Motel Sign Print

I just finished a new two-color print that I will be sending to the Print Exchange Five, an exchange I was invited to on printmakers.info.

I did two versions, one on glossy white card stock and one on rough cardboard-y card stock. At first I liked the one on the brown cardboard better, but the white one grew on me so I have decided to send that one out. Here they are:






I am very happy about these prints, because I have tried several times to make prints from my motel sign photographs with little success. In the past I was trying to get too much detail into the prints. This time I concentrated on stripping out a lot of detail and including very bold outlines, which seemed to work a lot better. I had so much fun with this one I am going to attempt a series!

some old pictures from Rogersville, Tennessee

Back in May we worked at a car show in Rogersville, Tennessee. I had been meaning to post some pictures of this but I forgot about them. The car show is a benefit for local charities, and each year is held on the land of a man who has recreated a small town from the fifties on his property. He has a Texaco gas station, a car dealership with an original curved class window, a railroad car style diner, a metal Sears house (I think it is Sears, anyway) and lots and lots of vintage antiques to furnish them. And the buildings are not just reproductions -- he has purchased the actual buildings and has had them moved to his property. It really is like a museum -- he should open for business and charge admission.

My camera ran out of batteries partway through, but here is a sample of some of the sights: