss feeds. I think I like this new concept and I post so infrequently these days that it wouldn’t be so spammy for anybody that’s wants to avoid those subscriptions. I want to start a monthly newsletter in the future, but this can work in the meantime. Subscribe away!
About the online stores
I just wanted to make a quick note about the online stores. I haven’t restocked Etsy yet due to all the previous sales/shows mentioned in the last post. I plan on restocking the store and maybe refreshing the inventory on Big Cartel with all the artwork I’m receiving back from the MCAD art sale this upcoming week. I will think up a nice winter holiday sale as well. Be on the look out for that in the near future.
Upcoming Shows and Sales
If you’re wanting to buy my work and live in Minneapolis, Miami, or St. Louis, this is the perfect time. Here are shows or sales that I’m currently involved in:
Currently going on TONIGHT and tomorrow. Be sure to check the second floor printmaking area, that’s where most of my art will be found. More info about the Sale here.
If all things go right with the delivery (nervous about where I shipped it), my art will be featured with other friends and artists at Art Basel in Miami. It should be amazing, please check out the website for more information.
And finally, in St. Louis, I will be participating in this event. I’m going to try and sell all my really affordable art (read: cheap, you should take advantage of this). Some of the prints will be old (my undergraduate prints are all robot relief prints. C’mon, ROBOTS), but I think that they’ll fit this event more than my newer work. You can read about the event on this website.
New Art: Volatile
Volatile
Screenprint, color pencil, ink and watercolor
Prints available through Society 6.
I managed to color one of the misprints into something, now I will work on the other print (along with drafting future projects that need to happen).
Studio Graveyard: artworks that lead to nowhere
The stop and go of the studio makes it difficult to commit to finishing works. I have a feeling there’s going to be plenty of graveyard work-in-progress images. Here are possible works that have no expectation of making it to the finish line.
I started these images, but lost an idea of where to take them. I would love to use them because they have a sense of drama, but at the moment they’re a little incomplete. They might need alterations to fit a future idea, but I’m not clinging to any hope.
My last print run didn’t work out so well. The screens were hazy and the images I had were ones that I’m ready to move away from altogether. I might play with collage or drawing on top of them, but it just feels like I’m done with this series of work. I’ve been overly bored by everything I do, which is not a great feeling to have when I’m trying to get back into working. I have ideas of what to do next, but I dislike how this work lingers, haunting me with its unfinished business.
Hive 5: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Anthology
This post has been long in the making. I got my copy in the mail sometime around Labor Day, but I’m just now collecting myself to write a post about it.
Here are photos on the cover design that Mark Leicht created with my illustration for the cover as well as a spread from my art buddy Cole Closser whose comic I enjoyed in the anthology.
Mark used vellum as a dust cover to layer the bees. It’s pretty nifty in person.
Here’s what the cover looks like without the dust jacket (but more purple, my camera washed it out).
Detail of the inside dust jacket.
Cole Closser is another alumni of the Missouri State undergraduate program. He’ll be a big deal one day, just wait.
If you want to get a copy yourself, order online at the store (printed copy at $10) or download the pdf (at the low, low cost of $3)
Art Inspiration: Eduardo Recife
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
I don’t look up as many collage artists as I should, but of the few that I am a fan of is Eduardo Recife. I was first introduced to his work in graduate school and now that I seem to be incorporating more collage into my own work it feels important to keep his work in mind as a reference. I love his mixture of collage, patterns, and personal hand drawn touches.
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
Get In If You Want To Live
Here’s the book that I’ve been included to illustrate one of the stories: Get In If You Want To Live. I got my copy in mail and it’s lovely. All the illustrations in it are beautiful and the writing is fantastic and funny.
Here’s my page spread:
I was excited to finally view the rest of the illustrations. It was neat to see my grad classmate, Robert Algeo’s illustration, along with other artists I’ve come to admire from Minneapolis and internationally.
If you’re interested in this fine quality small press book, you can order it here.
Prepping for the MCAD Art Sale
Getting ready to finally “bag n’ tag” my artwork for the MCAD Art Sale. I’m sending mostly unframed work since I need to ship instead of hand deliver. I know my sales would be potentially better if the art is framed, but hopefully people will seek out the work.
Ugh, I hate filling out those tags.
Anyway, if I’m ambitious enough, I’ll post the images that will be on sale throughout the month of November until the event. If you live in the Minneapolis area, you should check the school wide sale. There are lots of great art to collect that are all sold at a great value (artists get 80% of the commission, so less need to adjust the price of the artwork).
I got sucked into the addicting world that is known as Pinterest. I mostly use it for my students, but I have to admit that I enjoy the image collecting experience.
If anybody wants to add me, I’ll add you back. I would like to find as many great examples of art and design as possible for future semesters.
