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sketchbook

After bettering my screen print, litho, illustrator, after effects, final cut, HDV cam, photography, photoshop, abbleton, logic, record buying, love making, cooking, sketching and time management skills, i would really like to start painting. 

jim 

Risen

sketchbook: risen

Sketchbook page from some time back. I think this would have been my first pen and ink drawing. He seems to be posing as one of those husky vixens typical of some designer perfume add. Not much else to say on the matter really.

jim 

silk screen print

It was suggested by fellow Udio troll Ricky, that we put out something more instant as a poster. This resulted in me buying a pot of ink and some unreliable dipping instrument -apparently a pen although i still don't trust it. The permanence scares me but i appreciate the ability to get a very instant, graphic image so quickly. It then seemed very natural to hide all of my short comings with the ink behind a pretty bit of color courtesy of a silk screen print run. I am wary of using hand printing methods as a form of currency conversion, enhancing an otherwise mundane image's attributes under the guise of new tactility but there were genuine pros for me to take the image into screen printing (honestly): Much cheaper and collectible (as there will be more). 

Jim 

Udio First Birthday Poster

silk screen print

Different girl, different t-shirt. And the collection begins. Second outing with pen and ink in this way, slowly ironing out the issues of line speed and of confidence with permanent mark making. A simple, smooth gradient through the colors works well to disguise mistakes in the drawing. 

Jim

Basker

Lithograph Print - "man, woman, machine" brief

Burgeoning litho project. With a laborious prep process and cumbersome mechanics it was feeling tenuous for a while but once production begins, and the results of a 200 year old process start to show i was seduced. I found  the bloke sunbathing in the imperial war museum's park and drew up a sketch from a sneaky photo stolen in the city sunshine. I have plans for a series -entirely litho, of men in particularly inadvertently feminine poses. Only after using the plate did i understand the litho specific printing possibilities. I could easily have produced a print of this nature in silk screen as i wasn't drawing straight onto the plate -one of the most enticing features of litho's endowments. 

Jim   

Terry

silk screen print - solution to "man, woman, machine" brief

My first reasonably complicated silk screen. Like the unfortunate guinea pig whose reputed acts of brevity: throwing it's body over the grenade, stepping first into the mine field, or signing the bee gees permitted the birth of a mark2, a logically improved successor.  I learned a lot about the numerous pitfalls of the process with regard to layer separations in photoshop and their transferal onto a screen. Strong color relationships hold it together, just, as the tragic registration conversely threatens to eradicate all legibility. Anyway, its about a man called Terry, who lives in isolation from gender concepts till one day his television tells him what the crack is, (no pun intended) and how he must redefine that thing between his legs. The comic format typically deals with archetypal characters and their corresponding anima or animus, so felt a suitable setting. 

jim  

Good Evening Nobody

it shall be an inconspicuous beginning, the event of my first blog, which i presume will include the following: talk of recorded music, some waffle of design and art and some minor pinpricks of a socially critical, observational and most probably nonsensical nature. 

jim