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Orale!! Santa Ana Homes!! Hey get your Santanero one year anniversary issue; it just came out and actually i need to get one myself, i actually saw my friends issue and it looked amazing!! 

Yours truly is in it as well;  so help celebrate and support all the hard working people that made it through their first year!! 

Congrats Santanero!

Link Love:
Santanero Zine

 
 
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hi! i was included in santanero zine #4 this month. 

im going to go look for a copy of it today theres only a 1000 out there...if your local go get one!!

my pieces are the two on the bottom left of the second pic.

link love:
http://www.santanerozine.com/ 

the F+ show was mentioned online at oc weekly's web site. i wasnt mentioned in the article but oh well; anna britell was mentioned and her stuff is awesome! Also her art is pictured right above mine in the santanero zine...

more link love:
http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-08-16/culture/off-the-record-f-plus-gallery-santa-ana-artists-village/
http://www.annabrittell.com/

 
 
Here is the second state of my cubist inspired guitar print. It is an etching done on a zinc plate. I think im gonna do a series of them...
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Etching 2nd state 2012
 
 
Hi. Last week I posted a picture of a zinc plate  with a guitar that I am working on. Well earlier this week I did a test print of it. It was ok. Two of my finger prints etched into the plate :( so I will have to burnish them out or put some sort of texture on it possibly with aquatint. I forgot my plate at home so I couldn't work on it.

Todays rainy morning was a perfect day for printmaking. I actually spent all day cutting, beveling, sanding, six copper plates. I never printed on copper plates so I will have to use ferric acid on them to etch.

Here is the first print of the guitar...
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Etching first print 2012 my two finger prints are on the top left and right sides.
 
 
Hi here is a  zinc plate i just etched this past friday…I ended touching the plate before i put it in acid so you can see to of my finger prints etched. I’ll probably put some aquatint over it or burnish those out…
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Zinc Plate
 
 
Heres the first proof of a dry point on plexi; I already re-worked the plate but I wont print again till Friday...

5x7"
Stonehenge Paper
 
 
Here is what I have printed so far in printmaking class with Jim Lorigan. They are mono-prints, meaning that each is one of a kind; or that only one can be printed. We did linocuts yesterday but i dont have pics of them but i cant wait to start etching...also sorry for the lame titles; I dont know what they are yet...enjoy.
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Monoprint -2011- Skull Pug
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Monoprint- 2011- skull bat
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Monoprint- 2011- G Girl
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Color Monoprint on cream paper- 2011- Untitled
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Color Monoprint on cream colored paper- 2011 - untitled
 

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