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That is my tool box.

on the sides it has two little slips of paper one says "you are a good person" the other says "you are a fucking tool" the bottom has one of my prints that says "FUCK" printed on brown paper.

inside is: a strop, my speedball carving tool, a couple of X-acto knives, what's left of the fancy carving set  I bought when I realized I was going to be doing this for my BFA (note to the world: never loan out your tools, even if you think not loaning out your tools makes you look like an asshole, nobody notices your name carved in the handles and they will not give them back) other things: my engraving twist which is unsurprisingly nice for working up scratch board, my scratch board tool, a lump of eraser, some utility knife blades, some mechanical pencils, some mechanical pencil lead, an eraser and an Altoids Small's tin where I keep my tool-bits. (I like to think of it as the Altoid's sharps tin) the box interior is also decorated with a couple of these silly librarian-themed temporary tattoos.

I felt like showing some progress pictures today of something simple. I'm trying to get back into the swing of making things and what better opportunity for that than a three day weekend?

I am making several more of these simple herbaceous prints to be ready for my show at Dandelion Botanicals in April. it always pays to have a range of prices available, somebody who won't drop $200 on a piece might still want something for $20.

alright so these are all the blocks I just printed this afternoon shown with a good example of the prints I made from them.

valentine's day Gunnels I intend on coloring. they will be pretty glorious, not that they aren't already

the rose was originally a study but I liked it and I think I still do.  it's pretty basic but it's easy to get bogged down trying to work small and I have to keep it iconic to make it work.

next after that is a trillium. same deal different flower.

after that, queen of pomegranates. her face looks like it was mde by De Kooning and the idea was kind of stupid so these are probably going to become mixed media. but the dog turned out rather well so I'm happy.

after that is slugs posed in a classic crowned ouroboros. which I happen to love, fits very well into my general theme of taking classic mythological and alchemical symbolism and making it out of things native and familiar to me.

ta- fucking dah.

Jack-elope

linoleum block relief print, black ink on white. edition of 12.

did you know that male and female rabbits are called Bucks and Does?

another fun fact: any piece of dream-like visual symbolism you detect in my art that you cannot figure out is most definitely a visual pun, probably a horrible one. this is because my actual dreams also are full of horrible puns. I would say that my interior landscape is not quite as bad as Xanth, but it's pretty close.

less panty jokes anyways. not that that's a plus necessarily.

Pisces, edition of 16

I finally carved this super cool clear linoleum sample that Nick gave me and printed on one sheet of BFK which I ripped into 16 bits. (which would be funnier if this was pixel art, but alas)

Damn I love the clear linoleum so much. it is beautymus.

image is drawn after these little soy sauce bottles I have. Done to do something silly. Start to finish a couple of hours out of today put to good use.

Chanterelle Mushrooms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanterelleit's a spoon print. I forgot to put these up on here earlier, so it's a little old.

First time I really like my own art.

Experimenting with linolcuts... (will be for Eurofurence, hopefully) I think I need a different color. Still not satisfied with it. I have to improve...