WUUF! rrrrrrrUF!

Above is a series of prints I did with the letter press at Willem de Kooning Academie. I raised pieces that are used as spaces between letters and words as the fence and then hand pressed the dog sounds.

Hide and Seek

Another collage I did while in Holland of children playing hide and go seek.

Chickens

Assigned to me while I was studying at Willem de kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The assignment was to come up with an animation about anything, do whatever you want, just show 5-7 illustrations of the story board. I was getting very bored at this point at that school and decided to do some cut paper collages whether the teacher liked it or not. To my relief he did. Anyway here they are. Not exactly my favorite series of collages but here are the beginning collages.

so sad.

DVD cover

This is the final of one of my first assignments here in Rotterdam. We had to design a DVD cover for this movie which was basically this film of a Rue Goldberg like machine that was in this large warehouse and was created by two Swiss artists, Peter Fischili and David Weiss. It felt like this long neverending line of action and reaction with different materials such as gasoline, soap, tires, wood, all sorts of things. I was thinking about changing the title back to the German title. Im not sure yet.

Dutch Letters

The first eight weeks that I will be studying at WdKA I am allowed to take a few workshops and one of them is with the Dutch Letter Press. Its the old fashioned way of printing type. It's fabulous because I can do pretty much whatever I want.
Above are the only two good ones that came out of my first series of prints. Originally I wanted them all to be like the bottom one, which the NO was done by doing what is called blind printing but for some reason the first NO started move towards the left. My teacher and I could not figure it out so we decided to stamp the NO with some white paint. I am really proud of both of them and I am excited to work more with this way of printing.

skadoodles!

Some sketches I did last semester when I should have been working on character development, but I really was not in the mood.