PRINTMAKING 2023

Individual Prints

Here's some prints I did that don't have a matching theme with others I've made this year!

A black blockprint on red cloth with a shrimp and the words 'Shrimps Is Bugs' around it.
I couldn't get enough of shrimps is bugs so here's a print too :)
A sketch in a sketchbook and the sketch transferred onto a pink rubber block next to it.
The original sketch and the sketch transferred to the block before I carved it.
A black blockprint on red cloth with a teabag showing two chamomile flowers and a tag connected with a long curving string that has three Zs printed on it.
I've been drying chamomile that grows in my front yard and I really love how the flowers look. They're really pretty and bright right after a rainstorm. This was also a fun design to practice with and work on some smaller details.
A sketch in a sketchbook and the sketch transferred onto a pink rubber block next to it.
The original sketch and the sketch transferred to the block before I carved it, plus an exploration sketch and some thumbnails before I figured out how to orient the tag.
Multiple prints of the chamomile tea and shrimps is bugs prints on the back of a red tank top resting on some grass.
We had some ink left over from printing the CDs in the next column, so I did a bunch of prints of my little blocks on some scrap cloth. It's paper ink, so I can't ever ever wash this cloth lol, but I got to practice stamping these down and the prints turned out pretty decently!!

Rotten Reputation Album Covers

I got to design an album cover!! This was for a limited run of tour CDs for local riot grrl punk band Rotten Reputation :) I got to print these with my girlfriend and I think they turned out really sick!!

Block prints in black ink on brown cardstock of a curling foliage and snake design that reads 'Rotten Reputation' in bubble letters.
Here's a photo from the first run of prints!
Block prints in black ink on a brown paper bag and scrap of jeans fabric of a variety of prints, including the rotten reputation album, chamomile tea bag, and shrimps is bugs.
Test prints from the night we printed the CDs and I made some other blocks :3

Legend of Zelda Prints

I really like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom!! Here's some art inspired by those games :)

Block prints in black ink on recycled homemade paper of various items inspired by the Switch Legend of Zelda games. Clockwise from left around the priunt are rubber stamps depicting a chu-chu jelly, a rupee, a lizdalfos tail, a hylian shroom, a silent princess flower, a fairy, and a potion bottle.
All of the small item stamps I've carved so far as of the end of August!
Block prints of several of the previous Zelda items, including rupees, fairies, the potion bottle, a mushroom, and a chu-chu jelly, as well as the Sheikah eye on both sticker paper and recycled paper.
A print and sticker test hanging up to dry in my room.
Block prints of several of the previous Zelda items, including chu-chu jellies, liazdalfos tails, flowers, and bottles on recycled paper.
More print tests drying.
Block prints of Link from the Legend of Zelda series sitting by a fire roasting a fish. The night sky shows the moon, stars, and Hyrule Castle floating as it does in Tears of the Kingdom. The art is printed such that it can be folded so the large print is the front of a card, and the back shows a silent princess flower.
A test for how I'd like to print some cards with this print of Link titled "Wish You Were Here." He's in Hyrule Field cooking dinner in the early parts of the game.
Block prints of all of the previously pictured items on sticker paper, colored in.
All of the stickers I printed for tests colored in! I used Prismacolor markers after the block printing ink had thoroughly dried. Check out close-ups of the rupee, lizdalfos tail, hylian shroom, silent princess, fairy, and potion bottle stickers.