“You live long enough, you play all the parts” Taylor Mac

Things that inspire me: sitting at Dante’s having a colorful conversation about the prison system, finding out the guy was cellmates with the founder of a bread company who I had a creepy but homoerotic moment with at 2am at a bus stop whilst gifted bread. #syncronicity #inspiration #gaymoments

Blind gesture drawings of houseless neighbors smoking fentanyl this morning

Reminds me of the normal time when the makers of Jaffa Cakes had to prove to the European Union that their product was in fact cake and not a biscuit/cookie. So for court, they made a cake sized Jaffa cake to prove that it was a cake.

Nerd post: kinda disheartening seeing anime reactors pull “I’m sorry but gross” form of homophobia when reacting to some of “The Summer Hikaru Died” #hikaru #anime #netflix

I’m having too much fun

I’m having more fun with this than I should

Do what i do put in on the wall for a year to shame yourself as you procrastinate on it! Works every time have a painting of Ayer’s Rock I haven’t touched in years lol

It’s salvageable!

“No Go the Boogeyman” by @marinawarner.bsky.social

Love!

Manny being a good boy and letting dad procrastinate by being cute

That use of pink! ❤️

An example of

We’ve traded before. If ya want I can make a quick process sheet ( a print with its process notes on the print) and send it your way if you want? I was a sloppy printmaker in college so always got away with it if I submitted my “what the fuck did you do?!” Notes on the test print lol

An example of me testing out different pencils for transfer, endurance and bleed control. In this case straight up open acrylic paint. Since text is limited in here I usually just keep to talking about technique on Reddit if someone asks

And derwent inktense pencils etc. Control the bleed by varying the drying speed and viscosity of the medium and paint printed and will check the plate to see how it’s progressing. After a few layers At that point I focus on isolating the form through rough printing and then spray varnish it to hell

I don’t disturb the transfer too much. Dry then paint on top usually slow drying acrylics. Basic bitch so golden open acrylics. If I know I’m going in between layers with more pencils or charcoal, I use transparent gesso as a medium for grit. If that’s the case, I’ll apply watercolor pencil and

As though you were painting on glass. My process has been doing an initial transfer of an image of graphite/charcoal/pastel/conte print that layer and then build was layer with either more transfers. Because of the stability of the image on the plate. I roll up a layer of medium on plexiglass so

For printmaking: it sucks. As a monotype player it’s almost counterintuitive. Traditionally your printing the surface of a painted image in monotypes but the way the plate works, your printing the entire “skin”, so for traditional monotypes, it’s easier to approach it like a reduction print or

(In progress) mixed media on paper. After a day of archiving newspaper clippings, made a quick collage out of two monoprints and some acrylic skins from leftover palettes #blueskyart #mixedmedia #acrylic #monotype #collage #bored

Using old failed prints and acrylic pallet skins for a basic collage then walk the pup
#buleskyart #collage #mixedmedia #arcylic #gelliplate

Left the middle seam intact for aesthetic purposes

Photograph by Burhan Ozbilici. Funeral for Turkish fighters circa 2008. Patching up and restoring newspaper clippings. In this digital disposable age of images. Restoring a 17 year old image giving both the subject matter and the photographers work is humbling #photography #newyorktimes #Ozbilici

Practicing restoration on a print of “drama in the woods” by Karl Uchermann

(In progress) printed layer 3 now just gonna let it cure and do the rest by hand. Honestly the gelli plate sucks as a printmaking plate, but used in conjunction with other methods, it makes for a good “tool” in general #monoprint #pasteltransfer #gelliplate #blueskyart

(In progress) collage mixed media. Having Garcia Lorca yet again in my head #art #mixedmedia #collage #bull #blueskyart #lorca #garcialorca #lament

Docking around over weed and coffee

Omg lllllllloooooovvvveee ❤️