Observation

Summer tunes: Canned Heat

If this doesn't scream summer for you, I don't know what does

Snapshots of summer

Summer tunes: Bessie Smith

3 prints & a painting

I haven't been able to make any new prints this summer but here are a few from the end of the year:

A dry point printed on archer's cover paper; Yes I am not best craftsman around but I like the overall image

A woodcut of a tree ring printed two once with black ink then overlapped with a sepia toned on rice paper

The last woodcut I did for the end of the semester, its inspired by the Oaxacan animals printed on rice paper

One of my first summer paintings that I have been able to do! I love the proportions and the hidden geometric shapes, its white acrylic ink on grey cason paper

Hopefully as bummer school comes to an end I can find time to do more leisurely painting/printmaking but for now this will have to do

Madness

A series of crayon portraits combined. Its madness.

Here are the original crayon portraits:

A cooler Cactus cooler

For summer school we had to rebrand and design an existing product. I choose to do cactus cooler, which is a fruit soda down in SoCal. It is ridiculously ugly so I wanted to give it some class.

I did the cactus illustration and the whole idea is that the graphic and text would be silk screened on the bottle. I also expanded the brand and gave it three new flavors.

I made the cactus cooler cooler

(I would recommend to click on the image to see more details)