The Return of the Artist

After a long, activity filled absence, I'm posting this so as to give everyone a glimpse of what I've been up to (the parts I'll admit to anyway).

I set out my printing supplies, do a few test runs and realize my stupid squeegee is too small for the image I'm trying to print. I run down to my local art supply store, and while they have decent prices on the items they carry (and they're local, so I like to support them), they don't have the squeegee I'm looking for. So, I hop back in my car and drive to University Art, which is minutes away from closing by the time I get there (5:30 pm? really?) and I find a really nice, hard squeegee that'll do just fine. I pay for my new squeegee, get back in the car, realize I need gas, remember that I've left my ink uncovered back at home (letting it slowly dry into a hardened mess, meaning I'll have to mix more paint dammit); I get gas, drive back home and find everything as I'd left it - ink, small, old squeegee and all. The ink hadn't dried very much, thankfully, so I mix a bit of water in it to loosen it up, get all my printing things lined up to do a test pull, do the pull and am pleased with the result on paper (which is almost too small for the image, but that's a minor point).

And now I have five more shirts to sell. Today is a good day.

Now I just have to find my ink roller so that I can print some cat shirts.

I wish I could do this full time. It's so fun!

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In other news, I've started an Etsy store in which I'll be selling t-shirts, digital prints, and whatever else I feel like making. I've got a few items up, so check it out!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/theartfulscientist

Body Parts

Mostly what we've been drawing in my portrait drawing class has been parts of the face. I assume that we're going to eventually put it all together, so I'm not too concerned about it. I think I've progressed a bit since my first work. I've also discovered that mechanical pencils > woodless graphite. But I'm still thinking about that one. I don't know if it's the paper that I'm using, or the way I draw. My technique could be wonky. But my technique works well enough with my mechanical pencil, so I'm going to stick with it for now.

Now for pictures.

Latest Craze

I think I've discovered a new and exciting way to waste both my time and my money: spray-painting t-shirts. It's quick, easy, and fairly inexpensive. I mean, a can of spray paint costs like $5. And t-shirts are dirt cheap.

I'm pretty sure I have way too many t-shirts as it is. Guess what everyone is getting for their birthday/Christmas/gift-giving event? Yup. I try to keep it original.




I made this shirt in my garment printing class. I'm very much in love with it. Ok, so there's some spattering on the right shoulder because I forgot to protect the rest of the shirt from the spray paint. But it's Darwin! On a t-shirt! I'm very happy about this development.

Introducing: squidpanda

This came from over-caffination and boredom at work. Well, I waited until I got home before I started on it, but the concept (or random idea, really) came to me at work.

Exercises

I drew these for my Art 4A and 4E classes.

Flier

Revised the poster I made for Open Studios. Ok, "completely redid" would be a better way to put it. It's more or less done, I just have to finish the "contact" info part. And probably tweak one or two things.

Flier

I made this for my art club, the Foothill Art Society. Made with Adobe Illustrator, of course. Nothing fancy, either, since it's for a one-time event.

I'm going to have more artwork to show from last quarter soon, I just haven't been able to get to campus to use the scanner. And I've been struggling with computer drama, as well. But that's more or less all over now.