Two New Prints

Ink Bleeds II was a great success this past Friday night. A ton of great work hanging on the walls by a lot of talented artists. Thanks to everyone who came out, grabbed a print and said hi. And a special thanks to the Art Academy and the slew of help from everyone who kindly volunteered their time to pull this thing off. Definitely was great fun.


I debuted two new art prints on Friday. First up is Bats, Bats, Bats. I had posted process pics of these guys randomly over the last couple of weeks. These guys are ready to attack your walls day or night with their glow-in-the-dark ink. These were screenprinted by the fine folks at the BLDG. Printed on Steel Blue French Paper, these are signed and numbered edition of 55.


The Bird Watcher is another new print fresh of the press that takes you on a tight time flight across the moonlit sky. Also printed by the BLDG, these are 19x25, 3 colors printed on Nightshift Blue French Paper. As always signed and numbered edition of 50.

Both on sale now in the store.

Ink Bleeds II Update

The gallery show on Friday is from 5pm to 9pm. I originally said from 9pm to 12am. That would actually be the after party. Yes I know, I am dumb, dumb.

Ink Bleeds II

The Art Academy of Cincinnati will be hosting Ink Bleeds II Friday, November 20, from 5pm to 9pm. A whole slew of talented artists will be showcasing their work and selling prints. Artists include: Jay Ryan, Spike Press, Powerhouse, Angryblue, Cricket Press, Galaxy Reno, Tommy Sheehan, Human Tree, Neltner Creative as well as myself. Swing by and maybe grab an early holiday gift. Should be a great night.

The Legend of the Cows

Cows getting struck by lightning, coming back from the dead and out for brains...it doesn't get much better than that. No sir. Just wrapped up this illustration for Neltner's Farm Fall Festival. The poster, designed by Keith Neltner, was used to promote their haunted corn maze. And just like all great halloween legends, this one is based on a true story.

New Panda Print

Well these have been a long time in the making. I had this idea, which feels like decades ago, to do a print that was half screenprinted and the other half hand painted making each print unique. 21 prints and 4 months later they are finally finished. Since I always enjoy reading about the creative process of others, I decided to document my entire process starting with a simple sketch. The fine peeps at the BLDG were kind enough to help a fellow out with the screenprinting. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the pics. On sale now!


My initial sketch.






Here I had printed out my panda sketch to full size to use as a guide as I painted on the film that would be used to shoot the screen and lay down the white.





Screenprinting madness!





The white is down and its time to do some inking.








Whew, done and done! Thats about it. I think it took me just as long to write this post as it did to make these guys. Hope you enjoyed the process.

Bzzzzz

Here are a few pics of a painting I created last fall for my son Henry to hang in his room. He seems to really like it and refers to it by making a buzz sound. Its certainly cuter when he does it rather than me trying to describe it.