Stop Line

Stop Line
15" x 11"
Wire with Metal Type and Graphite
Edition of 29

Another print I did in Rebecca Chamlee's Advanced Letterpress class. For this one, I wrote down a few things I saw happen during my morning busrides to school. It was really interesting messing around with wire as a printing material. I really liked that it was a material that could be easily manipulated but making sit still and have a light impression on the paper was not my favorite thing.

The wire was used to represent the cables that run through the bus that people are supposed to pull on when they need to get the bus. And the hand at the end is supposed to be my hand pulling to stop. I'm kind of thinking that I would like to do more prints with the wire, I'm not sure, when I have time. I'm actually kind of busy this summer!

Another Name

Another Name
11" x 15"
Metal and Wood Type with Linoleum Block
Edition of 16

If you know me well enough, you know that I LOVE letterpress printing as much as painting. I've been dabbling in it since my Junior year at Otis, and I must say, I'm pretty great at it! This print in particular was done in my Advanced Letterpress course with the awesome Rebecca Chamlee, and it's my description of my family.

I wrote a little thing about how certain words in our household are terms of endearment for us, but may be insulting to others. Then I highlighted some of those words with Wood Type while I just used stymie (Metal Type) for the rest of the verse. It was sort of a pain printing (mo' run throughs = mo' problems), but it was worth it! I really hope to get more chances to use the letterpress in my work, it's a medium that isn't used enough, but I would like to show people that it's not just for wedding invitations.

Metro Story: A Connection (FINALLY)

Metro Story : A Connection

60" x 22"
Ink, Watercolor, Housepaint

I finally did it!! I graduated from college as well as finally updating my blog! Sorry it's been a while, I pretty much devoted all of my time to this thing, as well as finishing my other classes, which I must say I did better than I thought I would do.

The ultimate homegirl, I love you!!

Other awesome people!!

Painting the bus onto the wall was first time in a while I really felt I was outside of my comfort zone, just because it really felt like I was installing something, and just handing off a frame with my work in it to a gallery owner. But I'm really happy with the way it turned out, I think I would definitely do something like that again in the future.

I would really like to continue with this idea of a bus story, it was originally was going to be 3 paintings, but my eyes were way bigger than my stomach this semester!! But still, I want to continue this as a series! If I don't have the wall space, I'll probably digitize them like I did in the smaller image above! All in all, the ultimate lesson I learned from this piece, as well as this semester is that I need to pace myself more, way more! I'm just glad it turned out well in the end.

I'm so to my family and friends of course! I really couldn't have survived these 4 years without them, I'm so serious, I think I would've been dead without these people! Even if they made me chuckle a little, I was thankful they were there to make me smile! <3

More updates on other projects soon!!