SUBURBAN SQUANDER

old comics, fresh inspiration

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(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

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composition

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serial seven

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look closely, mortals. . .

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

page six

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DENIZENS OF DILAPIDATION PAGES 1-5 (in progress)

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page 5, johnny ghastly solvent transfer

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drawings from nyc trip

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drawings done en route to nyc

forf page

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colorized

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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

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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

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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

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drawing of the week

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capacitor print

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

more scraps

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

DRAWING of the weak

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fortress of solitude

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upper floor of my dad's plumbing shop

work space

ideas

Recently at the Resource

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

scrap

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I sorted through scrap the other day at work and found some very interesting pieces of crushed valves, copper tubing, metal knobs, and discarded tools. I decide to draw all of them, here are some ideas for a print about copper pipes and their shape relationships.

and in turn

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I am interning at Artist's Image Resource on the North Side of Pittsburgh, my home town. I work as an apprentice/ slave. Last thursday we shot 7'x4' screens for Bill Fick, an artist out of Raleigh, NC. He has many heads, one pictured above. Hopefully I'll get some shots of the studio space up here sooner or later.

We also pulled proofs for John Ritter, an artist/illustrator out of Ligonier, PA

somethings did happen, are

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We'll i have fallen of the bloghorse, it's been four months since my last post, a lot of things were made, destroyed. Here are the latest creations.

These are images i am planning for four color screen printing, colors shown are for separation purposes. The top one has three colors printed, it will be done on tuesday in an edition of 8, pictures to come.

something is bound to happen.

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empty office in my dad's shop that i am currently occupying.

Witzend #6, 1969

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i saw these on a golden age of comics blog, dynamic compositions, really well executed, awesome. never heard of the book but the artist is jeff jones who also did work for Creepy and Eerie magazines as well as his own series 'Idyl', which was fairly popular at the time.

FREAKS

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doppleganger

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needs more work.

compost

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compositions for three painting final that must display thematic development. these are loosly based off of crime scene photos that i cropped.

lay-yurs

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ten layer painting for final, i figured most paintings are more then ten layers, so i would make them visible. this is more of a drawing with paint than a painting. about 2' x 3' on pine panel.

abundance of absence

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drawing for griffin's exquisite corpse compilation book

"Shelocta, PA" by Philip Elliot, 1943

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Sketch based on a painting I liked at the Albright-Knox gallery in Buffallo by Philip Elliot (who I can find no other work from elsewhere)

Hey, How'd You Get Here?

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development for a painting that pulls concepts from literature. This one is based on Edgar Allan Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart". The narrator is unreliable, claiming sanity as he recalls his obsession with an old man's blind eye and his heartbeat. The "eye" which drives him to murder the old man is actually him, the "I". This story also explores the relationship between the imagined and the scientific.

"'Villains!' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! - here, here! - it is the beating of his hideous heart!'"

investigation

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composition sketch for 9'x5' painting on unstretched muslin

In the Midst

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next picture for the show (texas chainsaw massacre again)
portrait by my friend Sam Pribish for one of her photo projects

Poster Jams

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max and i whipped this baby up in 30 minutes flat

stencil painting

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I was going to use this composition but I felt that the figurative gesture was more emotive.

done with stencils/acrylic paint/high gloss acrylic enamel

slag

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photo reference taken by my father back in the days of old.
preliminary (15''x22'')
final painting (2'x4')

star gazing

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brush and ink drawing overlayed with multiple tracing paper/colored sharpie and scanned. its the whole image but this is all i could fit onto the scanner bed.

"what happened was true"

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Studio Sessions (B-sides)

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lou fine "the ray"
sketch for upcoming painting assignment with 10 visible layers. I am going to utilize transparency to produce color overlaps inspired by overprinting in old 4 color comics (pictured above).
drawing for upcoming moka showka w/ max davis. i'm doing a series of drawings that loosely reference screen captures from horror movies (1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre shown above)
a place where things happen (15'x15')
painting based on a color (2'x3')
jamming
two norwegians, one dream; the norwegian pizza factory

needs more work, cold wax medium (4'x4')

conceptually speaking

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during the debate

Stoneybrook specimens.

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local state park inhabitants.

throwing up.

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Zack jobbed Max and I out to help him throw an illustration up on the graffiti wall for his lamp design project, Ill Light. I did the creature, Max the mountain-scape, and Zack the text.

Landscaping

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portrait of a monster

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Final

High Gloss Enamel on Canvas (5' x 4')

RECENT PAINTINGS WORKS IN PROGRESS

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RECENT WORKS IN PROGRESS

print work

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stone litho

etching

etchings with hand coloring

photo etching

two color etching

reductive woodcuts

etchings

woodcut

digital

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