Girl and Crab now available for sale!
Each of these 20 prints were silkscreened by hand by Erika Moen with magenta ink onto lush Arches paper.
Until May 16th, ALL orders from my store come with a free minicomic.
For one week (May 8-16, 2012), I am giving away a free minicomic / screenprint with every purchase in my store!
-EVERY order will come with a free copy of #IsawU, the minicomic Brendan Adkins and I made last month.
-A Free Jellyfish Mini-Screenprint (while supplies last) will come with every Super Pack order. These hand-pulled silkscreen prints are around 8.5″ x 8.5″, though sizes will vary, and are in a limited edition of 30.
Plus I am releasing two new screenprints!
The Silver Jellyfish is a limited edition print of 30 copies that is silver ink on deep indigo blue 10″ x 10″ Canson paper, while the Girl and Crab is a limited edition of 20 prints that is magenta ink on 11.5″ x 15″ Arches paper.
Remember, the freebies only last from May 8-16, 2012 (or while supplies last, in the case of the screenprint). Hope you enjoy!
Octopus Lady in Profile screenprint.
Yes, at last I can reveal my newest screenprint, the Octopus Lady in Profile!
This is a limited edition run of 20 hand pulled screenprints that I will be debuting at table B-8 during the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend in Portland, OR.
Click through to see behind-the-scenes photos of me screenprinting this image!
Sunday Afternoon Silkscreening on Flickr.
Many thanks to Joanna for not only letting me use her sweet silkscreen basement studio, but for also making this recording of me in the process of putting that studio to use.
This print will be debuted April 28th at the Stumptown Comics Fest this year at table B-8 :)
Octopus mask I did as a commission for Halloween two years ago for Erika Moen.
This is hanging on my wall and is one of my prized possessions. Can you believe it is ALL PAPER with some gorgeous painting on it?? It is surprisingly light while still being sturdy and, of course, easy to wear!
Y’all should follow the hell out of phillipvaldez because he is a WIZARD at papercraft.
Preliminary Concept Sketches for a Future Painting.
You can follow the evolution of my thinking, with the reference sketch on the far left followed by my smaller thumbnail sketches that are lined up chronologically. I started much more literally, thinking I could use an ocotopus as a decorative hairpiece, like the one the Principessa wears, (You can see how I originally was going to have tentacles flowing down her back to mimic the rope of hair in the original painting) but then my sketches evolved into her head actually growing its own tentacles.
Read and see more about my inspirations and how I reinterpret them into my paintings here.
Click the link to see the steps I took in creating this custom tattoo design for my client!
It… it goes without saying that this is a custom tattoo design made just for the commissioner so you would be a total dickbag to copy this drawing for your own use, right? You’re all smart, decent people, I don’t need to tell you that.
Oh my goodness, out of the 16 screen prints I made and yesterday put up for sale, I only have two left today!
Limited edition of 16 hand-pulled screen prints by Erika Moen.
10” x 10”, silver ink on indigo blue 98lb, acid free, Canson paper
The edition number, title, year, and artist’s signature is hand written down in peach colored pencil along a bottom edge of each print.
Would you like to own one of the final two? Then click’a right here’a.
Hey! I finally managed to pull 16 decent screen prints of this image! And I wrote about the process of making them! And you can even buy one of those 16 prints!
AMAZING.
-Blog post about how I made this, from the creation of the design to actually getting it printed.
-Oh man, you can totally buy one of these! There’s only 16!
