I printed two of three colors of a new print inspired by the Bemidji Dragon Boat Festival last night. I ran out of films so the third will have to wait until I get them in the mail early this week. The main print is on top, then I used the little extra space on the parent sheet to so another small print based on some doodles. More later.
It might be a little hard to make out, but those are washers and wire nails. Screen is burning…
-Nate
Ya, that didn’t work. When I went to wash out the screen the burned image just fell apart. Trial and error is the name of the game this week I guess. There was too much space between the screen and the glass.
Between doing a bunch of things around the house, including trying to get our house to sell, I finally got these two finished, clear coated, and ready to hang.
I’ve been playing some NES games lately, some Zelda, Metroid, Super Mario Brothers (yes, I still have my original NES, but play them also on Homebrew) and the backgrounds of Super Mario 3 inspired these. I’d already kind of made something similar on my iPhone through Brushes, but I felt better with a brush in my hands than using my finger on a screen. Running across worlds in SMB3 there are tons of objects with eyes staring back at the player from the background, and this is my take on their “Blank Stare”.
Each are 9×12”, graphite and latex paint on raised wood panel.
I messed around with some woodworking this weekend and made this little bird house. It’s made of 1×1” squares of plywood I cut down from scrap I had in the garage. I painted each block one of 4 colors: red, black, gray, or white, glued together in slightly random pattern and then cut down to size for the walls of the house. My inspiration for the colors came from the controller for the NES and other gaming electronics of the early 80’s.
What do you think, should I make a few more of these? I made a mess of the garage with saw dust from making this one but it was fun to make!
Apparently the wood glue I used to make the panels for this house will not hold up to the elements, because I came outside this morning and the house was in pieces on the ground, and the glue had turned to mush from the rain last night. Arg.
I got started on the wood panel boxes I built earlier this week. The first pair of I’m tentatively calling “the hills have eyes”. Namco already got pissed that I created an art print that looks like pac-man, hopefully Nintendo doesn’t do the same; these remind me of the backgrounds from Super Mario. More to come.
