Coffee Grinder Press

2011-09-05T09:09:00.000-07:00

2011-09-04T10:22:00.000-07:00

Devil Worm ceramics that I made at an art teacher workshop this last summer. It was at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Dumpy town - great school!
Had a great time.

This is some of the first wormy art I made. The damn things were eating my wife's tomatoes so I had to purge.

You can't really see it b/c I did an awful job, but in the middle of this dish there's a leaf. The piece was made on a slump mold. What's that? A thingy to put a slab of clay on to give it this bowl shape.

Made on a paper plate.

Just a tile with holes so it can be hung up.

Here's this thing finished. I added some more lines to increase the contrast.

2011-09-04T06:48:00.000-07:00

2011-05-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

Here's one I did for one of my kids at school. He's been harassing me to draw this thing since I wore it last August.

2011-03-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

2011-03-22T20:53:00.000-07:00

Whenever you see initials in an entry, that piece is sort of dedicated to the person who owns those initials.

an apple. no big deal. a golden delicious was in front of me looking golden and delicious.

a green ink drawring.

This is one of those smelly thingy bottles. It has oil in it and sticks to suck up the oil and make a room smell good. I put a cork in it and filled it with some pen cleaning mess.

A cup full of pee. The docs wanted to make sure my kidneys were working. They're fine.

A booze bottle. Yeah.

2011-02-26T08:14:00.000-08:00

Tha Coffee Mug Book

2011-02-20T12:22:00.000-08:00

Bubbles/Ace of Spades

2010-06-13T23:06:00.001-07:00

2009-03-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

i title this one 'ISI & GENTRY'

i title this one 'YOU L'IL DEVIL, YOU'

2009-03-28T16:11:00.000-07:00

all done. just needs to dry.

2008-11-05T21:07:00.000-08:00

Quintessence of Loud

2008-11-05T17:05:00.000-08:00

Finally done with it all. Finished Liz and Holden in one weekend. I had to b/c the show is this Friday. Now I just have to pull some prints.

Rage.... and i'm sick of it

2008-09-20T06:26:00.000-07:00

So here it is. Rage. I finally got around to finishing the danged thing. You know, being a teacher takes up a lot of time. And it's sort of exhausting. But really, I can't believe I get paid for it. It's great. I've never had so much fun in my life. I've been looking at this thing for so long I'm sick of it. I suppose it's okay though.

Quintessence of Loud

2008-08-09T14:46:00.000-07:00

work in progress...
part of a triptych i'm making to celebrate the one year anniversary of my gallery.
i'll call it something like "quintessence of loud" since the gallery is named studio loud.

the one in progress is me. on the left is my boy, on the right my wife.

laughter, rage, and deafening silence.

8x10 inches
vinyl tile

http://www.myspace.com/studioloudgallery

Paranoia

2008-08-02T19:38:00.000-07:00

"Paranoia"

my little brother jeremy.

was going to be included with the Mustaches for Miracles series but you can't see his beard. and plus i just finished it tonight, which would make it about 3 weeks late for the event. oh well.

i'm really proud of it.

Redbeard's Mug

2008-07-19T13:03:00.000-07:00

So here it is. The last piece. The show was over a week ago, but I'm just now uploading the final print. THis is Redbeard, a local celebrity sort of. He's a tattoo artist. http://www.livingcanvas.net

Compilation of Prints

2008-07-10T18:35:00.000-07:00

So here I have it. A reference. Look at the links on the left and start checkin out the prints. I haven't seen a good list of prints anywhere, so I'm making my own. I'll always add them as I find them.

May 2008 Gallery Walk

2008-07-05T11:00:00.000-07:00

3 block lino print
My wife and child at the dentist's office.

Lithograph.
Titled "Obsession" or something like that.

A wall at the gallery

"Tim Print". A work in progress.
Me on the left and gallery owner Mr. Kudabeck on the right.

Mustaches for Miracles

2008-07-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

I cut this block for a charity benefit which is called Mustaches for Miracles.
[link]. it's a money raiser for Arkansas Children's Hospital.

I was in a slump for about a month after my gallery show and when i heard about the benefit i thought, hey, i could do some mustaches and coffee mugs. hence the last few pieces with people drinking from coffee mugs. i just pulled two more prints last night (still works in progress) of people with mustaches drinking from coffee mugs. they just need a little refinement and they'll be fine.

So this is "Just Trey". He works at Redbeard's Living Canavas Tattoo shop [link]. It's a relief print cut from vinyl and is about 6.5X7.75 inches.

so i went in there one day and asked some of the other guys to pose for me and they weren't really interested, and the guy who had agreed to pose was busy with a tat so i had to go back the next day to do the shoot. instead of bringing only my camera, i also brought in two of my prints. after the other guys saw my work, they asked me if i still wanted them to pose. i was PSYCHED! hellz yeah! and Redbeard, (the main dude/owner) has this awesome little naked lady coffee mug that he's gonna pose with, so i should have some good work to post here real soon.

and july 12th is when the mustache benefit will take place and some of my prints will be donated for auction. hopefully they sell. but i'm wondering if i could put them in a show and sell them too. i dunno how all that works. hopefully i'll get something out of this. even if it's commissions, that'd be cool.

and i also just bought some new woodcarving tools. from Warren Cutlery. a little place in new york. they're cheap japanese tools, similar to Power Grip ([link]), but they're sharper than hell. i ordered four different knives from ([link]) warren instead of getting a 'set' that would have extra tools that i'd never use. and the shipping was free b/c it was under 10 pounds.

anyway. i love my tools.

i'm off to carve.

"Upper Lip"

"Papa Doesn't Drink Coffee"

"Two Mugs"