New Semester...New Blog

Greetings friends and fellow printmakers!  This semester I will frequently be updating/posting on a different blog as I embark on a journey into the world of letterpresses and typography.  

Check back to follow me on my adventures in printing on the Printshop's very own Vandercook press.  

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I will see you in the shop of blood, sweat, and tears!  (and love)

Social Responsibility

"Untitled"
intaglio

This semester we were asked to take a socially responsible stand through our work. I decided to take a closer look into the history of chemical warfare; specifically, Agent Orange. The image is a multi-plate print. The tree top/leaves actually is an outline of Vietnam. In the upper corner are images of the military planes that dumped the 20 million gallons of toxic, fatal chemicals. The radial images in the background are aquatinted and convey the movement and spread of the horrific contamination.

Agent Orange was the code name for a herbicide developed for the military, primarily for use in tropical climates. Although the genesis of the product goes back to the 1940's, serious testing for military applications did not begin until the early 1960's. Agent Orange was a 50-50 mix of two chemicals, known conventionally as 2,4,D and 2,4,5,T. The combined product was mixed with kerosene or diesel fuel and dispersed by aircraft, vehicle, and hand spraying. The TCDD found in Agent Orange is thought to be harmful to man. In laboratory tests on animals, TCDD has caused a wide variety of diseases, many of them fatal. Approximately 20 million gallons of herbicides were used in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971 to remove unwanted plant life and leaves which otherwise provided cover for enemy forces during the Vietnam Conflict. Agent Orange has been linked to mutations, cancers and other diseases in several epidemiological studies. The Agent Orange cancers and diseases include prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, (lung, trachea/bronchus, larynx), soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin disease, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and multiple myeloma.

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Fall Prints

sorry it has taken so long to update my blog with actual prints :)

Bonjour Bellas!

Who doesn't love naked Frenchmen?!
Any hesitant feelings towards this wonderful country can soon be alleviated!
Which one is our exchange student?!

team website:
STADE.FR

click for the video:
DIEUX DU STADE 2008

click to order:
AMAZON.COM

A New Semester Awaits

Classes begin tomorrow morning and I am so ready. Moving in just yesterday had forced me to put the year in high gear and now I cannot wait to start. I am ready to be busy, tired, stressed, challenged, and motivated. I welcome the new semester and all that it encompasses.

As for our theme of "Social Artistic Responsibility" I found an explanation that I think fits quite well.

"Mulana Karenga’s theory of social artistic responsibility: According to Karenga (2001), socially responsible artistic expression must meet three qualifications:
(1) It must be functional, possessing the ability to address social issues particularly affecting oppressed and marginalized communities.
(2) It must be collective, representing the fullness of the cultural experience of a people and
(3) It must be committing, offering forth a motivation for the realization of a people’s true potential and an active work against social limitations."

-taken from Penn State

Anyways, enjoy one last stress-free night of sleep (or maybe not) and good luck tomorrow!

New Webpage

http://homepage.mac.com/rdelapp

im trying to look all professional :P

ok, so that one doesnt work for some reason: try this one
http://homepage.mac.com/rdelapp/Menu3.html

Ending so soon?!

yet another semester has slipped by...







here are some more recent prints but believe it or not, there is more yet to come! :) Finish Hard!

As promised

Here are my 2 newer plates....i only put a few of the prints up but i have many more with diferent color combos. i liked these the best! i will see all my print sisters and brothers after a restful spring break! :)

my fav (above)

So Far...

A month into the semester (thats all?!) and i have 2 prints and several plates that im working on right now! its been a crazy week and ideas were just going nuts so i have 2 new plates that are pretty SICK but i dont have pictures of yet cus im still etching and printing :) im very excited tho!! this week will be awesome! i cant wait!

(red inked over black wiped plate)

(multi-plate)

was a bitch to line up :/ grrr

Back Yet Again!

HAHA!! Once more I find myself itching to get back to the Printshop of Blood, Sweat, and Tears! :) I am thoroughly excited for this spring semester and can't wait to smell the ink! These hands are much too clean!

End of the Semester!

Yikes! I can't believe that we are almost done with fall semester! wow, time flies! But, things have been busy and I am finally getting around to posting new prints. After messing around with my 4-circle plates, I decided that a new plate with new ideas was in order! What fun! A wandering mind and clean hardground plate left me to explore.....

i'm not sure which way is up on these so excuse the flippage :)

i'm disappointed with the 2nd print in yellow/orange...strange happenings


more prints to come this weekend! i have tons of time to print! :D

Chine Cole!

love this stuff!

PostSecret

pretty much my favorite website:

PostSecret

also good if u have hours to kill (its addicting)

Flickr

Swimsuit Day

swimsuit day participants

new prints that look like tie-dye :/

New Colors!

Color Prints: old/new plates

last semesters plates : this semesters color

NEW PRINTS, NEW COLOR!

the past few days in the printshop have been filled with fun experimentation! i love this new world to print with! and actually, this plate was more of a time-killer/experiment plate to try out color on, but i'm kinda liking it! :P LOL

anyways, i am already planning my series to work on...it should be fun if i can pull it off! its been a lot of hours in the shop the past few days and i need more copper! haha! i have 2 plates started and one more planned so far! i am looking foward to this semester! :D

Blood, Sweat, and Tears...

back for round 2 in this shop that changes lives. i am excited to work with all the new babies as well as the veterans that keep this place magical. i cant wait to start printing, but i have no idea where i want to start this semester! im optimisticly at a loss of imagery right now. i messed around online this afternoon tho and ran across and old fav of mine:
MC Escher
Most of the images below are woodcuts/litho and the details are so amazing!

Mummified Frog

August 1946
mezzotint on laid paper
23.3 x 29.6 cm; plate, 13.9 x 17.6 cm



Castle in the Air 1928
woodcut on japan paper
68.6 x 44.7 cm; image, 62.6 x 38.6 cm


The Drowned Cathedral 1929
woodcut on japan paper
79.2 x 48.3 cm; image, 72 x 41.6 cm



Covered Alley in Atrani, Coast of Amalfi 1931
wood engraving on japan paper
28.5 x 18.4 cm; image, 18.1 x 12.9 cm


Tree 1919
woodcut on wove paper
46.1 x 37.5 cm;
image, 39.1 x 31.6 cm

This Bitch is Back

haha! 3 days and i'll be back on campus and back into the dream i call reality! i am so stoked to be an art major now and i can't wait to get my hands dirty once again in the shop of blood, sweat, and tears! summer was awesome but i am so ready to put my inspirations to work! :) here's to another great semester!

DONE!

Wow....so my series is complete. As is this semester in the Print Shop of LOVE. (and blood, sweat, and tears) It's now 4:30am the morning of our last day in the shop. We turn in our final prints, eat delicious treats, and enjoy each others company for one last time. :'( Next semester will be tons of fun I am sure. With new babies in tow and a whole new sheet of copper ready to be warped by my sick mind! I will post many pictures in the next day or two! Enjoy

Series

I'm still not sure on the title..but i like it for now. i have 2 new prints to add to the first figure print. The second two prints focus more on the concrete imagery of abuse/addiction. I thought the syringes would add some neat details since the first figure print is not super detailed. The bottle print is hard to see in the whole picture but the close up shows the bodies inside. In a sense, trying to get out but drowning in their own poison. Neither of the last two are even close to being done...I just started them this week and just printed them to see where they were going and what I want to do next. Yea! I am glad I got a solid focus on them!