Bluejay

Bluejay
9″ x 12″ on vintage music sheet
Gouache, India Ink and Micron Pen

Silk Screens

The silkscreen aftermath of the next couple LP album covers. I will show the prints some other time.

Silk Screen

Water color and Screen print

So Lush, So Deadly
Watercolor and Screen Print on Bristol Paper
12″ x 12″

The black, keyline illustration is the screen printed layer, and the rest was hand colored with water colors. I am playing around with a few color options by going through a few iterations of this on bristol paper. Eventually I will print and paint a final version on some finer art paper.

Bird Illustrations

These are some illustrations I created for a tattoo design. The first one is a pencil sketch, followed by a pentel brush illustration, then a micron pen illustration, and finally micron and watercolor illustration.

Chronicle Article

“No Trespassing” signs and yellow barrier tape have gone up around the multicolored abandoned condo project at 11th and Baylor streets. Officially, the site is known as the Local to Global Outdoor Gallery Project, organized and curated by the HOPE campaign, a local nonprofit, with support from the property’s owners, Dick Clark Architecture and Castle Hill Partners. Until last Tuesday, however, the walls just west of Lamar were better known unofficially as a great place for artists to paste or paint to their heart’s content, rules be damned. It’s this clashing – aesthetically, artistically and spatially – that has led to the clampdown along Baylor Street and has revealed a larger change in Austin’s accepted aesthetic citywide.

End of the Road for Baylor Street Art Wall? (The Austin Chronicle)

Wall Space

Since I have a printmaking background and access to equipment, I decided to approach this project in a familiar form.

Silk Screen with Burned Images

I begun by screen printing repeatable patterns onto 19″ x 25″ white paper. The actual graphic measures 17″ x 23″, so the paper will need to be trimmed by an inch all the way around so the patterns bleed off the edge of the paper. The result is seamless tiles. This paper should also be light and thin enough to paste up. Below are some shots of the actual screen prints. Some are 2 colors and some only one.

Paper Stack

Actual images of the screenprints.

Paper Patterns

Aside from the patterns, I created this 4 foot by 6 foot portrait of a woman to adorn the right side of the mural. The process for creating her began as a small hand drawing, which I scanned and altered in Illustrator. I printed the black and white graphic out on a laser jet in four, 2 foot by 3 foot sections, and then hand painted each section to give it some color.

Process

Painting Patterns

The pasting part of the project took about 12 hours spread across 6 days. That does not including the preparation time for creating the materials used. Below are the pictures of the final work.

Day 2 Progress

HOPE Campaign Mural

Day 06

About the HOPE Campaign

The HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) Campaign a project of HOPE Events Inc. an energy conscious 501(c)3 non-profit focused on involving artists and their contributions in campaigns, programs and events to support existing social projects that promote education and peace around the world.

Un grito por la igualdad

Day 05