Have you ever ridden an alpine slide?

I had not until a few weeks ago when I rode the one in Gatlinburg, TN. It was so much fun and it inspired me to start a set of prints based on the attractions in Gatlinburg. The first one is of course the alpine slide:







We now want to seek out and ride all the alpine slides left in existence! Kind of like the people that visit all the major league baseball parks I guess...

Aloha Monkey

I did this print just for fun, but it turned out so good that I went ahead and put in on Etsy! This is based on a great old piece of tattoo flash. I included a look at both the print and the linoleum block. Aloha!

Another Motel Print

Here is the next print I attempted in the series of motel prints I just started. I again printed on brown and white card stock -- and I still like the white version better. I could have done better with the use of negative space I think in this one, but it was more difficult than the first motel print to pick the right elements to transfer from a photograph.

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:

Blast Off print completed

Here's the completed print from an earlier sketch I posted. This was one of my most successful three color prints. I am encouraged to start doing more of them -- that third color can make a big difference!

diy:mia TEAR/OFF art show

Through some photos I had posted on flickr I got invited to participate in this street art and DIY art show in Miami called TEAR/OFF. You can get more details and see the artwork being submitted on their flickr group
www.flickr.com/groups/diymia. I submitted these older prints:








The show will be up at Miami International University’s Main Gallery from July 19th through August 24th.