Archive for December, 2009

2010.

December 31, 2009 5:25 am / Thoughts / No comments

My New Year’s Resolution for 2010 is to start something. Whether it be start making Friends Make Prints more official and steady, start getting my artwork into galleries, or start ideas that never leave my brain. The goal is to just start because that’s the only way I can get [...]

 
CROSSOVER.

CROSSOVER.

December 29, 2009 10:08 pm / Photography / 1 comment

Just got these lovelies back. I’m starting to think I should start experimenting with cross processing. I love how these turned out, but I love the wild colors Holgas can capture. This last one is the one I had mentioned I couldn’t wait to see how it turned out. I [...]

 
CUSTOM.

CUSTOM.

December 24, 2009 2:52 am / Family, Photography / No comments

With the short time I had between getting back from San Francisco and dinner with the family for Christmas Eve, I painted a new holga camera to give to my cousin Britnee. With the first stroke of purple paint, I immediately regretted this decision. Her boyfriend Mark had been secretly [...]

 
RENEGADE. (San Fran ’09)

RENEGADE. (San Fran ’09)

December 23, 2009 9:01 pm / Printmaking / No comments

Just got back from a much needed vacation to San Francisco. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I stepped into the building in the bay area for The Renegade Craft Fair. It was amazing and overwhelming at once. After 3 1/2 hours of browsing, making lists of what I wanted [...]

 
SSP.

SSP.

December 13, 2009 6:25 pm / Printmaking / No comments

Yay!! Sycamore Street Press is a Featured Seller on Etsy! Check it out guys! Here’s a little somethin’ somethin’ from the interview so you can start getting to know them: “We are Kirk and Eva Jorgensen, and between the two of us, we have lived in 4 countries, 7 states, [...]

 
BLIND.

BLIND.

December 9, 2009 2:15 pm / Love, Printmaking / 1 comment

Remember when I said I got inspired from my Impressive Kiss print to print completely blind? Well, here it is in all it’s glory. Once again it’s a play on printing. Can you guess what I titled it? 17 3/4″ x 12. Printed on Bleached Lettra, wet pack.

 
GIVE.

GIVE.

December 8, 2009 11:55 pm / Graphic Design, Printmaking / No comments

The Salt Lake City Chapter AIGA had an event this evening called AIGiveA at Frosty Darling. Four local letterpress shops, The Mandate Press, Mr. Letter’s Press, Tryst Press, and White Elephant donated an edition of 100 holiday cards for AIGA to sell. The President of (SLC) AIGA is the Creative [...]

 

GIMMIE.

December 4, 2009 3:31 pm / Family, Printmaking / No comments

For those who know about the Series of Unfortunate Events, it shouldn’t come to much surprise my family will not be celebrating Christmas this year. I’m the youngest so we can all be adults about it. I never did like sharing a list of things I wanted knowing others felt [...]

 
AARON.

AARON.

December 1, 2009 10:59 am / Graphic Design / No comments

Let me get this out of the way: Thank God this project is done. And I say this for me as well as Aaron Ashton considering I saw a glimpse of the life of a musician and choosing between one note and another before recording seems painful. I’ve been working [...]