In St. Louis

Oh dear, I am so busy.  I've split the skin on my fingers from sewing and carving.  So, no new prints this week as all the stuff I'm working on is large and won't be done for a while.  In the meantime, here are images of my work on display at Wash U in St. Louis for SGCI.

Open Studios, Spring 2011

This is my last one as a student.
 

Housefly

Using waterbased textile ink, I screenprinted flies all over these grey American Apparel tights. I stretched the tights over a flat piece of paste board (don't use corrugated cardboard!) and rotated them to cover the whole piece with a polka dot pattern of flies. I heat sealed each fly with a heat gun, which should have been adequate, but sadly the flies faded significantly after the first wash. Thankfully, I got to wear them at least once before they became less than impressive. Next time I'll try using plastisol instead of the waterbased.



Ever so slightly NSFW photo after the jump