March 28, 2018

Drawn at the Art Junction in El Paso:

Earlier that day, Manuel Guerra and I gave a talk at the Rubin Center in UTEP -- Prints: Breaking Out of the Time Zone:

Manuel Guerra

talking about printmaking 

at the Rubin Center in UTEP

I bought this box of Blackwing pencils

at the El Paso Museum of Art

March 27, 2018

Drawn in the Argos Gallery of Santa Fe:

Morning:

Afternoon:

March 26, 2018

Drawn at Gary's house in Tijeras, New Mexico:

March 24, 2018

Drawn in the Argos Gallery of Santa Fe:

Colored with PaintsChainer

Colored with PaintsChainer

I drew on this vellum paper for ink jet printers with an Ebony pencil.  Hopefully this will burn into a silk screen, so that I can make a serigraph of this drawing.

OCE 864020

20# vellum

24" x 150'

I want to convert this drawing into a serigraph and participate in the Weiner Welcome in Houston on April 21st, before their "It Came from the Bayou" print fair, on Sunday, April 22nd.

I'm getting it done at Proper Printshop in El Paso:

Alan, the co-owner of Proper Printshop ,

pulling a test print on March 31st, 2018

First test on brown wrapping paper

(I like the color)

We made several quick prints on newsprint,

which will help to make screens for the colors

Test print on the final good paper

Second screen.  I placed a sheet of OCE vellum on the test print above (of the key color), and outlined certain shapes, then filled them in (April 2nd).  The dark areas will be a different color (probably a dirty dark green) in the final print.

Ready to burn a second screen,

with the vellum above

Alan pulling the test print of green,

April 3rd

Dark green test print

One more screen to burn

Taped rectangle,

for underlying red color

Production begins,

April 5th

Production continues,

April 6th

Tri Color, so far

"Aren't You Glad This Print Is Not By You"

Fuzzy final print, but we shifted and double printed the black key color

to give it a noisier feel

Thank you Proper Printshop,

for indulging me, 

and letting me print more punk than proper,

fuzzy edges and all

The print has already been Fed-Exed to Houston, for the Wiener Welcome on April 21st, right before the  "It Came from the Bayou" print extravaganza.

My print may, or may not, get accepted for the

"Weiner Welcome" in Houston on April 21st

My print shown at the Wiener Welcome 

in Houston

And I collected a lot of nice prints at the 7th annual "It Came from the Bayou" print fair the next day.