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3-color riso: blue, sunflower (yellow), and fluorescent orange. A misty morning grove of western redcedars(ish), Pacific Northwest USA/Canada (Cascadia Bioregion). Beyond one of my favorite subject matters, I got to play with world building, architecture, magical realism, and my first with riso: fog. Riso does fog so well! It’s also such a pain to do opacity knock out across every layer.

I also included some of my process photos for those interested in seeing behind-the-scenes.

Today’s print run was a 1 hour studio session, and I’ve got 2 hours next week. I may come back to this piece with different inks (my test with aqua looked really cool), and some improvements like thicker lines, brighter windows, higher resolution (I switched canvas size and DPI mid project which pixelated a ton of stuff). So you’re either seeing WIP or a final (for now). The more I tinkered, the less it felt like whimsy concept fantasy art, which I really like, so it may be time to let this one go into the world and shift energy to the next project!

I had a lot of fun with this piece, continuing to add little scenes as they came to me. The primary motivator was this Californian Coast Live Oak, and since I was making it through summer solstice, bringing in some imagery from this moment of the year.

I made most of this in Procreate and then finished in Figma for color/gradient - converting some of the bitmaps into vector. PS. there’s an awesome Procreate -> figma plugin that makes the whole process much easier.

Made it all in 8 days - definitely pushed myself out of my comfort zone on style and subject matter. And that dang boy on the swing stumped myself and my partner for days 😆

Page 40, ‘Zines - Your Right to Rave

Can be found digitally here too: https://wholeearth.info/p/signal-communication-tools-for-the-information-age?format=spreads&index=0

I’ve been working on this Thuja “study” for over 4 years now. Collecting, observing, writing, drawing various artifacts. After a rather cringe lino print this past summer, I made this retro technical Riso poster this week. I’m both proud of the work (enough to share here) but also see all the mistakes - a missed color separation, registration bleh, I really wish I had enough time to illustrate the tree, I didn’t get the sepia photo into monochrome quite right, the font at the bottom is way way too small (I was designing in pixels and forgot I wasn’t in point). There’s also stuff I love! I got very close to the ‘Thuja’ custom typeface that was in my head, scarlet red riso ink is very very close to my favorite color, I’ve always wanted to design a technical montage mash up like this… and print BIG — this is my largest print to date at 11x17 tabloid.

There’s always going to be this gap between what’s in my head and what I can get out into the world. I think every creative struggles with this. What helps you share your work despite the gap?

We have a boy, and another one coming! This is for our boys and to help our community better understand how we’re approaching raising our boys. My son REALLY loves it … like I didn’t expect him to be so pumped about it.

P.S. the flo pink riso ink is so rad in person and can never be fully captured digitally. If you know, you know.