Hive 5: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Anthology
This post has been long in the making. I got my copy in the mail sometime around Labor Day, but I’m just now collecting myself to write a post about it.
Here are photos on the cover design that Mark Leicht created with my illustration for the cover as well as a spread from my art buddy Cole Closser whose comic I enjoyed in the anthology.
Mark used vellum as a dust cover to layer the bees. It’s pretty nifty in person.
Here’s what the cover looks like without the dust jacket (but more purple, my camera washed it out).
Detail of the inside dust jacket.
Cole Closser is another alumni of the Missouri State undergraduate program. He’ll be a big deal one day, just wait.
If you want to get a copy yourself, order online at the store (printed copy at $10) or download the pdf (at the low, low cost of $3)
Art Inspiration: Eduardo Recife
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
I don’t look up as many collage artists as I should, but of the few that I am a fan of is Eduardo Recife. I was first introduced to his work in graduate school and now that I seem to be incorporating more collage into my own work it feels important to keep his work in mind as a reference. I love his mixture of collage, patterns, and personal hand drawn touches.
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
Source: google.com via Megan on Pinterest
Get In If You Want To Live
Here’s the book that I’ve been included to illustrate one of the stories: Get In If You Want To Live. I got my copy in mail and it’s lovely. All the illustrations in it are beautiful and the writing is fantastic and funny.
Here’s my page spread:
I was excited to finally view the rest of the illustrations. It was neat to see my grad classmate, Robert Algeo’s illustration, along with other artists I’ve come to admire from Minneapolis and internationally.
If you’re interested in this fine quality small press book, you can order it here.
Prepping for the MCAD Art Sale
Getting ready to finally “bag n’ tag” my artwork for the MCAD Art Sale. I’m sending mostly unframed work since I need to ship instead of hand deliver. I know my sales would be potentially better if the art is framed, but hopefully people will seek out the work.
Ugh, I hate filling out those tags.
Anyway, if I’m ambitious enough, I’ll post the images that will be on sale throughout the month of November until the event. If you live in the Minneapolis area, you should check the school wide sale. There are lots of great art to collect that are all sold at a great value (artists get 80% of the commission, so less need to adjust the price of the artwork).
I got sucked into the addicting world that is known as Pinterest. I mostly use it for my students, but I have to admit that I enjoy the image collecting experience.
If anybody wants to add me, I’ll add you back. I would like to find as many great examples of art and design as possible for future semesters.
Art page updated
Art page is updated! Also all the annoying glitches and code errors I have been experiencing with Lightbox has been fixed. WordPress likes to change things on me every time it updates and then make me work to fix my pages/posts.
Last of the silkscreen collages
I think I’m officially done with collaging my old prints for a while. I’m ready for something new now and I’ve got ideas… if only I had time to execute them. Bummer.
Illustration for “The Monroe Family Bed Wishes To Die”
Ink, photoshop
Excerpt from John Jodzio’s “The Monroe Family Bed Wishes To Die”:
“I can see you shaking your heads, I can hear you saying that you can’t, you couldn’t, you won’t. Listen Tom and Connie, I didn’t want to have to pull this card, but I’d like you to know that I will take measures to make sure my wish is fulfilled. What measures? I’d rather not have to spell it out for you, but let’s just say that it starts with the an ‘s’ and ends with ‘uffication.’ Is that enough of a hint? “
Reclaimed Exhibition
From the Facebook Event Page:
“River’s Edge Gallery is proud to present ‘RECLAIMED’ curated by Perfect Laughter. Perfect Laughter has been a very active art’s blog based out of the Detroit Metro area and now they are also creating prints. We love their blog and their work and thought with their talents they would be a perfect fit to curate a show at the gallery… So now we present to you ‘Reclaimed’ curated by Perfect Laughter!”
From Perfect Laughter:
“Since starting this blog three years ago we have wanted to curate a show featuring artists whom we admire, we just lacked a venue. When we were approached earlier this year by River’s Edge Gallery about curating a show, we jumped at the opportunity. We contacted all of our favorite artists and were surprised and flattered at the response we received. Virtually everyone agreed to be part of the show.
We decided that we wanted to do a themed show, but didn’t want to limit the artists creativity, nor force them to work outside of their signature styles. We decided on found objects, and titled the show “Reclaimed”. We were pretty loose with the definition of “found objects”, so we were eager to see what everyone came up with. The results have been fantastic, we have received work that includes old wood, paper, old screenprints, electrical parts, book covers, and even charcoal headstone rubbings.”
Artists Participating are:
Angela Duncan
April Segedi
Audrey Pongracz
Chad Davis
Christopher Gideon
Dennis Hayes IV
Dennis Jacobs
Eddie Thiel
Emi Slade
Heather Hansma
Heli Kankainen
Kill Taupe
Kristin Barr
Jeremiah Britton
Jeremy Hansen
Leslie Gauthier
Marian Short
Megan Frauenhoffer
Mindy McPeak
Nicole Ray
Rudy Salazar III
Ryan Weiss
Sarah Santi
Taro Takizama
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My work “They Creep”
I changed the orientation when it was framed. It just made since when it was within the context of the frame. Here’s some process photos, camera phone style:
The ink on mylar before it goes through the photo exposure process of screen printing.
Here are the prints from the black and white editions. I had blue and colored prints that were mistake prints with weird splotches and other interesting textures. I combined the prints from “The Snow Queen” and “The Longest Winter” together to create this collage:
A really bad cell phone pic of my almost finished collage. I think I made some minor touch ups afterwards, but this is near completion.
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If you’re in the area, drop by and see the work as well as the others in the show!
“Her Arms Became Trees”
“Her Arms Became Trees”
silkscreen print, collage, marker, color pencil, paint
From time to time, I create little collage studies with my bad prints from the first series of silkscreen prints I produced earlier this year. I try to challenge myself to seek new ways to envision these figures. They transform, become monsters, or find themselves waging battles with other creatures. This collage was constructed to fit a theme for an upcoming ‘zine, Little Constructs:
*Photo by Erica Williams
If interested in seeing more you can explore their website and/or preorder your copy.
