old comics, fresh inspiration

(Top) Fletcher Hanks' "Big Red McLane" under the pseudonym Chaz Netcher

(Bottom) Bob Kane's "Batman" from the chronicles of batman volume one, a new publication of all of the early batman tales in chronological order

revised/colorized

composition

serial seven

look closely, mortals. . .

part of an image for a letterpress/screen printing project underway

page six

DENIZENS OF DILAPIDATION PAGES 1-5 (in progress)

page 5, johnny ghastly solvent transfer

drawings from nyc trip

drawings done en route to nyc

forf page

colorized

here are the colors, its going to be printed on a buff paper, if i can find any in pittsburgh, also i took out the buildings, considering the majority of the physical mills are torn down.

Hot off the drawing board

page 3 of DENIZENS OF DILAPIDATION, i found out there is a scanner in my dad's office that works at 300 dpi, so ill be able to deliver a day by day of my output.

MILL print

digital image for a fictional poster inviting citizens of pittsburgh to walkthrough a steel mill. Text taken from non-fictional poster and re-designed with added illustration.
still trying to figure out if I want there to be color, probably 2 or 3 if any.

comics/comix

drawing of the week

capacitor print

possible 4color screen print (preliminary digital images) color separations done by hand then scanned in and noodled around with color

more scraps

one of many of the drawings being produced for a large format silk screen print

DRAWING of the weak

fortress of solitude

upper floor of my dad's plumbing shop

work space

ideas

Recently at the Resource

first scrap print of the (possible) series, 22"x 30"

Four color screen print, 15"x20"

fick proofs, intaglio studio

open studio's wall o' prints

first scrap print edition in the open studio

lithography studio

big screen printing room, fick on the wall

Intaglio/ Relief studio and front entrance of AIR, stefan in the mix

Stefan Hoffman is into everyday signs and symbols in displaced in different contexts

Bill Fick's work, i believes this is a two color screen print with an etched layer on top.

first scrap print

here is the digital file for the first screen print of the scrap prints. i really like how these trash objects now have a figurative relationship. hopefully i can continue that idea within this series and also possibly stumble onto something new after more drawings are done, scanned and noodled around with. the print will be done on 22x30 paper with black ink

drawing on history

this is a drawing about steel mills and my personal and family histories, the portrait is of john munhall, the founder of munhall, the town my dad grew up in in pittsburgh's steel valley. I am trying to make drawings as final pieces instead of only being objects utilized in preparation. This is also acting as a rough compositional outline for a painting i have just begin. pictures of that after more progression.

knot diagram

an image I found in my grandfather's WWII navy training manual. good inspiration for ways to set up compositions for my scrap prints.

a semester of prints

sketch

untitled print, aquatint etching for class suite

print for southern graphics council's "mind the gap" portfolio exchange,
polymer plate etching

untitled, aquatint etching

an untitled piece, aquatint etching w/ sacred chine' colle technique

"monster" stone lithograph

"maple city bowl" stone lithograph of my friends dropping pins

"gunnar hansen" aquatint etching of the actor playing leatherface
in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

aquatint etching w/ yellow surface roll

aquatint etching w/ blue surface roll

sketch