Haven't been around lately... I've been taking a bit of a break from t-shirt design to work on some more traditional artwork. Just wanted to post some of the things I've been working on. These are all linocuts that I hand carved and printed. The two color designs consisted of 2 separate hand carved blocks for each color. Hope ya can dig! <img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.99043980.jpg"> <img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.99044052.jpg"> <img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.97708777.jpg"> <img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.97708858.jpg"> <img src="http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.95522751.jpg"> <img src="http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.95523102.jpg"> <img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.94169028.jpg"> 2009-10-31T15:31:30-04:00 16 2009-10-29T15:27:17-04:00 true 0 93581 false false 3775 4725 1 2009-11-21T15:04:20-05:00 300 this is beautiful 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:30:21-04:00 3045811 6950 2009-10-29T15:30:21-04:00 those look great man!! man linocuts and woodcuts are nice.... i really want to give it a go again... ive done some etching in my day... not much but it was fun.. <img src="http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs23/f/2007/343/c/8/Beak_Man_Etching_by_monkeyassslapper.jpg" /> which pretty much looks like a pen drawing haha... ever do any other type of printing like solar plates or etching? 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:30:27-04:00 3045831 2870 2009-10-29T15:30:27-04:00 wow great work man! 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:31:00-04:00 3045851 10233 2009-10-29T15:31:00-04:00 <blockquote><cite>Killer Napkins said:</cite> those look great man!! man linocuts and woodcuts are nice.... i really want to give it a go again... ive done some etching in my day... not much but it was fun.. <img src="http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs23/f/2007/343/c/8/Beak_Man_Etching_by_monkeyassslapper.jpg" /> which pretty much looks like a pen drawing haha... ever do any other type of printing like solar plates or etching?</blockquote> awesome man! I haven't done any etching or anything else at this point. I really want to get into letterpress printing but the equipment is really really costly. I'm looking around on ebay to see if I can just start collecting letterpress fonts and just start small. So is etching reproducible? I'd don't know much about it.. is it like a plate that you could use for printing posters and what not? 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:34:21-04:00 3045911 4725 2009-10-29T15:34:21-04:00 Those are amazing Castle! I remember doing this in high school and mine were terrible, haha. 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:40:46-04:00 3046031 8948 2009-10-29T15:40:46-04:00 well you can reuse it as man tiems as you want.. i think eventually it gets worn down... you use oil based inks and one of those giant roll presses.. but its cool cuz you can leave residual ink on your copper etching plate to get different effects... and you can do multiple colors too with multiple plates... registration is a bitch because you are basically eyeballing it unless you use some sort of measurement marks on like a piece of mylar on the press... oil inks are a mess though... its too much work for me.. like this is another one with differnt wiping of the ink.. <img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/343/a/b/beak_man_etch2_by_monkeyassslapper.jpg" /> its messy because you got to wipe enough ink into your plate to get inside the grooves where the acid ate away the copper, but then you got to wipe loads off with like cheese cloth type stuff... I took one printing making class in my college... i didnt do much with it after that.. also its hard to etch thick lines because when you put the ink in it.. you usually wind up wiping the ink out of the thicker lines... there are tons of different things youc an do with traditional printing though.. combinging different things, but not practical at making huge runs unless you plan on spending loads of time 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:41:52-04:00 3046061 2870 2009-10-29T15:44:36-04:00 <img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.94169028.jpg" /> <img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.97708777.jpg" /> these are very nice... what made you decided to do some traditional work? 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:52:08-04:00 3046201 66441 2009-10-29T15:52:08-04:00 awesome stuff. 93581 Post 2009-10-29T15:57:39-04:00 3046251 35211 2009-10-29T15:57:39-04:00 those are awesome dude id love to see what the blocks look like, do you have any process shots? 93581 Post 2009-10-29T16:03:07-04:00 3046371 1146 2009-10-29T16:03:07-04:00 <blockquote><cite>mistahfred said:</cite> awesome stuff.