An attempt at compiling my art work

Joel is insisting we start blogging our artwork for others to see, which I agree completely. However, due to my sporatic nature I may not keep up as well as I should, but its worth a shot. For starters, lets go with the prints I've been working on this semester.



This is the print I am the happiest with so far and I'm in the process of recreating a better one. I just love the sad robot. I'm thinking of titling it something like "Defunction" or "Exfunction" or as my roommate suggested "BOOOooooop..." which I feel doesn't quite fit the tone, but he liked it.
Anyways, I work at a factory and after working there for a year I started drawing all these robots. They've kind of died away and have been replaced by octopi, as you can see, he is a dead and dying robot in the trash pit. I cant really come to say what it means exactly. Maybe I feel like less of a robot recently, I think there might be a bit of life left in this ones eyes though. Either way, I wanted to experiment in an etching with more line detail as well as color.













Anyways, other stuff I'm in the process of. This print is my work on just and unjust. It no longer looks like this because I aqua tinted it, however, I it is too dark in places now and I'm trying to scrub it. I'm not sure if I like this print and am currently too frustrated to work on it and I'm not a huge fan of it. so boo.













This one I am much more interested in continuing working on. It also influenced me on my current experiment. I tried working with different colors as well as subtraction with alcohol and dental floss. Hmm...this is a problem. So you dont get to see all octopi pictures yet because they are all coming up crooked. Which makes no sense since they were saved the other direction. This is why I don't blog. See. Its sideways, and I don't know why.


Anyways, I was inspired to make border-less octopi which I am currently cutting out of copper and ruining lots of jeweler's saw blades for. HOORAY! I'll let you know how that goes.

Ps. I find it weird that Blogger doesn't recognize octopi as a word. How strange.