These cards were pretty popular at the Portland Zine Symposium and I’ve got a bunch left, so I put them up on Etsy for cheap! Each one-color print was hand-pulled onto a 3″ by 6″ piece of 230# black paper. Let that special zinester, or self-published comic artist in your life know just how much you care for them, as much as your long reach stapler…

As you probably know from my post a week or so ago, this print is also available in t-shirt format, but I still need to take some better pictures and figure out the best venue in which to sell them, but hopefully they’ll be up for sale tomorrow, somewhere. The shirts come in unisex sizes S-2X (printed on Gildan, usually runs a little bit big), in both light blue and bright green, and with or without the text, and they’ll only be $12. If you’re really interested in a shirt, feel free to email me before I put them up for sale and we can work something out.

Here’s a sneak peek of some shirts I’m making up for the Portland Zine Symposium this weekend, and beyond. More on these, in a different color and a variant, tomorrow, but I’m waiting for the ink to dry so I can pull another run so I thought I’d show off.

If you don’t get it, here’s a hint…

If you still don’t get it, you’re probably not a self-publisher, and you’re not my intended market, so don’t worry about it.

That’s a good question, you, and the answer is A LOT; here’s just a taste. These guys above are a one color print (white ink on black paper) for a secret thing that will get far less secret in the coming week.

OK, here’s another peek, the covers for my secret thing, it’s called Whoa, Dang! but that’s all I can say right now.

So I ended up selling out my entire (92) first run of Mustaches: For Fun And Profit in just over three months, so I sort of figured I should print up a second run. Unlike the first, which actually had a hand-cut felt moustache glued on the front of each cover, these will just be two-color screenprint, and will be back up for sale soon.

I’ve also printed a second run of Business Casual, a four-color cover for an upcoming RCC anthology, and I’m about to print on some baseball cards for Whoa, Dang! too. That’s right, baseball cards.

This “Stache Shark” is by request of one of my LiveJournal friends, and I was happy to oblige. There are only two days left of shark week, and I’ve realized I haven’t posted the link to the Flickr group since day one, so go see more sharks!

Speaking of sea creatures, I’ve been doing a lot of screenprinting lately. This octopus is an experimental, 7-color print, which is the most colors I’ve ever put down on one piece before. I wanted to do a multi-color print without using a computer at all, just using ink to draw my positives on mylar, and I wouldn’t decide what the next layer would be until I printed the previous layer. I had printed three colors before my roommate recommended the octopus idea. I want to do more prints like this soon, but maybe a few less colors and slightly more planned out. I’ll be putting these up in my Etsy shop for cheap later today, along with some other newer things. Might be open for trades too if anyone wants one.

Here’s my Shark Week shark from yesterday, I was out all day so I didn’t get a chance to post it. Today’s will post later today.

Here’s the second new screenprint that I’ll be debuting tomorrow at the opening of Connected. Each two-color print in the limited edition of 26 was hand-pulled onto a 8.75″ by 18″ piece of 120 lb. paper. These will be available for purchase after my show.

As a last reminder for those of you in the Portland area: the opening reception for Connected is tomorrow night, Friday, June 6th at Skeleton Key Tattoo (1729 SE Hawthorne). The show kicks off at 7pm, and I’d love to see you there.

Along with the 34 pieces that make up Connected (see previous post), I’ve printed two new screenprints based on two of my favorite pieces from the show. Each two-color print in the limited edition of 50 was hand-pulled onto a 6″ by 18″ piece of 120 lb. paper. These will be available for purchase after my show. Check back tomorrow for the second print.

As I’ve mentioned before, I took an etching and lithography class this last semester at school. Well, the semester’s over so I rounded up all of my prints and took some time to scan them all in so I could finally post them. All of these, and more, are for sale in my Etsy store: radrobot.etsy.com.

Ghost Bomb is a sugar lift etching. The red is brushed on each one by hand before I printed the plate.

This sugar lift etching is sort of an American astronaut companion piece to this Russian cosmonaut linocut I did a while ago, but with more guts.

A one-off print with smeared red ink.

A single test print I pulled before working into the plate more. Photocopy transfered aquatint.

This is what the above image turned into.

My first, and so far only, lithographic print. It’s a mummy that I pulled from a sketchbook page that I think I posted a few weeks ago.

A little monster print.

Another tiny print, I think I posted this months ago but I printed a few more. An accidental collaboration with my roommate. She scrapped this tiny plate with the feathers already etched into it, I picked it out of the scrap heap and added the dodo bird and the lettering.

I hope you’ve enjoyed all of my prints, I have some others planned for the summer, so watch out.

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Tiny prints are great! I am going to print a small edition of these in a different color soon, but I just found two test prints in burnt sienna laying around, so I thought why not sell them super cheap on Etsy? I also just put up my Beans, and Howdy prints, as well as some other paintings.

The image size on these is only 1″ by 3.25″ and each is printed on a heavy printmaking paper. There are only two available in this color, so act quick if you like it! (I scanned this print before signing and numbering both, in case you’re curious)

I said I’d post pictures of my printing process of the “Beans” print I posted late last week, so here it goes. Color one exposed, washed out, and drying.

Color two being exposed.

And finally the third color.

All three screens ready to print!

First color drying on my drying rack, aka my bed.

Ready to print color two, and a refreshment.

Second color done!

Third and final color, mid-print session.

All done and drying.

Stacked up, ready to be cut down, then signed and numbered.

If anyone’s curious, these will probably be for sale here and on Etsy by the end of the week.