</blockquote> <blockquote><cite>8-bit ZOMBIE said:</cite> Those are amazing Castle! I remember doing this in high school and mine were terrible, haha.</blockquote> <blockquote><cite>jordanandree said:</cite> this is beautiful</blockquote> <blockquote><cite>mrdavenport said:</cite> wow great work man!</blockquote> Thanks guys! I never actually did this in school. I got more of a commercial Art degree and everything was computer based. <blockquote><cite>Designkins said:</cite> <img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.94169028.jpg" /> <img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.97708777.jpg" /> these are very nice... what made you decided to do some traditional work?</blockquote> I just love the way the linocut stuff looks and I wanted to do something that was reproducable. I started working with screen printing but it just takes up so much room that my house wasn't a greatest place to do it. <blockquote><cite>derekdeal said:</cite> those are awesome dude id love to see what the blocks look like, do you have any process shots?</blockquote> Thanks man, I need to do more of a tutorial kinda thing but here are some process pics. These are pretty much in the order of the process. <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/drawingPaper.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/transferDrawing.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/firstBlockWeb.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/firstColorInkedBlockWeb.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/firstColorLiftWeb.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/firstColorFinishedWeb.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/2ndBlockWeb.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/blackInkLift.jpg"> <img src="http://nashvillemafia.com/linocuts/finishedPrintsWeb.jpg"> Thanks again all! 93581 Post 2009-10-29T16:46:53-04:00 3047221 4725 2009-10-29T16:51:12-04:00 Derrick I'm always so impressed with your stuff man. It's really refreshing to see a true artist like yourself expand their world and try different things (and knocking it out of the park!) 93581 Post 2009-10-29T17:18:28-04:00 3047751 11937 2009-10-29T17:18:28-04:00 <blockquote><cite>Killer Napkins said:</cite> well you can reuse it as man tiems as you want.. i think eventually it gets worn down... you use oil based inks and one of those giant roll presses.. but its cool cuz you can leave residual ink on your copper etching plate to get different effects... and you can do multiple colors too with multiple plates... registration is a bitch because you are basically eyeballing it unless you use some sort of measurement marks on like a piece of mylar on the press... oil inks are a mess though... its too much work for me.. like this is another one with differnt wiping of the ink.. <img src="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/343/a/b/beak_man_etch2_by_monkeyassslapper.jpg" /> its messy because you got to wipe enough ink into your plate to get inside the grooves where the acid ate away the copper, but then you got to wipe loads off with like cheese cloth type stuff... I took one printing making class in my college... i didnt do much with it after that.. also its hard to etch thick lines because when you put the ink in it.. you usually wind up wiping the ink out of the thicker lines... there are tons of different things youc an do with traditional printing though.. combinging different things, but not practical at making huge runs unless you plan on spending loads of time</blockquote> ok yeah, I think this is one of the methods old school poster shops print custom graphics. We have an old printshop in Nashville called Hatch show print which is an awesome little place to visit... they do all their printing using those old techniques. <blockquote><cite>ShirtFight.com said:</cite> Derrick I'm always so impressed with your stuff man. It's really refreshing to see a true artist like yourself expand their world and try different things (and knocking it out of the park!)</blockquote> thanks a bunch Jud! Now if I can just get the hang of screenprinting, my life would be complete;0) 93581 Post 2009-10-29T17:28:21-04:00 3048021 4725 2009-10-29T17:28:21-04:00 Wow these are awsome... I feel inspired... 93581 Post 2009-10-29T17:31:10-04:00 3048081 2418 2009-10-29T17:31:10-04:00 you are good 93581 Post 2009-10-31T04:33:22-04:00 3067261 66441 2009-10-31T04:33:22-04:00 i took a printmaking class in school and loved doing wood block prints. takes forever but theres something about the process i really enjoy. yours are looking great i was also really heavily into dore and rockwell kent 93581 Post 2009-10-31T13:15:10-04:00 3071321 1271 2009-10-31T13:15:56-04:00 just bought a few. awesome job D. 93581 Post 2009-10-31T15:31:30-04:00 3073061 3775 2009-10-31T15:31:30-04:00