#01:2004 - Caution! Robots (sold)
Linocut printed on metal sign - ©2004
7 x 10 inches (sold)
Continuing the work I started printing on non-traditional print materials. I am currently working on 3 series. This series is printed on metal signs that I have (legally) collected. Boeing Surplus is a great source for this sort of thing. If you have never been there - it's worth a trip if you are in the area.
Metal signs make a great surface to print on, and as a bonus - they are already printed with two more colors.
#02:2004 - Caution! Fish (sold)
Linocut printed on metal sign - ©2004
10 x 7 inches
#05:2004 - Smiling Faces (sold)
Linocut printed on metal sign - ©2004
10 x 7 inches
I carved two plates for the faces, one that is a big grid of dots, and one that is a big matching grid of faces. It was fun exploring a really basic face and seeing what kind of emotion I could get into them in a very simple way.
#c01:2004 - Smiling Face
Linocut on Clipboard - ©2004
12 x 9 inches
I was out looking for a few basic office supplies when I came across the clipboard aisle. I realized that a clipboard is really in fact a nice simple frame. This is the first of what I expect to be an expanding series. I will mount paper prints on them as well as print directly to them.
#u01:2004 - Smiling Faces Uke (sold)
Linocut on Soprano Ukulele - ©2004
approx 21 x 6.5 inches
I found most of my ukuleles on ebay in various states of repair from pretty trashed (Five Dollar Uke, to new 'student grade' (Flourish Uke). I would definitely say these are prints first and instruments second - but hey, where else can you get a reasonably priced print that you can also strum a tune on?
#u02:2004 - Flourish Uke
(sold)
Linocut on Soprano Ukulele - ©2004
approx 21 x 6.5 inches
Pineapple Uke (Test print for Flourish Uke)
Linocut on paper - ©2004
XX x XX inches
#u03:2004 - Five Dollar Uke (sold)
Linocut on Soprano Ukulele - ©2004
approx 21 x 6.5 inches
Ukuleles and other selected artworks are currently on display at Culinary Communion (not on the website, but in the acutal space) in West Seattle.
You can probably guess I am having fun with the work I am currently doing. I definitely am. I think the further I take my printmaking from the traditional, the more I am finding my feet in the process. I hope you enjoy these prints. Please do not hesitate to send me your thoughts.
--Scott.
Patti's Circles
Linocut - ©2004
edition of 5
Artist Patti Bowman has been bringing some really cool little paintings of nested circles to our montly 14.15.art crit-group meetings amongst the other cool painting she brings in. I decided to do a circle myself after Patti's but with a far more garish fruit-loops color scheme.
See more of Patti's work at her website: gotoartists.com
Robot Rezerve, Dollar Bill
Linocut - ©2004
Approximate size of a US $1 bill, not printed on back side.
So, I went searching for a mail-art project to do - and stumbled across something else that looked fun. A call for currency art. Seemed up my alley, since I already use images from money in my prints, I figured why not make up my own... ( Call for: currency art ) Make 10 'bills' and get 10 back from 10 other artists. Cool. So I did an edition of 14 robot themed 'bills' and sent off 1-10.
Then I realized it was too much fun printing these to stop now, so I am continuing to print them, but varying the colors in each batch I do. Just like the government, each has a unique serial number, which in my case is the Year followed by a 3 digit number and my initials. (I have stopped printing these now - but who knows - may again in the future. (paypal button removed)
Linocut - ©2004
Approximate size of a US $1 bill, not printed on back side.
Interested in money art? Do a search... My favorite money artist (so far) is Boggs. Though I do find US currency is pretty boring, even with the addition of color. It really could use more robots, and fruit-loopy colors in a bold way. It would be good for the economy, as it would of course be more fun to spend.