Another process animation--this time from a really old Intaglio print. I found a bunch of different versions from the process of working on the plate and put them together here. I made this in 2004 and found it hidden in a box yesterday!

I'm in the process of doing an etching on a 1 sided COTTON MUSEUM 12" LP. This is the first time i've worked on an etching for an LP and it's actually kind of stressful. You just get one chance to do it, so you have to make sure you have a steady hand...its totally different working on this compared to drawing on paper. When working on paper I usually figure out the composition in pencil before inking a drawing, but with this etching on a lacquer there isn't a way to do this. I ended up doing a lot of pencil sketches on paper before using the metal tools to etch on the lacquer. Check the drawing below to see a sketch that i used to prepare for the etching...

A while ago I was asked to contribute a page for a project called “NARRATIVE CORPSE” where a bunch of artists would continue drawing a comic without knowing the story---they only got to see the last frame from the page prior to theirs. It was a pretty fun project to be involved in! View my finished page to the Left, and the sketch on the right. If you want to see all the other pages that the artists did CLICK HERE --Mat Brinkmans is super killer!

Some more Beasts from the Sketchbook

both beasts drawn with .005 Micron pen

I made this a long time ago (i think 2005/2006), but thought this would be a good place to post it. I took photos of a painting that i did at random times through the process and made an animation out of it. It’s called “the Path through the Swamp” and you can see a higher quality scan of it over in the ARTWORK part of TASTY SOIL.

(PLEASE LET IT LOAD...)