I'm an artist/printmaker who teaches, enjoying but struggling to do both well. This is an outlet for all the student prints I collect, for my work and other print stuff that needs more exposure. More of my work at: www.austincc.edu/bjohnson
Kelly Hanner’s multi plate relief print from around 2007.
One and two plate relief prints by Stephen Sosa from my spring 2012 semester of Print I; not too shabby for a first and second print ever.
another spring 2012 screen print by Nicole Brown, 7” x 7”.
Spring 2012, screen print by MacKenzie Moss, 7” x 7”.
Fresh from spring 2012 semester collection of prints from my screen printing class: Misa Rodriguez Valenzuela.
Whew, school is out for the summer and its time for me to get going on some prints. I’ve been bad again about posting, so here’s a fun one from last fall 2011. A screen print from Maria Hansen, a newly minted grad looking for illustration work.
A screen print from Renee Robin Riddle circa 2000, “Here they come”; the print was done with opaque inks and has a real relief texture that makes you want to touch it.
Back to some student work from a recent graduate: This is Margo Uyarra’s gem of a mixed media screenprint from the spring of 2011.
some of my sketches for the print Aristabulus Bragg that didn’t make the cut.
These are the initial drawings I did for the Aristabulus Bragg print; I used crow quill pens on bristol board for an old, unfinished, illustration feel.
the first daguerreotype in the US was shot around 1839 as well; I used this subtext of a posed character for the Aristabulus Bragg piece.
Webster’s massacre occurred in Texas close to my home in 1839 as well; couldn’t find a way to fit it in to the Aristabulus Bragg piece, but it was in some of my earlier sketches. Texas was still largely rough frontier and the east coast had several modern cities for the time and yet both could be equally violent with different dangers.
more source material for Artistabulus Bragg; a leaflet from 1838.
One of the great relief sources I discovered doing research for the Aristabulus Bragg print; the Amistad incident was one of the major news events of 1839. Reading the story as it was reported in the news was amazing; the social bias of the time is clearly evident in both the words and illustration.
political cartoon inspiration from 1839 for the Aristabulus Bragg print
