‘Strike-Slip‘ closing reception at Faultline Artspace in Oakland, April 20th 4-7pm. Screen prints by David Polka, Jon Carling, Joshua Mays, and Ryan McJunkin. New work by ESK Evan Wilson, Marcos LaFarga, Alan Grizzell, Nathaniel McKenna, and Mario Navasero.
'Strike-Slip' Closing reception April 20th 4-7pm
'Strike-Slip' at Faultline Artspace in Oakland
This is a little group show and print release I am putting on in my space in Oakland March 16th, 4-8pm at Faultline Artspace. We have several new prints by Oakland artists David Polka, Jon Carling, Joshua Mays, and Marcos LaFarga. I’ll have my studio open and will have stacks of my own prints and drawings to sell, 20-50% off regular prices.
Joshua Mays screen print
I printed these up for my buddy Joshua Mays. This was a test print and it is unsigned at the moment. It is for a raffle today at 17th and Peralta for a neighborhood cleanup. Joshua just finished a mural with David Polka and Santos Shelton
The hands are my favorite
This is a sketch from the first life drawing session of 2013 at Faultline. I’m looking forward to doing an insane amount of figure drawing this year. We have a nice little drawing room at our studios in Oakland where we host drop-in figure drawing sessions.
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Charcoal pencil on Stonehenge paper
We’ve been doing figure drawing on Saturdays and it’s been a little chaotic. So we switched it to Tuesday mornings 10-2. It’s an open uninstructed life drawing session so feel free to stop by. There is more information including the model schedule, directions, and fee information on the Life Drawing page of the Faultline website. Faultline is located on High Street and the 880 in Oakland CA.
Our building High Street Lofts had an open house with some of the designers and artists. It was the first time doing it so it was a bit of a learning experience. Overall it was a big success. Chris Granillo and Oree came out and hung out with their prints for most of the day. I moved 14 tons of beer for 10 hours the previous day and my back didn’t let me set up the studios as nicely as I would have liked, but it was fun and the next one will be even better.
Here’s a few pics of my drawings from Saturday. I’ve been drawing a little larger on the 5 and 10 minute poses and standing a little closer so I can see a little more. I’m trying to vary my line width as much as possible and simplify my initial sketch, which is most visible in the first drawing of this gallery. I’ve been trying not to sketch at all and go straight into the darker line drawing, but it’s difficult to keep the proportions under control without laying a simple plan first.
I printed these guys up this morning.These are the most colorful prints I have done in this style so far. I mix the ink on the screen and I’ve just been using one stencil. It’s been a long quest of mine to find a way to print one stencil and have it be unique and interesting to both make and to look at. This skeleton series has been really fun to print so far and I’ve been dropping some liquid inks on the screen to bleed out a little in select spots which is something new for me. I’ll have these and a bunch of my other brand new skeletons at the Sound Room at 2157 Broadway and 22nd Street for First Friday tomorrow in Oakland.
Carolina Parakeet
My homemade screen printing press
Busted a few of these little prototypes out to take to yesterday’s Printmaker’s Picnic in Oakland yesterday. I was able to print a couple of runs of little cards with my website urls on the back, but cleaning turned out to be tricky without water. I used damp paper towels, which did the trick, but I ran out and had to reuse them, which was messy. We’re actually going to make a big stack of these for Faultline‘s upcoming screen print workshop series.
These little setups are going to be ideal for the beginner workshops, since they are inexpensive to produce and are just big enough to learn some basic stencil making techniques. Big metal screens are really nice to work on, but are expensive and use more ink, meaning bigger fees and bigger mess.
