As I was making this design I started thinking of bengal tigers

“…Night Moves” 2024 11x17” mixed media on paper - screen printing, water color, gouache, colored pencils, acrylic, brush pen

This is the second part of the series. I wanted to make pieces about disassociation and the idea of occupying spaces that are ungrounded. I felt like it would have been easier to make something that was about depicting the disconnect, turmoil, or ambiguity of some of the sensations related to disassociating. But I wanted to make something more optimistic, for my own sake, and that was more challenging for my imagination.

I thought of a character and wanted to incorporate imagery t hat was more about getting clues that lead towards being more in the body, grounded, and more engaged with life. Doing that and learning more about how to use the watercolors and gouache.

11x17” mixed media on paper 2024

-watercolor, screen printing, gouache, and colored pencils on paper

This piece is called “Holdovers…”

It’s part of a pair that’s about having the experience of disassociation but moving through it in a positive way. I wanted the pieces to be sort of dream like and have elements that are attractive. The birds are sort of an anchor or reminder that the character wants freedom and to not be burdened by aspects of the past.

I think this one will happen this year

Realizing that I can use hand drawn patterns to make interesting designs. Sometimes it’s about the color ways.

Working on making something every day

I’ve been practicing making repeat patterns by warping digital line work I make. Often I create textures from my photography and I just want different techniques in my wheel house. I dig the color combos on this design and just how the lines draw my eye in different directions in sort of a casual manner. To me it’s sort of retro and future-y at the same time.

June 18th 2024

I’ve posted a lot of designs just to my Instagram stories and it’s time to change it up. For a while I’ve realized that I should post on my own website first, then socials. What usually happens is that I’m in a hurry and I’ll set the poster to hit IG and forget to post to my blog. With AI scrapping going on it reminds me to invest in my own blog before sharing to socials. I really enjoy my fashion design sketches and I think it’s time to treat them better.

I spent some of this Sunday generating different kinds of Labels that I could attach to my clothing. Recently I was at a market and an artist showed me a label from a brand from Mexico. The label was an illustration of a whole scene playing out between two characters. That inside label let me know that there is a whole world of possibilities open to adding narrative to pieces and using details to make things more interesting. These designs are not in the lane of narrative labels, but I wanted to practice some more of the standard of label design generation.

Recently I found out about ai training on social media, so I’ll be posting more to my blog more

I’ll be posting more to my blog. I’ve finished the second edition of the zines and by Thursday of next week I will have sent them all out. Even though the design work of the zine was all finished, it took time to acquire all the resources to finish the project. It feels good to complete projects. I feel like it gives that extra energy to move forward and finish more.

June, 7, 2024

Just some clips from this weeks drawing night

I made the screens with the plastic and flexible frames.

The first round worked, this round, the second round didn’t expose at all.

Ideally the process would be a wash out I n a bucket or shower to clear the screen.

-removable of screen could be better. Maybe stapling a mesh to a wooden frame. Exposing, cutting out the mesh. Then attaching to a new frame of different material.

Materials?

Could you construct larger images with pieces together torn out screens?

I buy art supplies often and now I’m attempting to learn the tools. I know just a few simple tools can make great work, but I also like to try stuff out. Right now I’m working on learning this brush pen and these water colors. Limiting my palate with colors has me focus more on light and shadows, how I can blend to get more range. The brush pen is all about flow, and seeing what I can accomplish with just one tool. I just try to keep it all in my bag, so I can work on it regularly.

I enjoy making pieces like this in my sketchbook. I notice there are better design choices I could have made, but that came through in hindsight. Manila those choices have to do with lettering. Sometimes these pieces don’t do well, but I. Enjoy making them. I love creating narratives.

Just exploring design with this piece and seeing if I can take it further. I notice it can be more

02.03.24 - yesterday I was attempting to make some flexible diy silk screens and they all came out bad. Unusable. I had another screen ready and I burnt the fronts for these CMYK shirts. I picked up a course on how to make a collection and it’s presented some interesting ideas. The three collages that I’ve turned into CMYK prints all orbit around a theme. The journey, the path, using your gift to interact with and experience the world.

I realize to get better at clothing I’d like to learn how to make better graphic tees. I can focus on art and translate the ideas of my work to tees and remix them. I’d like to have a season where I just focus on making a lot of Loose one off tees. Then I can start bringing things together for collections. Doing small collections of five pieces.

These first three CMYK shirts are going to be an exploration of how to make better and easier. Developing a system or a grip of systems.