A Printmaker's Findings

This is dedicated to everyone who told me screenprinting is for t-shirts..

lithoshop:

Richard Estes. Kentucky Fried Chicken, 2007. Screen-print with 110 colors, Image: 24” x 16”

Just when you were telling your friends last night at 2 AM that you were a really good screen-printer.

Nitric acid.. the other white meat.

lithoshop:

A very strong etch.

This seriously outlines every single print shop woe I have ever experienced:

lithoshop:

This is the Printmaker when he/she experiences the following: a stone breaks, buys brittle rubylith, a screen fills in, a plate gets accidentally left in the acid for three days, cuts too much away from their block, you realize you should work downtown taking fingerprints from criminals because that is what your prints look like anyway,  woodblock is warped, copper gets scratched, stone fills in, screen rips, cuts finger with gouge, film has banning, underexposes, overexposes, nice round scratches on your perfectly grained stone,  beer runs out, holes stretch on paper, some douche prints on the felts, someone hides the last scoop of photo-emulsion,  type gets slammed on the tympan, ink bronzes when dry, yellow ink turns green on copper, some dick uses cheesecloth as tarlatan, technician buys the cheap ass tint base that is yellower than benz, some eco-friendly person tries to tell them that water based inks are equal to oil, someone has hidden the opaque white….again, someone forgot to clean the roller (and slab, and ink knives, and edge of table, and the fan, and the can of ink they were using, and their fucking hands which have left fingerprints all over the press, prints, drying rack, water fountain, doorknob, acid bottles, cheesecloth, stone lift, and everything else they happened to touch), someone didn’t clean the emulsion tray, someone didn’t put the type back in the shelves, it takes four days to etch a plate because of weak mordant, there is more ink on your face than on paper, why do my prints suck-ass, someone used your paper you had soaking for two hours, relief block filled in because the ink was too soupy, relief block printed gray because you didn’t have enough ink on it, beveling……what’s that?, the squeegee is dull, your registration got fucked somehow, over packed cylinder, ink smudges out from the bottom of your plate because you didn’t think to clean the back of it before putting it on the press (you are the same person who printed on the felts), someone used the yellow tarlatan for blue ink, fuck me, is she really going out with him, ink bleeding like a stuck pig, someone forgot to clean the sides of the roller, you realize that your emulsion was still wet when you exposed your screen (or better yet, knew it was wet but were in a hurry and didn’t give a flying fuck about anyone else…..dickhead), rollers are hard as a rock, the nitrile glove box is empty (but then you remembered you don’t wear them anyway, do you?), when your friend tells you he/she has made a digital print and now they are a printmaker, what’s ventilation, you want to use the drying rack but someone has had their prints in there for over a month, your print has water streaks all over it, your ink is dry on that screen dummy, someone has left more grease on the bottom of the tympan then the top, you want to use the ink but it feels as if someone super-glued the top to the can, the 80 grit is out so have fun using 100 for a hour, hand cleaner is empty…hello shitty pink liquid, water bowls are black with ink, not a clean sponge within a mile, you don’t know which is the mag, whiting or talc, more scratches on the exposure unit than last semester, is that letter press or braille,  where is the duck tape, who left this crumb here, why am I doing this?????????? Add on at your discretion.

Bahahahhahaaa

(Source: ktshy)

There are many bottles featuring birds on my shelf.. but this one is missing! WHY

printeresting:

Website dedicated to “remarkable graphic design from the world of beer.” (via Oh Beautiful Beer)

The story of my life

(Source: sirmitchell)

Dear friends and art-lovers alike!

Many of you have been enjoying my tales and twitpix of baby birds. As many of you know, I am blessed to work with wild birds for a living! It’s challenging, demanding, sometimes heartbreaking.. but also a lot of fun! I get the added bonus of helping our wild birds stay just that, wild and free! As you can imagine, this time of year, I’m investing a LOT of time into rearing babies into adulthood.

And well.. that’s been an issue. This year we have SO MANY babies, that it’s draining the funding.. for my paycheck. This in and of itself isn’t insulting, but my commute is 40 miles each way a day, and my gas tank is literally almost empty with $0 to invest back into it.

So, to LITERALLY keep me going to work, I’m coming to you. I am offering art at rock-bottom ridiculous prices. I am offering a drawing, just like my print here, for $10! Yup you heard me. Ten buck-a-roons. Details below:

Since this is, in the end, to help the birds, I am offering 5”x7” drawings of wild birds. You can either choose the bird, or I will pot-luck one for you. You can request a certain type of bird (i.e., raptor, song, shore, western North American, etc).. or not, it’s all up to you. Each will come with a conservation fact as to why that bird in is trouble, and how you can help it out just by living your life, day to day!

Chalk the price up to $15 and this little beauty will come framed! Shipping is included in both prices. I accept paypal, if you want to shoot for concealed cash or check that’s fine too.. but it’s not my fault if the postal service eats it :)

Interested? Email me at BouncingGecko AT gmail.com

Thank you!!! <3